“Don’t accelerate up to highway speed on an entrance ramp and expect everyone on the highway to deal with you merging in at 40 mph.
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I disagree with ya in this one. I call the right lane the “get on-get off lane”. Don’t be in it unless you are getting on or off. Get in the middle lane or the fast lane. And stay out of the way.”
Wow I was going to go off on this one, then I saw who it was, so I’ll tone it down.
The merging driver should be moving close to the same speed as the traffic they are merging into at the bottom of the ramp. Especially if it’s busy, people have to use the right lane, so everyong “get[ting] in the middle lane or the fast lane” isn’t always feasible. Near rush hour, it’s completely impractical and downright dangerous.
If the merging driver doesn’t match speed, they force people to slow down behind them when they do merge. That “slowed down” area persists until traffic eases up significantly. This can — and does — cause accidents.
An accident might not happen right away. It might happen 10 minutes or more later. But if one does happen as a result of the “slowed down” area, the merger’s actions are the one that set up the conditions that caused it.
These accidents hurt and even kill people. The irony is that the slow merger won’t be there and probably won’t have any idea what they have caused. But the people hurt by the slow merger’s actions are still just as injured or dead.
Not joking. What someone is doing by merging into 55 or 60 mph traffic at 40 mph is VERY dangerous and really does get people hurt and killed.
I don’t really care. The reason we have to slow down to merge is because of the folks speeding along in that lane. I’d love to just get up to speed and be able to go, but it’s just not safe when the lane is busy.
You have to wait until you get an opening and then go, which leads to the stop and start behaviour.
This is why when you are getting to an exit, get out of the right lane, let the folks merging have a clear lane.