Alaira314 t1_its7tpw wrote on October 25, 2022 at 10:31 PM

Reply to comment by D0NNIENARCO in Maryland’s transportation department asks for public feedback on I-695/I-70 Interchange project by BmoreCityDOT

> I really wish they'd put a partition or bollards up along the first and last ~quarter mile of the 83/695 merge. > > Way too many assholes trying to ride the 83 exit lane then slam on the brakes and merge in at the last second.

I've had people on reddit(I want to say on this very sub) tell me that's how you do it in order to use the lanes to their full potential, and if you get in the slower lane "too early" then you're the one doing it wrong and fucking up traffic. 🙄 I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as "correct" driving, but rather a dozen different strategies that are all mutually exclusive and have everybody all pissed off at the "idiots"(ie, everyone else) who are doing it "wrong"(ie, not the way it works in their desired system).

Sugarbabedc t1_itsdjyn wrote on October 25, 2022 at 11:14 PM

Those people are dicks trying to excuse their shitty behavior.

If that's the way to do it, why the fuck would everyone else choose to spend an eternity sitting in the turn lane? Why would the correct way be blocking traffic for the lane next to the turn lane?

I rarely sit in rush these days so it's been a while but the last time someone tried to "cut to the front of the line" so to speak in front of me, I blocked him and flipped the bird tbh. I don't have much tolerance for people who believe their time and energy are more important than everyone else's.

thirdrm t1_itt6cn5 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 2:57 AM

It's literally in the driver's manual where people learn to drive published by the states.

tacsatduck t1_itv1p3l wrote on October 26, 2022 at 2:55 PM

Zipper merge when two lanes are combining or merging, great. That doesn't excuse people on 695 stopping the left hand lane on this multi-lane highway, because they want to drive up all the way to the point that exit 23A is Ying off before merging over, even though there is a really long solid-white line turning lane for a good distance before the turn. Every single morning back when I made that commute there would be stop and go traffic for all the different lanes on the highway because people were doing that.