This only works best if Everyone does it

[j-c-c-62]

Zipper merge:
MSN
It's not hard to do

 

[YY1]

I get it.
Sometimes they guy in front of me gets it.
The problem is that all the people in the "affected lane" that need to merge out of it don't get it and don't want to get it.
They do however, hope that the rest of us get it, so that they can continue to cheat their way in.

 

[YY1]

I let in ONE CAR.
ONE.

...and If I see that car has tried to bypass the merge, I don't let it in, if I can help it.

 

[j-c-c-62]

I let in ONE CAR.
ONE.

...and If I see that car has tried to bypass the merge, I don't let it in, if I can help it.

I agree, however two things still hold true, there will always be the driver that wants to buck the system be an A******* and follow the car in front, rather than zipper, and the fact it's only one car extra, nothing to get bent over, IMO

 

[Cranky]

Spent a LOT of years going to work and crossing the Houston Ship Channel using 2 lane tunnels where the zipper method was used but yeah, there was always someone that didn't want to do it. I usually forced the issue back then but probably wouldn't do it today. Too many crazies living around here these days....

 

[Coelacanth]

Out of countless times I've been through this, seeing idiots in front of me letting in idiots who wanted to cut their way in...I can only recall maybe 2 or 3 times when the cars ahead of me recognized the idiocy and tightened their gaps, leaving the idiots stranded for a while. Sadly, this doesn't happen NEARLY enough...

 

[eldubb440]

just ride the shoulder and pass everyone

 

[toolmanmike]

just ride the shoulder and pass everyone

 

[ct71rr]

I let in ONE CAR.
ONE.

...and If I see that car has tried to bypass the merge, I don't let it in, if I can help it.

I say this to my wife every time we run into traffic! If everyone lets one person in, no issues!!

 

[dadsbee]

Left right.. left right... but common sense went out the window 40 years ago...

 

[j-c-c-62]

just ride the shoulder and pass everyone

Maybe Not.
Decades back I am driving in the perennial downtown 24/7 Miami traffic jam by the airport.
All lanes are full and at a crawl. Right Emergency Lane has a guard rail, and cars are zipping past all the standing traffic.
I am in the right lane being followed by a tanker truck. By me slightly encroaching into the emergency lane, me, the tanker and the guard rail bring all that bogus emergency traffic to a halt.
But I have to be careful with my speed, because if I a race too far ahead, cars will sneak between me and the tanker and cut us both off.
So, I am constantly having to watch the following tanker distance, the car in front of us, and the cars stuck in the emergency lane, who are not real happy. That goes on for a mile or so.
We approach an overpass, and the tanker driver sitting up high can see traffic much farther ahead than me.
Out of the blue, the tanker speeds up and effectively forces me into the emergency lane.
I keep driving alongside the tanker trying to figure out what is going on as we crested the overpass, and there sitting in the emergency lane is a stopped patrol car, motioning me to stop. License and registration please routine.
Obviously, he accused me of improper use of the emergency lane and passing cars.
It was probably hardest ticket I ever talked myself out of, and I did.
Bottom line, it's not worth it.

 

[WileE]

We call it "alternate feed". For a moment, I thought the thread was about everyone in the country sending me ONE DOLLAR.