> Given the amount of traffic I naturally went ahead and got over into the right lane so I didn't get stuck in the 'idiot' line.
That's actually one of the biggest conundrum for civil engineers. At what distance to you warn drivers that their lane will be closing? When you have to slow 2 lanes of traffic to down to 1, to get past an obstacle, it is MUCH more efficient to have the two lanes both slow down and take turns merging immediately before the obstacle. However, due to human nature, everyone takes the position that those "in the know" should get into the open land AND block every merging vehicle from entering their lane. In high traffic times, this starts happening way before the first warning sign is visible.
Long story short, if everyone waited to change lanes until the merge there would be much less traffic congestion, BUT it will never happen. If you put the warning signs 10 miles out, you will create an even BIGGER traffic problem than warning them half a mile before the obstruction.
In a perfect world, people would stay in both lanes until the very end and take turns merging, but there's no changing human nature.
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