Posted by JDseller on August 12, 2012 at 07:49:42 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: Re: OT Hwy Laws posted by 730d se on August 12, 2012 at 06:21:42:
730d se: the reason the semis block the merging lane is the idiots/drivers that are "special" and roar right down to the merge point rather than merge sooner. Most times on the free way system blocked lanes will be marked miles in advance. Do think the average car driver will merge anytime sooner than the last fifty feet???? Heck NO they are special!!! SO the ones that do merge early have to wait for the idiots the go "first". The semi drivers have agreed that the one blocking will be let back in the merge lane when then need too. It makes the traffic move faster because there are not fifty idiots waiting to merge at the merge point.
I was in PA on I-80 one time. They where rebuilding the entire east bound lane. You had to merge and cross and run two lane for miles. At the merge point there had been many accidents. Several fatalities. Idiots trying to merge too fast in the last fifty feet. Cutting the traffic off. The local state Police Captain put ten cars in the last mile. They wrote anyone a ticket that had not merged before the last distance. They wrote over 900 tickets in two days. The ticket was for improper lane changing. The local court had agreed in advance to not let any of the drivers out of the ticket. The ticket was for $175 each. It worked pretty well. They would crack down about once each month and the drivers seemed to remember how to merge a lot better. There was not another fatal accident at that merge point after that.
They did post signs miles back about when to merge and what the penalty would be. Still wrote a lot of tickets to the "special" people/drivers.
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