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Originally Posted by UFO
The 'zipper' merge is totally lost on US drivers, they just want to squeeze ahead of whomever they can. Plus, most drivers feel that a merge lane (where the lane ends) is their very own VIP lane where they can simply drive to the end of it and cut everyone else off.
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Originally Posted by mdm
A properly executed zipper merge involves driving to the end of the merge lane and doing the the zipper only there (but not beyond the end of the lane). If you merge earlier, unevitably someone from behind you will use up that empty space and pass you.
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I don't think that's what he's saying. In Houston, fuckers in the
travel lanes will whip over into the merge lane, speed past ten cars and cut back in. They do this because they think they just "won" ten contests between them and those other cars. The useless cops do absolutely nothing about this. I've actually seen a cop sitting in the wedge between the ramp and traffic, watching people do this.
Meanwhile morons who don't understand how to merge in will stop 1/3 of the way down the acceleration lane with their blinkers on, because they're afraid that if they go all the way to the end the assholes down there who don't want to let them back in will block them, and they're not up for the test of wills to see whether the assholes are willing to hit them (which some are). So you have a chaotic mix of assholes who shouldn't be in the acceleration lane in the first place driving onto the shoulder to get around morons who
should go to the end of the lane to merge in.
Houston is the stinking fungus infested taint of America.
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Originally Posted by mdm
My experience from DC area is that maybe 25% of drivers understand zipper merge. But as my friend used to say, "just south of DC the civilization ends", so we are under heavy influence of the leones (or dracones) ;-)
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I lived there for four years. I thought they did a pretty good job with zipper merges until a tourist made the mistake of venturing out in rush hour.