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10/28/2010 6:26:07 PM

iop1

10/28/2010 6:28:52 PM

I don't get people who speed up just to make sure someone can't merge when traffic is bad. Like that one car getting ahead of you is going to dramatically affect your arrival time

10/28/2010 6:29:16 PM

it's the people who know the lane is ending...and still try to scoot around everyone (by getting in the lane that ends) when traffic is bad. they piss me off

that's the only time i'll tailgate a car.

[Edited on October 28, 2010 at 6:31 PM. Reason : ]

10/28/2010 6:31:33 PM

^ i do that when i'm on a motorcycle.

10/28/2010 6:36:32 PM

from the road rage thread:

10/28/2010 6:37:24 PM

^^^ they too are douches.

[Edited on October 28, 2010 at 6:38 PM. Reason : i]

10/28/2010 6:37:48 PM

^^^^ funny enough, the only way to defeat this is to have both lanes filled in with cars so there isn't an empty lane for people to pass on

the cure is the disease

[Edited on October 28, 2010 at 6:39 PM. Reason : .]

10/28/2010 6:38:37 PM

[Edited on October 28, 2010 at 6:50 PM. Reason : sigh zipper Ø]

10/28/2010 6:50:01 PM

^x 4

who drew that?

10/28/2010 6:53:35 PM

10/28/2010 7:05:59 PM

^^ME

10/28/2010 7:09:27 PM

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"I don't get people who speed up just to make sure someone can't merge when traffic is bad. Like that one car getting ahead of you is going to dramatically affect your arrival time"

but it does when several people do it

10/28/2010 7:30:59 PM

10/28/2010 9:22:38 PM

^ it's not the act, it's the intention. most of the time it's not the guy that's concerned with traffic flow, it's the jackass in the miata with the fart can in too big of a fucking hurry to wait his turn.

10/28/2010 9:30:33 PM

That guy IS the asshole.

10/28/2010 9:31:49 PM

get on a bus, thats more productive





the lanes have to stay full til the pinch point for everyone to feel like stuff is fair. but if everyone is getting over early, the guy in question is an asshole if he's the only one in his lane.

10/28/2010 9:32:23 PM

the guy is less of an asshole if he's traveling at the same speed as people in the full lane. the second he starts speeding, he's an asshole, because then he's trying to "beat" traffic

10/28/2010 9:34:52 PM

^^^I'm the asshole who drives to the head of the traffic and cuts in.


I'm the smart asshole that doesn't enjoy wasting his valuable time behind dumbasses.

10/28/2010 9:49:54 PM

You're also the reason why it backs up so bad.

10/28/2010 9:55:08 PM

The thing that sucks is when there's absolutely no warning that the lane is going to end, just two lanes then BAM! one lane.

10/28/2010 9:57:41 PM

pretty much.


I still win, I could care less about everyone else.

If everyone else used common sense, I wouldn't be able to travel ahead of everyone because nobody would let me in.

But you can always count on one nice guy to let you in.

10/28/2010 9:58:32 PM

fuck etiquette

85% of the fuckers in that lane know its ending. im not letting you over

10/28/2010 9:59:07 PM

I won't let the asshole in.

10/28/2010 9:59:39 PM

Yeh, but wouldn't it make your day when the nice guy in front of you lets me in without your permission?


I bet you'd get steamy hot! wouldn't you

10/28/2010 10:02:49 PM

Can't really swing it in a car but I appreciate it when 18 wheelers provide the block by driving down the middle of the road.

10/28/2010 10:03:55 PM

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"LET THE ASSHOLE"

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"GET STEAMY HOT"

10/28/2010 10:04:10 PM

^
lol, we know what you wanna merge....

10/28/2010 10:06:35 PM

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"DRIVING DOWN THE MIDDLE"

10/28/2010 10:07:52 PM

People who merge at the last second require all the traffic to stop to let them in. This stops all traffic while if everyone was in the single lane they would continue moving at a slow steady rate. Late mergers who force people to stop to let them in should be blown off the road with a roof mounted rocket launcher.

10/28/2010 10:15:53 PM

Are we still assholes if we say "Thank you?"

10/28/2010 10:19:35 PM

I like how there is a concrete barrier at the N. Harrison entrance to I-40 right now. I know it's only temporary, but that thing fucking rules. The other day there was like a 5 car gap behind my truck and some dumb bitch in a Lexus IS250 still blew past me and then turned her signal on to tell me it was my time to brake and let her pussy sedan be placed in front of me. I just kept it tight on the car in front of me until she almost wrecked her shit into the barrier and pulled in behind me.

That anecdote pretty much sums up my feelings on merge etiquette.

10/28/2010 10:31:16 PM

i have power issue's, so i never will let someone in front of me because i feel like i am giving them all the power

10/28/2010 10:44:59 PM

i have power issue is

10/28/2010 10:50:44 PM

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"i have power issue's, so i never will let someone in front of me because i feel like i am giving them all the power"

don't drive in nyc then.

10/28/2010 11:15:42 PM

We gotta zipper, and we need a PSA about the importance of using both lanes and zippering.

The reason I don't get in the other lane isn't cause I'm worried people will think I'm a jerk. It's cause I'm worried nobody will let me in (zipper). So I end up in the "proper" lane, pissed about all the "jerks" who are speeding past me (even though I know they're doing the correct thing).

I do often wonder whether or not construction managers are necessarily informed by civil engineers when it comes to closing down a lane and whatnot.

10/28/2010 11:34:21 PM

man people are really defensive and insecure in traffic

all the ape social behavior flourishes then

10/28/2010 11:47:27 PM

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"I end up ... pissed about all the "jerks" who are speeding past me (even though I know they're doing the correct thing)."

BridgetSPK gets it.



^
"An ape is any member of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates, including humans"

(We are apes.)


[Edited on October 28, 2010 at 11:53 PM. Reason : ]

10/28/2010 11:49:58 PM

another good discussion question... why can't the pause the i40 lane closure for like an hour after the game so that shit doesn't get backed up.

also fuck RPD for putting a roadblock at gorman/i40, cheap shit.

10/29/2010 12:43:33 AM

person 2 miles back slams on brakes for no fucking reason

10/29/2010 1:15:55 AM

rawrawrawr

I like my two vehicles. I'm on my bike 90% of the time and can zip in and out of traffic easily without causing people to significantly alter course, cuts waaay back on delay times. My other one is a full-ton dually and I pretty much just do what I want.

The trick is I'm not an asshole about it though. I follow the rules, wait my turn, let people in, drive assertively to help balance out the defensive and thickheaded slugs that cause jams in the first place. I only do that kind of stuff when some jackass decides his time is more important than mine and I will remind him that a 3-ton diesel would incur very little damage while displacing his cute little jeep liberty.



[Edited on October 29, 2010 at 1:53 AM. Reason : I'm from Texas, after all.]

10/29/2010 1:50:54 AM

As a subset of this situation, an asshole doing this on an on-ramp to the interstate the other day nearly took me out on my motorcycle. I'm in the left lane, less than a car length behind the car in front of me, plenty of room behind me, and he flies up in the right lane as it turns into the shoulder and edges into my lane. Talking on his goddamn cellphone the whole time

The second you drive on the shoulder, and/or the second you edge your way into a lane in front of a vehicle in the target lane where there's no room, with plenty of room behind, you are a raging asshole. Especially when talking on your cellphone. Especially when endangering a bike.

10/29/2010 8:05:22 AM

Human beings are far too selfish and dumb for the "zipper" traffic pattern to work. Also, its rarely necessary outside of downtown streets. Usually its just some jerk zooming up the ending lane because he/she has a compulsion to get ahead of other cars.

10/29/2010 9:01:31 AM

durble purst

[Edited on October 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM. Reason : .]

10/29/2010 9:01:31 AM

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"The reason I don't get in the other lane isn't cause I'm worried people will think I'm a jerk. It's cause I'm worried nobody will let me in (zipper)."

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"So I end up in the "proper" lane, pissed about all the "jerks" who are speeding past me (even though I know they're doing the correct thing). "

That doesn't sound like zippering if they're all passing you.








[Edited on October 29, 2010 at 9:22 AM. Reason : []

10/29/2010 9:14:33 AM

When I lived in DC it seems like people had the zipper thing down pretty good. Some people called it the Washington Weave. And by some people I mean me.

10/29/2010 9:43:59 AM

Jerk toward other lane, jerk back as cars behind slam on brakes, ease in to newly created opening in traffic, profit.

10/29/2010 10:41:20 AM

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"The second you drive on the shoulder, and/or the second you edge your way into a lane in front of a vehicle in the target lane where there's no room, with plenty of room behind, you are a raging asshole."

Yeah...that was pretty much my point. I gladly let people in for the first 2/3 of the entrance ramp or so, but there's always some jackass who willingly passes several spots that he could have "zippered in" only to get to the end of the line and try to force his way in. That guy is a jackass.

10/29/2010 12:01:35 PM

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"I gladly let people in for the first 2/3 of the entrance ramp or so, but there's always some jackass who willingly passes several spots that he could have "zippered in" only to get to the end of the line and try to force his way in. That guy is a jackass."

Agreed.

Though I was a dumbass on the Beltline yesterday and forgot the leftmost lane after Jones Franklin ends, so I looked like that jackass on accident

10/29/2010 12:59:42 PM

^ I don't know how to explain it, but I always feel like I can tell when someone has an "Oops" versus a "I"m going to be a jackass" moment. For one thing, "oops" usually involves a signal coming on, "jackass" usually doesn't

10/29/2010 1:50:28 PM