Are you a road warrior?

[Deleted member 35927]

On the A10 where it goes from 2 to 1 lane past east Herts and someone decided to straddle both lanes to stop others using the merge in turn lane.
Why do people do this .

 

[Arthur Wedge]

 

[GreiginFife]

On the A10 where it goes from 2 to 1 lane past east Herts and someone decided to straddle both lanes to stop others using the merge in turn lane.
Why do people do this .

Same reason they park on blind bends or in blind dips. Same reason they drive down one way systems the wrong way.

Some people are twats.

 

[Deleted member 35927]

Same reason they park on blind bends or in blind dips. Same reason they drive down one way systems the wrong way.

Some people are twats.

Yeah true enough. I drove up on to the central reservation and went round them

 

[IanM]

Martin Crane?

 

[Crow]

On the A10 where it goes from 2 to 1 lane past east Herts and someone decided to straddle both lanes to stop others using the merge in turn lane.
Why do people do this .

Because the twats in the outside lane don't merge in turn, they start merging long before they get to the end of the dual lanes and so the inside lane moves a lot more slowly.

 

[Swango1980]

Some people just have fragile egos I guess, and can't stand the fact another driver might actually use the outside lane and get ahead of them?

Same as nearside drivers, who will drive right up to the bumper of the car in front, to make it impossible for a driver in offside lane to merge. Even if they car in offside lane is already ahead of them.

No doubt there may be some offside drivers that are occasionally over aggressive and out of order. But in general, in my experience I find it is the behaviour of nearside drivers that present the biggest risks to drivers around them.

 

[Deleted member 35927]

Some people just have fragile egos I guess, and can't stand the fact another driver might actually use the outside lane and get ahead of them?

Same as nearside drivers, who will drive right up to the bumper of the car in front, to make it impossible for a driver in offside lane to merge. Even if they car in offside lane is already ahead of them.

No doubt there may be some offside drivers that are occasionally over aggressive and out of order. But in general, in my experience I find it is the behaviour of nearside drivers that present the biggest risks to drivers around them.

I'm always happy to let a car out or move over. I find the whole lane blocking thing really strange , with the amount of crazy on the road I think you're taking a risk deliberately blocking other road users. Although I may occasionally speed up if someone tries and undertake

 

[Don Barzini]

On the A10 where it goes from 2 to 1 lane past east Herts and someone decided to straddle both lanes to stop others using the merge in turn lane.
Why do people do this .

Because they don't understand basic rules of the road and are unfamiliar with the Highway Code.

 

[road2ruin]

Because they don't understand basic rules of the road and are unfamiliar with the Highway Code.

Yep, this.

Just back from a week in Cornwall and the A30 is a nightmare for this. The road signs clearly say that the lanes merge in a few hundred yards so immediately people start queuing in the nearside lane leading the outside lane clear. People then seem to get upset that drivers use the empty lane to drive a considerable distance and then merge in turn where asked. Just cannot understand why people then straddle both lanes to stop the outside lane when it's still 100 odd yards until the dual carriageway becomes single lane?!

 

[Slab]

There’re two recommendations on merge in turn, they both get stated on this topic and often ignored by those in the other camp

One is for slow stop/start traffic and one for free-flowing traffic. For the 1st it’s to use all lanes and merge at lane closure. For the 2nd you should merge early to keep traffic flowing… ta-da!

Problems crop up when something happens to quickly change merged free flowing traffic into stop/start traffic (often a ‘Q jumper’ leaving it too close to lane closure & cuts into free-flowing traffic, causing the free-flowing lane to brake / concertina / stop) Now it’s a line of cars who’d correctly merged for free-flowing but its stop/start traffic… then the Hero arrives on scene…

They see stop/start traffic and a lane not being used, there’s no reason not to use the empty lane merging safely at the lane closure but the folks who’d already correctly merged are narked at this lack of road manners. In no time the shenanigans start and no one wins

What should probably happen is when the merged free flowing traffic begins to slow, it should ‘un-merge’ into both lanes… No chance to Q jump and no point in blocking behaviour, everyone happy and getting through pinch point in roughly the order in which they arrived

 

[sunshine]

Straddling both lanes is a well known cure for a small penis. Repeated straddling over many years can stretch it by up to 2 inches.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

As with everything - if someone is a selfish person they will be a selfish driver

Most people will act with common sense and with awareness - merge in when it’s safe to do so and use common sense

 

[Voyager EMH]

On the A10 where it goes from 2 to 1 lane past east Herts and someone decided to straddle both lanes to stop others using the merge in turn lane.
Why do people do this .

Because they want to "win" the road race.

Next question?

 

[KenL]

On the A10 where it goes from 2 to 1 lane past east Herts and someone decided to straddle both lanes to stop others using the merge in turn lane.
Why do people do this .

It’s mainly big tough people in trucks that I’ve seen doing this.

 

[Deleted member 35927]

It’s mainly big tough people in trucks that I’ve seen doing this.

Yes seen a few of those