Often they do this because their car is barely limping along and they are trying to make it to the next exit.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
It’s usually a complex crowd effect created by many participants trying to maneuver among each other in slightly disperate ways.
In Portland OR, it really is because some dingbat slowed down to 20 MPH on the interstate for literally no fucking reason at all.
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
This driver is distinct from that driver. We definitely have those too, and they have my sympathies. But this driver is the one who just thinks to themself that it would be nice to go slow for a while, on a lark. Or they don’t think at all and in that brief 15 seconds of brain death their nerves stop sending signals to their foot to press the gas.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Taking I-5 into Vancouver from Portland is always horrific. Once you get over the bridge it always clears right up! A big part of that is all the on ramps. There’s so many of them! So everybody is having to make way every 10 feet for someone merging in.
It’s horrendous.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Yeah they could probably stand to lose the more southern of the two ramp sets at Delta Park, feels very extra and overall unhelpful. Of course ODOT’s solution, beyond replacing the bridge, is to widen I-5 south of the bridge - Which anyone with a brain and 50 years of highway traffic studies can tell us would directly contribute to worsening the problem.