Not really. The traffic has to squeeze through the same number of lanes at some point. That’s the whole damn point everyone is missing who’s defending these assholes.
You’re not helping by increasing traffic density beyond comfortable levels. Period. Ever.
That’s why rolling stops happen on freeways even without traffic accidents or lane closures. Density determines the speed people feel safe going. That is never bumper to bumper at highway speeds.
Not even the psychos in San Jose and LA go highway speeds when it’s as dense as these last-second merging assholes make it.
pjwestin@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I think you mean congestion. Gridlock is when cars attempt to cross an intersection during a green light even though there is too much traffic to pass completely, leaving them stranded mid-intersection when the light turns red, thereby blocking the perpendicular traffic from crossing the intersection when their light turns green (literally locking the grid).
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
That’s blocking the box, gridlock is just bumper to bumper traffic in any condition.
pjwestin@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
No, that’s definitely gridlock, blocking the box is just another name for it.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
If there is a specific term, why continue to use the dated term that also means something else?