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• AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wasn’t talking about traffic stopping, I was talking about the point at which the merge should take place

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  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Should take place? Sure. Does it have to happen there? No.

    The entire point is, if traffic is already slow, running up the closed lane to cram into already too full through-traffic IS NOT ZIPPER MERGING. It’s being an asshole further slowing traffic.

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    • AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you are zipper merging before the lane closes you are doing it incorrectly. In a proper merge, there is no space for someone to overtake along since the zipper occurs right at the point that the lane closure has been created (and is usually designed at for a multitude of reasons)

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      • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Completely wrong.

        Zipper merging is a merging technique. It doesn’t give a fuck where it happens. Period. Ever.

        What determines how many cars get through is ONLY determined by how many through-lanes there are and how fast traffic can flow. The morons flying up an empty closing lane just to cram into a lane that’s already slow or stopped, ARE NOT ZIPPER MERGING. Ever. They’re dipshits cutting in line. Period. Ever.

        They NEVER help solve congestion. For fuck’s sake, this is not a hard concept, but all you idiots apparently cannot even fathom why traffic slows down when a lane is GOING AWAY. Fuck, humanity is doomed if ya’ll are even remotely ‘average’ intelligence…

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