didds wrote:pje16 wrote:
Yeah
by those who think l they are too good to queue
I love squeezing them out if I get a chance
I'd say its most efficient use of the road system. if others want to just queue for several minutes and ignore 50% of the legal slip road provision that's their call.
we'll agree to disagree.
didds
Unfortunately many people share your attitude when arriving at a "road narrows" transition from several lanes to less (often 2 to 1), a good example being the dual carriage way A303 from the Boscombe roundabout towards Stonehenge.
Imagining every one else to be an unthinking idiot, they push along the outside lane past everyon who has realised the road narrows, then bully their way into the oher lane at the point odf intersection while loudly proclaiming their superiority and claiming "the highway Code says 'Zipper"".
They also fume when they come across someone who has taken the rest of the code into context and is maintaining their position opposite where the joined the queue, normally with a large gap to the rest of the 'bully 'lane ahead.
Three things happen when this occurs: one: The whole of both queues start to move faster as people no longer have to slow down as the bullies squee4ze into gaps instead of zippering, Two: generally someone realises you aren't pushing in and leaves a gap for you instead of squeezing you out, and Three, a statistically predictable idiot will try to overtake, banging his wheel with anger.
It would be nice if the Stonehenge delays were exclusively caused by bullying idiots, but alas they are supplemented by gawkers who slow right down to take a selfie, lorries who have to change down another gear avoiding a gawker and the tail back of traffic from the next roundabout where the bullies try to overtake even though the traffic is stationary down into Winterbourne Stoke (where there a really nice pub called the Bell right on the roadside!)