Merging
How do you merge? There’s a big “to-do” on the Seattle Times Rant and Rave column today. Read on:
“Drivers coming into traffic are supposed to drive to the end of the merge lane and then you are to alternate with the flow of traffic. If everyone in the region could simply learn this proper rule of the road driving around here would be a lot less aggravating!”
“As a former Bay Area, Calif., driver, the inability of Washington drivers to understand this concept is dumbfounding!”
“Seattle drivers are just too polite.”
“Perhaps we need to again publish proper merging principles in our media — just a thought!”
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This reminds me of the opening line to that great literary classic of the 80s, Less Than Zero: "People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles."
What about the Yield sign? I don’t think people around here know what it actually means. I’ve almost been hit six or seven times because I couldn’t get over to open up my lane for a freeway onramp that had a yield sign on it. I almost always try to get over because in my experience people barrel through a yield sign like it means nothing, but sometimes there’s a car in the other lane and then it looks like a it’s going to be Tony as the meat in a car sandwich, OUCH!