People who come to a complete stop in merging lanes

[Anonymous]

Yes the inability for some here to merge makes me rage.

[Anonymous]

What about people on a side road who zoom forward toward a main road and then slam on the brakes at the intersection? This drives me crazy when I’m on the main road (with no stop) and drivers do this on the side roads. I guess they think it saves one, but do they realize their behavior just makes me have a heart attack and slow down, thereby causing them to have to wait longer to turn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about people on a side road who zoom forward toward a main road and then slam on the brakes at the intersection? This drives me crazy when I’m on the main road (with no stop) and drivers do this on the side roads. I guess they think it saves TIME, but do they realize their behavior just makes me have a heart attack and slow down, thereby causing them to have to wait longer to turn?

[Anonymous]

At the end of the day OP, DMV drivers are just the absolute worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes the inability for some here to merge makes me rage.

This! It's just not that hard.

[Anonymous]

With a kid in Drivers Ed, I have a newfound patience for all drivers, and hope people have them for my child. Maybe it was a new driver, who is still learning how to navigate these challenging and busy DC/VA/MD roadways.

I keep telling my child that my anxiety is NOT about their driving, but about all of those idiots around them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day OP, DMV drivers are just the absolute worst.

tourists in florida....all logic goes out the window.

watching people stop in a merge lane is mindnumbingly stupid. honeslty I have passed people stopped in the merge lane by using the shoulder and getting up to speed intime to safely merge with traffic.

I'm not driving a sportscar, but you just gotta push the GO pedal on the right to the floor, get the little hampsters running and make it work. now I'm not saying that you drop in to a 60mph highway doing 35. but going from a dead stop halfway down the merge to try to get up to speed is bad news.

[Anonymous]

I agree it’s dangerous.

People in the right lane should slow down, move left, and allow mergers in, and people merging should accelerate and merge.

But since the people in the first group usually don’t, around here, do what they’re supposed to do, mergers sometimes have no choice, or have been conditioned to stop after being refused entry into traffic one too many times.

The real problem is the egotistical and aggressive drivers who act like they can’t let anyone else get in front of them—it’s their road, damnit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you do this? It makes me hate you. I don’t want to hate you.

Why? Because, for whatever reason, I can't continue moving forward safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you do this? It makes me hate you. I don’t want to hate you.

Why? Because, for whatever reason, I can't continue moving forward safely.

+1

Also so many people around here seem to think every "yield" sign must have a merge zone even when there isn't any merge zone. The number of times I've had people lay on the horn when I was at a no merge zone on ramp to GW Parkway or the on ramp to Duke Street at Van Dorn is enough to make me crack a molar. You think I'm sitting here waiting for a break in traffic for funsies?

[Anonymous]

What makes me rage more are the drivers that ARE ALREADY ON THE MAIN ROAD but use long merge lanes to jump of the the slower main road and spped ahead of 7-8 cars only to merge right back into the road. When I see people doing this in my mirror I often won't let them merge back in easily because the merge lanes are for cars ENTERING the roadway a-holes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you do this? It makes me hate you. I don’t want to hate you.

Why? Because, for whatever reason, I can't continue moving forward safely.

+1

Also so many people around here seem to think every "yield" sign must have a merge zone even when there isn't any merge zone. The number of times I've had people lay on the horn when I was at a no merge zone on ramp to GW Parkway or the on ramp to Duke Street at Van Dorn is enough to make me crack a molar. You think I'm sitting here waiting for a break in traffic for funsies?

I guess your reading comprehension is as good as your driving. OP said aside from no merge zones.

You should try driving school if you have so much trouble dealing with traffic and get that stressed over it. If you improve your skills you will improve your confidence and have a better experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree it’s dangerous.

People in the right lane should slow down...

No, no, no! If you are on the main road, please don't slow down to let someone in. You have the right of way; take it. If I am merging in, I want you moving at the highway speed so that I can time my own entrance. slowing down to let me in is a major hazard to everyone in the road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What makes me rage more are the drivers that ARE ALREADY ON THE MAIN ROAD but use long merge lanes to jump of the the slower main road and spped ahead of 7-8 cars only to merge right back into the road. When I see people doing this in my mirror I often won't let them merge back in easily because the merge lanes are for cars ENTERING the roadway a-holes!

OH I HATE THIS! Happens on the inner loop all the time where traffic from the Rockville Pike merges in on the left. It's a very long merge lane and people hop into it all the time to get ahead of traffic. Makes me ragey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you do this? It makes me hate you. I don’t want to hate you.

Why? Because, for whatever reason, I can't continue moving forward safely.

+1

Also so many people around here seem to think every "yield" sign must have a merge zone even when there isn't any merge zone. The number of times I've had people lay on the horn when I was at a no merge zone on ramp to GW Parkway or the on ramp to Duke Street at Van Dorn is enough to make me crack a molar. You think I'm sitting here waiting for a break in traffic for funsies?

I guess your reading comprehension is as good as your driving. OP said aside from no merge zones.

You should try driving school if you have so much trouble dealing with traffic and get that stressed over it. If you improve your skills you will improve your confidence and have a better experience.

My reading comprehension is just fine, thanks though. My issue is many people around here think there are merge zones when there aren't so OPs narrative that this was a situation with a merge zone is, to me, unreliable at best. And no driving school is going to tell me to gun it into traffic with no merge zone just because the dingleberry behind me is honking.

You can sit there and stay mad.