I-66 and a major accident everyday. Holy F! Learn to drive!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with zipper merging in *light* traffic is that it creates an unnecessary bottleneck that wouldn’t occur if everyone early-merged instead.

You cannot deny that.

In light traffic bottlenecks aren’t an issue.

So many inept drivers in this area. Can’t even handle merging…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IMO more enforcement will help.

On a Saturday - pull over 10 cars at a time on the left lane.

You will send big message and people will slow down.

Yes, please pull over more of those people stuck in the left lane. Idiots don’t know how to change lanes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, problem with 66 is it takes you out to places where too many cousins are also husband and wife. Need to get that app that they have in Iceland.

What’s the app they have in Iceland?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is the road itself. Badly designed. Also, unfinished in places. There is one spot where the far right lane abruptly ends - no warning. I nearly got squished by a massive truck because the lane just ends and there is a wall ...

Where is this? I am a cruiser so need to know to avoid ending up in the same situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People drive too aggressively now. Everything is a trigger. Most things are taken as you being a jerk.


Side note, I hate when people do not do the zipper effect when merging. They will literally inch up to the bumper to not you in. Is being polite by letting one car in front of you going to ruin your day?

If you drive on the shoulder to "zipper" in or had notice from afar that the lane is merging but you want to zoom ahead and cut everyone else off, that's a no dawg

When lanes are ending, everyone should stay in their lane until they merge at the time of the lane ending. Encouraging people to get over way beforehand makes traffic worse. Use the lanes and then every other car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People drive too aggressively now. Everything is a trigger. Most things are taken as you being a jerk.


Side note, I hate when people do not do the zipper effect when merging. They will literally inch up to the bumper to not you in. Is being polite by letting one car in front of you going to ruin your day?

If you drive on the shoulder to "zipper" in or had notice from afar that the lane is merging but you want to zoom ahead and cut everyone else off, that's a no dawg

When lanes are ending, everyone should stay in their lane until they merge at the time of the lane ending. Encouraging people to get over way beforehand makes traffic worse. Use the lanes and then every other car.

Yes but everyone is staying their lane. No one is in the merge lane. As you probably know, no one likes to drive in the right lane. Are you suggesting people move over to the merge lane just to zipper even if they weren't in the merge lane before?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People drive too aggressively now. Everything is a trigger. Most things are taken as you being a jerk.


Side note, I hate when people do not do the zipper effect when merging. They will literally inch up to the bumper to not you in. Is being polite by letting one car in front of you going to ruin your day?

If you drive on the shoulder to "zipper" in or had notice from afar that the lane is merging but you want to zoom ahead and cut everyone else off, that's a no dawg

When lanes are ending, everyone should stay in their lane until they merge at the time of the lane ending. Encouraging people to get over way beforehand makes traffic worse. Use the lanes and then every other car.

Yes but everyone is staying their lane. No one is in the merge lane. As you probably know, no one likes to drive in the right lane. Are you suggesting people move over to the merge lane just to zipper even if they weren't in the merge lane before?

Very common on 495.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People drive too aggressively now. Everything is a trigger. Most things are taken as you being a jerk.


Side note, I hate when people do not do the zipper effect when merging. They will literally inch up to the bumper to not you in. Is being polite by letting one car in front of you going to ruin your day?

If you drive on the shoulder to "zipper" in or had notice from afar that the lane is merging but you want to zoom ahead and cut everyone else off, that's a no dawg

When lanes are ending, everyone should stay in their lane until they merge at the time of the lane ending. Encouraging people to get over way beforehand makes traffic worse. Use the lanes and then every other car.

Yes but everyone is staying their lane. No one is in the merge lane. As you probably know, no one likes to drive in the right lane. Are you suggesting people move over to the merge lane just to zipper even if they weren't in the merge lane before?

Do you mean an on-ramp merge lane? The people entering the highway should go to the end to the lane and zipper merge.

If it's not an on-ramp or exit lane, then everyone should obviously be in the right lane unless they are passing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People drive too aggressively now. Everything is a trigger. Most things are taken as you being a jerk.


Side note, I hate when people do not do the zipper effect when merging. They will literally inch up to the bumper to not you in. Is being polite by letting one car in front of you going to ruin your day?

If you drive on the shoulder to "zipper" in or had notice from afar that the lane is merging but you want to zoom ahead and cut everyone else off, that's a no dawg

When lanes are ending, everyone should stay in their lane until they merge at the time of the lane ending. Encouraging people to get over way beforehand makes traffic worse. Use the lanes and then every other car.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyday is another major accident. Today at at 3:45pm going west someone managed to go over the the speed limit and flip their car. Thanks. losers.

did you see that in real time and you're certain speeding was the only factor for the incident? you'd better be 100% certain to call in an accident losers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyday is another major accident. Today at at 3:45pm going west someone managed to go over the the speed limit and flip their car. Thanks. losers.

did you see that in real time and you're certain speeding was the only factor for the incident? you'd better be 100% certain to call in an accident losers

Probably had to weave around because some selfish prick was going slow in the left lane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyday is another major accident. Today at at 3:45pm going west someone managed to go over the the speed limit and flip their car. Thanks. losers.

did you see that in real time and you're certain speeding was the only factor for the incident? you'd better be 100% certain to call in an accident losers

Probably had to weave around because some selfish prick was going slow in the left lane.

How fast do you go in left lane?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyday is another major accident. Today at at 3:45pm going west someone managed to go over the the speed limit and flip their car. Thanks. losers.

did you see that in real time and you're certain speeding was the only factor for the incident? you'd better be 100% certain to call in an accident losers

Probably had to weave around because some selfish prick was going slow in the left lane.

How fast do you go in left lane?

Enough to pass you and then move back to the right lane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyday is another major accident. Today at at 3:45pm going west someone managed to go over the the speed limit and flip their car. Thanks. losers.

did you see that in real time and you're certain speeding was the only factor for the incident? you'd better be 100% certain to call in an accident losers

Probably had to weave around because some selfish prick was going slow in the left lane.

How fast do you go in left lane?

Enough to pass you and then move back to the right lane.

How fast do you go in that right lane?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People drive too aggressively now. Everything is a trigger. Most things are taken as you being a jerk.


Side note, I hate when people do not do the zipper effect when merging. They will literally inch up to the bumper to not you in. Is being polite by letting one car in front of you going to ruin your day?

If you drive on the shoulder to "zipper" in or had notice from afar that the lane is merging but you want to zoom ahead and cut everyone else off, that's a no dawg

When lanes are ending, everyone should stay in their lane until they merge at the time of the lane ending. Encouraging people to get over way beforehand makes traffic worse. Use the lanes and then every other car.

No one does that because they run out of lane and if people don’t let them merge then they have to STOP. which makes merging even harder. So people merge early to have margin

In general, you should merge when there are no longer any cars in front of you in your merge lane — travel in parallel with the other lane for a spell signal that you are merging and they will generally let you in within one or two cars.

Instead zipping down the empty merge past 40 cars will engender a lot of road rage and be more disruptive to the merge.

Does that traffic study model the effect of bad behavior of one or two and how it propagates.