merge in turn 1543It depends upon how many cars are merging does it not? Let me stress once more that I...
What's the viola for? Playing a few Žtudes to pbutt the time in the queue?
merge in turn 1542JNugent Let's try this from a very basic level. Night time = no vehicles (or very few) = no slow moving...
Not so.
This has been argued out here several times in the (recent) past, and one of the factors that never gets taken into account by the "move into the left lane 10 miles before the restriction" crew is that the further the queue extends back along a single lane, the higher the probability that it will foul earlier junctions with the road and therefore baulk and delay vehicles which aren't even going towards the restriction.
An example... near where I live, until about a year go, there were some long-term road-works on a dual carriageway (not a motorway style d-c). The Highways Agency (or perhaps the contractors) put up several signs saying "Use Both Lanes" and "Merge In Turn". This may have been because the constriction was about 400 yards from a junction with a "more major" route and it was not desirable for a single lane of traffic to back-up from the roadworks towards the (roundabout) junction with that other route. Needless to say, whilst some drivers took the advice seriously, many others took the "dog in the manger" atbreastude and forced a single lane of traffic (by white-line straddling). The inevitable result was that traffic backed up every evening, right across the roundabout at the junction before the roadworks, and traffic on that major route was blocked from getting onto the roundabout to access the (clear) stretch of road opposite them.
Wouldn't it have been better to merge in turn at the pinchpoint, reduce the length of the queue by half, and not block the road at that roundabout for people not even going the same way?
