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Re: lack of courtesy Re: A Left Lane Laggard Wants to Know



Timothy J. Lee (timlee@netcom.com) wrote:
: Corey Alambar <corwyn> writes:
: |Maybe it's just me, but when I learned to drive, COURTESY was the key.  When
: |you were in the right in traffic and there was a line of merging traffic, you
: |let ONE car out in front of you, but then again, so did everyone else.  If
: |someone came up behind you, you moived right.  If there was merging on the
: |right and you had a clear lane to the left, you changed lans to let the people
: |merging, merge.
: |
: |You don't know HOW often I see the purposefully exact OPPOSITE behavior.

: Yes, true.  I often see drivers in a forced merge situation (on ramp
: or lane ends) trying to prevent someone else who is ahead of them from
: merging in.

: Another discourteous behavior that I see is when car 1 is passing car 2
: on the left, and car 3 is behind car 1 wanting to go faster, car 3 will
: often not wait until car 1 is a safe distance ahead of car 2 to move
: right to let car 3 pass.  Instead, car 3 passes car 1 on the right,
: cutting unsafely close to car 2 in the process.  Seems that the drivers
: of car 3 in these situations are assuming that the car 1 is a left lane
: hog when car 1 is simply waiting to get far enough ahead of car 2 in
: order to move right.

And yet another that angers me.....

Scene: Traffic jam with cars merging onto the freeway from an on ramp.
Most merging cars attempt to get into traffic in a reasonable interval. 
There is always at least one person who feels his/her time is more important
and they traverse the entire merge lane and attempt to muscle in just
as the lane terminates at the last possible moment.

--steve


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