Do you
a) come in as soon as you are aware of the issue even before the sign (e.g. you know of the issue as it’s a common road for you and you can see the queue’s already starting to form) so no-one can accuse you of queue jumping?
b) come in shortly after the sign?
c) zoom up the outside but watch for gaps on the inside a hundred metres or so short of the merge and nip in?
d) stick in the outside lane at a normal speed until it merges and then force your way in?
e) pull into the outside lane but hold your position to prevent any c’s and d’s from queue jumping?
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They updated the Highway Code a few years back to say you should fill up all free lanes and merge in turn at the pinch.
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cannot understand this kind of pettiness
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Not sure you should be posting while driving, jim.
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I like the sound of e) but you should take this further. If it's a familiar stretch of road get straight out into the outside lane. Pre empt. Hazards on. Let them know you know. Hard on the brakes before anybody else is aware of the problem. Strong eye contact with the car to your left (the marker) so they know to let you in when the time comes. Maintain position.
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If you are driving in a marked car, surely the answer is to put the lights on before zooming up the outside lane, barge in, and home in time for Neighbours.
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anyone who does (e) fully deserves to be beaten to death with their own shoe
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(C) but with 50m to go.
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The correct answer is d. The zipper manoeuvre.
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Offenders should be sent on merge in turn awareness courses.
Right you 'orrible lot. Do you know why you're here? That's right. *Instructor pulls flies up and down playfully for half an hour before showing some videos of slow traffic on the A303 near Stonehenge.*
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yeah it’s always d
never actually witnessed an e in action 2bh
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I’ve done (E).
Who the fook do they think they are when the rest of us wait?
Hit me with my shoe Sir Woke. See what happens.
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Look out for C, but have D as back up plan.
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Sounds like the Gatwick access slip road off the M23, southbound, on a busy summer’s day.
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I am not sure I even understand what ‘e’ would involve.
I will be a b or maybe a conservative c (i.e. get in fairly early) unless actually genuinely in a rush as I hate being in the d position and having to push in.
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I’m a “b” even though I know everyone should be a “d”. I just can’t take the shame of knowing everyone I overtake is cursing me even though I’m doing the right thing.
“E” used to be the preserve of the lorry drivers. A pair of them would work together, one blocking the outside lane and the other allowing the first to get back in at the merge point. Basically, they just created a merge point about half a mile before the official one.
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the bigger dilemma is not so much a merge ahead but a queue to turn off, if this forms way before the actually junction in the slow lane do you join the back or cut I near the junction? Do you let people trying to cut in in?
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d) 90% of the time, it’s road that you can legally be on *shrug*
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In the ME most people choose d. It is hateful.
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