Lane usage conundrum!
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 10:00 am
In a busy post office with two serving hatches, you wouldn't join a long queue for hatch one, if hatch two had a little queue or none at all, would you?
So why, at traffic lights, with two straight-on lanes, so we so frequently see 10 or more cars in the left lane and none in the right? I assume I'm doing nothing wrong by moving into the empty lane and occupying a position at the front of the queue.
Interesting though, that when I try to merge with the traffic to my left (note merge, not necessarily jump in front of everyone), I often find some aggressive driver surging forward to prevent me moving across.
If such drivers are so desperate to prevent someone from getting in front of them and delaying their journey by five seconds, why not use both available lanes correctly themselves in the first place and save themselves a much longer wait?!
So why, at traffic lights, with two straight-on lanes, so we so frequently see 10 or more cars in the left lane and none in the right? I assume I'm doing nothing wrong by moving into the empty lane and occupying a position at the front of the queue.
Interesting though, that when I try to merge with the traffic to my left (note merge, not necessarily jump in front of everyone), I often find some aggressive driver surging forward to prevent me moving across.
If such drivers are so desperate to prevent someone from getting in front of them and delaying their journey by five seconds, why not use both available lanes correctly themselves in the first place and save themselves a much longer wait?!