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Article #12Re: Motorway lane closures
From: Steve "daffy" Hunt
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:37
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:37
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T.I.Morley@lut.ac.uk wrote: : I agree that if the motorway is empty enough that you can pull in early : without slowing down too much then you should. However, what about the : not unusual situation where you've got queues crawling along in all three : lanes before you even get to a sign that tells you what lane is closed? It seems to me that the almost-stationary queues in all three lanes are CAUSED by the people who didn't merge early enough. They get all the way to the "funnel" without having merged, and have to stop. Then the other queues have to stop, or slow right down, for the now stationary third lane to merge. You then get alternating cars from each lane going through, which is why the queues run so jerkily. I always merge VERY early and curse the selfish sods who won't. -- Steve Hunt steve@acorn.co.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!acorn!steve From: steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt) Newsgroups: uk.transport Subject: Re: Motorway lane closures Message-ID: <20716@acorn.co.uk> Date: 11 Dec 92 20:37:56 GMT References: <1992Dec11.112549.14439@lut.ac.uk> Organization: Acorn Computers Limited, Cambridge, UK Lines: 17 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]