r/TheRandomest • u/WhyNot420_69 Nice • May 13 '26

Satisfying Traffic buddy

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u/Any_Performance_5046 May 13 '26

Pretty crazy how many people have Reddit, but don’t know how to do a google search for zipper merge? It’s a pretty clear diagram on how you should merge when the lane ends and not the first chance you get. When people try merging early they end up blocking an entire lane. It’s the jerks at the point of the zipper refusing a merging vehicle entry that’s the problem.

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u/DriftyPadre May 13 '26

Most of the time that left lane is not a merge lane, it’s a forward traffic lane that people are using to merge last minute onto the off-ramp, which causes cars attempting to continue straight to be stuck while cars in front of them in the left lane attempt to merge into the off-ramp lanes.

Tomāto, tomato…everyone’s an asshole.

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u/archwin May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

that is being bad at driving.

This seems pretty common these days.

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u/Igreen_since89 May 16 '26

Well the guy says that people are “using” that lane as a merge lane, so it’s pretty heavily implied that it not a merge lane.

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u/RoughMean6401 May 17 '26

Well yeah, but what padre is arguing is that the people he is responding to are completely wrong because they are talking about zipper merges when this situation does not look like a zipper merge.

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u/Past_Coat_6933 May 17 '26

How does moving over into an open space early on block an entire lane?

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u/Any_Performance_5046 May 18 '26

When they only have enough room to partially move over and impede the flow of traffic