I find the system used in the UK is really infuriating and causes untold problems.
3 lane motorway , closing 2 of the lanes, for whatever reason, at the same time is a really bad way to do it.
Here, Germany, Belgium etc., they close one lane, normally lane 3 first, the cars merge in turn, then about another 1K further on they close the middle lane, and everybody again merges. Seems a much better system.
And the signage is much better, highways vehicles with large signs and arrows giving plenty of warning befor and at the start of the closures.
wheelnutt:
Do we like queuing that much that we increase the queue on purpose?
It’s not really increasing the queue though is it. When there’s no one left to merge it’s more of a convoy than a queue.
CleanFifthWheel:
wheelnutt:
Do we like queuing that much that we increase the queue on purpose?It’s not really increasing the queue though is it. When there’s no one left to merge it’s more of a convoy than a queue.
It is, it moves the queue further back and it slows the traffic unnecessarily. The fastest way is to keep all lanes occupied and merge in turn at the cones, this British way of merging early and getting p!ssed off with those that actually do it properly is just weird.
Trucks blocking the lanes before the cones exacerbates the problem, it creates one that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
Countless studies have been published on the fastest way to merge and for some reason us Brits just can’t get our head around it, I am the one that always goes to the end, sod the muppets that can’t figure it out.
I am actually doing you a favour even if you don’t know it.
Cleanfifthwheel - just no!