Current Events > do you slow down to let cars merge with you on the freeway

Topic List	Page List: 1, 2
CaloFragilistic 10/29/17 5:01:26 PM #52:	treewojima posted... rattlesnake30 posted... What are you supposed to do when the on-ramps are short and have to slow down or stop before merging? Some of the highways around here are ridiculous. We have a short on-ramp followed by an exit-ramp thats incredibly close. So you have people trying to merge on and off in a very small area. 395 into DC near Arlington, VA is notorious for this. it's an old branch of the interstate that has steeply curved on ramps and little to no merge lanes. it's life or death merging onto that thing at speed THIS. 395 northbound after the 14th St. bridge is so damned ridiculous. A two-lane on ramp merging into a three-lane highway, with the innermost lanes merging, and not a yield sign in sight. It's madness. It's at the point where it's safer in bumper-to-bumper traffic, just so you can slow down to see who you're merging with. And then like a quarter of the traffic in both lanes needs to get over to the other side of the highway. Every day with this crap. I'd take GW Parkway or N Quaker to Duke St, but those are a whole different kind of mess. --- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. <cite>CaloFragilistic posted [p:889380135] in do you slo... [t:75931765]...</cite> <quote><cite>treewojima posted...</cite> <quote><cite>rattlesnake30 posted...</cite> <quote>What are you supposed to do when the on-ramps are short and have to slow down or stop before merging? Some of the highways around here are ridiculous. We have a short on-ramp followed by an exit-ramp thats incredibly close. So you have people trying to merge on and off in a very small area.</quote> 395 into DC near Arlington, VA is notorious for this. it's an old branch of the interstate that has steeply curved on ramps and little to no merge lanes. it's life or death merging onto that thing at speed</quote> THIS. 395 northbound after the 14th St. bridge is so damned ridiculous. A two-lane on ramp merging into a three-lane highway, with the innermost lanes merging, and not a yield sign in sight. It's madness. It's at the point where it's safer in bumper-to-bumper traffic, just so you can slow down to see who you're merging with. And then like a quarter of the traffic in both lanes needs to get over to the other side of the highway. Every day with this crap. I'd take GW Parkway or N Quaker to Duke St, but those are a whole different kind of mess.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
mew4ever 10/29/17 5:03:50 PM #53:	I generally try to let them. It's tough merging conditions on most of my local roads. Seems like every single entrance is the same lane as an exit a quarter mile down the road. I despise those. Merge quickly or get off the road is what it's telling you --- http://tinyurl.com/qg6jcsu New York Mets 2015 NL Champions. New York Jets: 3-3 <cite>mew4ever posted [p:889380277] in do you slo... [t:75931765]...</cite> <quote>I generally try to let them. It's tough merging conditions on most of my local roads. Seems like every single entrance is the same lane as an exit a quarter mile down the road. I despise those. Merge quickly or get off the road is what it's telling you</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Topic List	Page List: 1, 2