What do you think of people who block merge lanes

[Hammerhead]

I think it's just a jerk move since you are going out of your way to do this. And what about the poor guy behind you in the normal lane. He's gonna have to be the one letting in the guy you blocked.
You are not helping anyone out by doing this. You aren't preventing the merge. You are just preventing the merge infront of you, you self centered bastard. (not you personally, but merge lane blockers in general)

 

[OrganizedChaos]

does merge lane =suicide lane?

never heard of a merge lane before

 

[gigapet]

Times I wish I had a silenced unregistered pistol in my car and fold away lisc plates.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: AMDZen
Anyone who voted "love them", and was serious needs to be shot along with people who do this.

Traffic moves more smoothly, with less chance of an accident. What's not to love?

Originally posted by: Hammerhead
I think it's just a jerk move since you are going out of your way to do this. And what about the poor guy behind you in the normal lane. He's gonna have to be the one letting in the guy you blocked.
You are not helping anyone out by doing this. You aren't preventing the merge. You are just preventing the merge infront of you, you self centered bastard. (not you personally, but merge lane blockers in general)

"selfish?" He was in front to start with! The guy trying to cut around everyone is MUCH more selfish than the blocker...the blocker is just protecting his interests and preventing the sort of sudden accelerations and deccelerations which cause accidents and extra congestion with the same number of cars.

 

[Hammerhead]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: AMDZen
Anyone who voted "love them", and was serious needs to be shot along with people who do this.

Traffic moves more smoothly, with less chance of an accident. What's not to love?

Originally posted by: Hammerhead
I think it's just a jerk move since you are going out of your way to do this. And what about the poor guy behind you in the normal lane. He's gonna have to be the one letting in the guy you blocked.
You are not helping anyone out by doing this. You aren't preventing the merge. You are just preventing the merge infront of you, you self centered bastard. (not you personally, but merge lane blockers in general)

"selfish?" He was in front to start with! The guy trying to cut around everyone is MUCH more selfish than the blocker...the blocker is just protecting his interests and preventing the sort of sudden accelerations and deccelerations which cause accidents and extra congestion with the same number of cars.

By blocking he's causing an abrupt stop. how is this smooth?
He's selfish because he's only looking out for himself because no one will be able to merge in front of him forcing the others in the normal lane behind him to let others in. The fvck does he care what happens behind him....that's why he'd self centered.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
Exactly, that's why I block the merge lane so it defeats the purpose of changing into this lane to zip past other people.

Traffic jams happen because there are more cars than there is available road; it's a fact of life. Yes we all want to get to where we're going quicker, but not at the expense of everyone else, so wait your turn.

And in this case, you have no choice but to wait like everyone else. Pissed off? Now you know how it feels to be in the slow lane.

So your solution to the shortage is to stupidly not make use of all the available legal pavement? I will drive on the grass to get around asses like you that try that crap.

 

[pontifex]

******, i voted wrong.

i meant to vote love.

i ahte those assholes that are in such a hurry and think they are better than everyone else who fly down the ending lane at 70mph so they can cut in front of everyone else.

 

[Darkstar757]

They should be burned

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: pontifex
******, i voted wrong.

i meant to vote love.

i ahte those assholes that are in such a hurry and think they are better than everyone else who fly down the ending lane at 70mph so they can cut in front of everyone else.

There would be no everyone else to get in front of if all you self righteous people would just stay in both lanes and zipper merge at the merge point.

 

[Legendary]

When driving, I occasionally block merge lanes. Why? Because I don't want someone to undeservedly get ahead of me. If I'm the only one blocking the merge lane, I guess I'm the only one that cares to take the risk, which is fine with me. I'm doing everyone in front of me a favor, and if the person behind me doesn't like it, he can prevent the offending car from merging in front of him, as can the guy behind him, etc. When you're driving, you don't have to do anything but obey the law. Letting people merge in front of you is not part of the law, and thus not required. I understand that by taking two lanes I am in fact committing a lane violation, which is against the law, but that is my own risk to take, and I take it gladly. If you don't like it, next time you see someone blocking half a merge lane to prevent cars from going past, call the police. Will they come out to give me a ticket? I doubt it.

 

[FoBoT]

i guess some of us just don't know our place in life. if anyone is important, they should be able to drive all the way around us smoes in the line so they can merge in front of all the little people

after all, just scum bags shouldn't hold up the lives of the important people, they have important things to do and waiting to merge in order would slow them down too much

 

[xrax]

Merge lanes on freeways are usually bad during rush out. They should put stoplights on the freeway during rush hour or build more freeways.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
The idea is to prevent a-holes like you from flying down the lane at 50 mph while everyone is crawling at 3mph. Then you fvckers pile up at the end where it gets narrow then jack the lane to the left.

You bet your ass I fvcking block the merge lane towards the end--I also give the drivers behind me the one-fingered salute while they slam on their brakes.

I used to think like you. Then I realized that for every person like you (and me at the time) that would block people like that, there were 10 that would let them in. I would scream at the drivers in front of me to stop letting them have thier cake and eat it too.

I realized that people reward assholes. Thus I became one.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: pontifex
******, i voted wrong.

i meant to vote love.

i ahte those assholes that are in such a hurry and think they are better than everyone else who fly down the ending lane at 70mph so they can cut in front of everyone else.

There would be no everyone else to get in front of if all you self righteous people would just stay in both lanes and zipper merge at the merge point.

you must not drive in heavy traffic near a merge point very often. no one lets people in front of them.

fvck, on my way home there is a 4 lane bridge, 2 lanes each way. i get on the bridge from an on-ramp on the right side of the bridge and need to take an exit on the left side of the bridge a couple hundred feet away. no one lets you merge into the left lane even though tons of people need to take this exit. its fvcking ridiculous.

 

[Hammerhead]

Originally posted by: pontifex
******, i voted wrong.

i meant to vote love.

i ahte those assholes that are in such a hurry and think they are better than everyone else who fly down the ending lane at 70mph so they can cut in front of everyone else.

I don't suffer from low self esteem thinking that everyone in the merge lane thinks they are better than me.

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: jagec
It's just counter-jerk tactics. I don't do it myself, but I'd say they actually IMPROVE the flow of traffic (at least non-jerk traffic), since they're keeping people from zooming by the line of cars and cutting in front, forcing everyone to brake suddenly, which REALLY slows stuff down.

When I drive (or walk), it's ALL about the flow of traffic. The shorter the gap I'm merging into, the faster I go to get up to speed...if I see people slowing down ahead, I back off the throttle and usually they start moving again before I come to a full stop...if I'm walking down the street and there's a four-way stop, I will often cross BEHIND the car in front, just so I don't make them wait a needless half-minute for me.

Exactly, it improves the flow of traffic. Semis do it all the time when interstates drop from 2 to 1 lane for construction. OP is stupid.

After reading this thread, wow there are lots more stupid people.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Hammerhead

Originally posted by: pontifex
******, i voted wrong.

i meant to vote love.

i ahte those assholes that are in such a hurry and think they are better than everyone else who fly down the ending lane at 70mph so they can cut in front of everyone else.

I don't suffer from low self esteem thinking that everyone in the merge lane thinks they are better than me.

 

[Tommouse]

I've blocked from time to time. Trying to keep traffic moving. It is people that use these lanes to pass everyone that cause the slowdown. If they just merged over within a reasonable time this wouldn't be a problem, but of course people are a-holes so they wont. All a blocker does is force an earlier merger, and that helps everyone, because once merged traffic moves better, its all the cutting off that people do that cause the jams. So please don't call us selfish when we are trying to help the whole flow (including ourselves of course) and not just solely ourselves.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Tommouse
I've blocked from time to time. Trying to keep traffic moving. It is people that use these lanes to pass everyone that cause the slowdown. If they just merged over within a reasonable time this wouldn't be a problem, but of course people are a-holes so they wont. All a blocker does is force an earlier merger, and that helps everyone, because once merged traffic moves better, its all the cutting off that people do that cause the jams. So please don't call us selfish when we are trying to help the whole flow (including ourselves of course) and not just solely ourselves.

You are just as selfish as the person in the other lane. If you really wanted to help you would not allow anyone to merge except 1 car at the merge point. Then both lanes would be used to the maximum extent and everyone would win. Neither lane would move faster than the other.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Tommouse
I've blocked from time to time. Trying to keep traffic moving. It is people that use these lanes to pass everyone that cause the slowdown. If they just merged over within a reasonable time this wouldn't be a problem, but of course people are a-holes so they wont. All a blocker does is force an earlier merger, and that helps everyone, because once merged traffic moves better, its all the cutting off that people do that cause the jams. So please don't call us selfish when we are trying to help the whole flow (including ourselves of course) and not just solely ourselves.

You are just as selfish as the person in the other lane. If you really wanted to help you would not allow anyone to merge except 1 car at the merge point. Then both lanes would be used to the maximum extent and everyone would win. Neither lane would move faster than the other.

but thats not how it works. the guy in the ending lane comes flying down it at 70 mph and either breaks his way into line. thats the people i hate. if people did it how it was supposed to work i wouldn't mind as much, but they don't. i'm not letting some snot nosed 17 year old speed down the lane with his rap sh!t blaring and bust in line.

 

[Tommouse]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Tommouse
I've blocked from time to time. Trying to keep traffic moving. It is people that use these lanes to pass everyone that cause the slowdown. If they just merged over within a reasonable time this wouldn't be a problem, but of course people are a-holes so they wont. All a blocker does is force an earlier merger, and that helps everyone, because once merged traffic moves better, its all the cutting off that people do that cause the jams. So please don't call us selfish when we are trying to help the whole flow (including ourselves of course) and not just solely ourselves.

You are just as selfish as the person in the other lane. If you really wanted to help you would not allow anyone to merge except 1 car at the merge point. Then both lanes would be used to the maximum extent and everyone would win. Neither lane would move faster than the other.

They had their chance to merge, as somehow I was able to get over ... got pissed off enough and decided to block the other lane. IF you had merged without help from the lane ending or blockers then traffic would be a bit better.

The selfish thing ... I am helping everyone in front of me. You are helping ... yourself. That is selfish, not what us blockers do, we try to help everyone.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Tommouse
I've blocked from time to time. Trying to keep traffic moving. It is people that use these lanes to pass everyone that cause the slowdown. If they just merged over within a reasonable time this wouldn't be a problem, but of course people are a-holes so they wont. All a blocker does is force an earlier merger, and that helps everyone, because once merged traffic moves better, its all the cutting off that people do that cause the jams. So please don't call us selfish when we are trying to help the whole flow (including ourselves of course) and not just solely ourselves.

You are just as selfish as the person in the other lane. If you really wanted to help you would not allow anyone to merge except 1 car at the merge point. Then both lanes would be used to the maximum extent and everyone would win. Neither lane would move faster than the other.

but thats not how it works. the guy in the ending lane comes flying down it at 70 mph and either breaks his way into line. thats the people i hate. if people did it how it was supposed to work i wouldn't mind as much, but they don't. i'm not letting some snot nosed 17 year old speed down the lane with his rap sh!t blaring and bust in line.

The guy behind you will though. So he still got in front of 50 cars.

 

[brandonbull]

I block those morons that think they are the only ones in a hurry and they need to zip all the way to the very front and then swerve in. All they are doing is slowing traffic down more. Hey asshats.... I hate traffic too. I tailgate and force them to wait.

 

[Argo]

I do that and anybody who has a problem with that can go to hell.

 

[kami333]

Actually lane blockers and early mergers ARE the ones you cause delays and slow downs.

Ever notice the "Use both lanes until merge point" signs? Oh, thats right, traffic engineers have no idea what they are doing...