Why don't people let me in?????!!!!

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I work in Brentford and on my way home have to get on the M4 from the A4 from under the elevated section. Stupidly, People queue from the Chiswick round-a-bout like idiots when all I do is scoot down the outside and cut in last minute.

However, there's always some idiot who tries to stop me joining the lane by pulling really close to the car in front but looks straight ahead and pretends not to see me. What's it with these people? It's hardly going to make much different to their arrival time if they simply let me in? Arggghhh!

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marcosgt said:

There's not an arrow on the road saying your empty lane's right turn only is there?

M.

Nope.

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Blue Meanie said:

MarJay said:

Arese said:

Because they're thinking "I've been sat here queueing for ages, this tt thinks he can just skip the queue and push in, I'm going to stop him."

And why the heck not? If you want to queue jump, buy a car with dents and scratches all over it, so people won't risk getting hit. Its a good psychological weapon.

Or Don't queue jump.

It's not queue jumping, it is merging in turn.

Exactly! Thank you.

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mat205125 said:

Why am I the only person to have spotted that the OP drives an R-Class ..... Our goverment actively encourages jealousy and distain for hardwork and success!

I'd probably not let your R-Class in to save me looking at it's fat arse all the way home

My wife drives the R-Class (for the kids). I'm in the cabriolet.

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B Oeuf said:

can someone link to a google earth of the junction?

it's under the elevated section so you probably won't be able to see it

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Digger said:

Sym7 said:

B Oeuf said:

can someone link to a google earth of the junction?

it's under the elevated section so you probably won't be able to see it

You've thought this through haven't you. . .

Yeah, you know what? I get the same thing in the Blackwall Tunnel too

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CampDavid said:

You're queue jumping. I do it myself and fully understand why people won't let me in. The best idea is to try and subtley merge (M6 south at the A14/M1 junction is a good example, it goes into two lanes at the end of the slip road, ideal)

When cutting in directly in front of someone, I always feel it's poor form to do this with easy targets such as old ladies in Micras. The young thruster with some sort of Bluetooth device is more fair. Always thank post merging and respond politely to V signs and "wker" gestures

Good advice CampDavid. I'll try this rather than give the "birdie" to some bloke who's stupidly and unnecessarily sat in queue for 20 minutes (probably Robatr0n )

Edited by Sym7 on Monday 14th December 15:48

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Robatr0n said:

Sym7 said:

CampDavid said:

You're queue jumping. I do it myself and fully understand why people won't let me in. The best idea is to try and subtley merge (M6 south at the A14/M1 junction is a good example, it goes into two lanes at the end of the slip road, ideal)

When cutting in directly in front of someone, I always feel it's poor form to do this with easy targets such as old ladies in Micras. The young thruster with some sort of Bluetooth device is more fair. Always thank post merging and respond politely to V signs and "wker" gestures

Good advice CampDavid. I'll try this rather than give the "birdie" to some bloke who's stupidly and unnecessarily sat in queue for 20 minutes (probably Robatr0n )

Edited by Sym7 on Monday 14th December 15:48

Learn the highway code if you don't want abuse. Anyway, I don't take the M4, I'll be the guy giving you abuse for unnecessarily stopping me from driving along the lane destined for the A4.

Cock.

Calm down! No one's died. You secretly wish you'd gone down the RHS too right?

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For the record, despite all of the anger directed towards me, I was referring to the middle lane which is most certainly for the M4! I leave early but there is still a queue building on the far LHS side which I find just stupid. I see no problem using the lane designated for M4, going to the end and "merging".

I will admit to having some sport with Robartr0n though as it looked like he was about to blow a blood vessel of something - sorry if I wound the rest of you up in the process. Bloody funny though!

Also for the record, I'm entirely with CampDavid....I'm happy to let people in if they've taken the initiative to cut in. It really does make you feel so much calmer if you do that (even if you've queued a long time) and everyone's happy. Try it, it really works. Happy days!

Calm down Robatr0n! Calm down!!!

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Steve748 said:

CampDavid said:

So it's ok for motorbikes to jump the queue but not cars? I think this may just be the most arrogant post in an arrogant thread

You obviously have never used two wheels then, have you?
In your eyes it is wrong for a bike to go to the front of the queue at the lights or a level crossing?
It's wrong for them to overtake you in a way that would be impossible in a car?
It's wrong for them to filter through two lines of slow moving/stationary traffic?
Far from arrogant it is what bikes are for and it's only idiots that sit behind cars in queues,

I must say, I ride a bike too and these are good points. The whole point of a motorbike is to make progress. It's not queue jumping...we're usually off and out of your hair before you know it. Though it's amazing how many car drivers try and tighten the gap between traffic when filtering. This can be quite dangerous sometimes.

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You all seem to want a villan here. I go down the right hand of the two merging lanes for the M4. For sport I thought I would wind robatr0n up by not disagreeing that I go down the A4 lane. But that's not given you the villan that you want so you ignore (or call it back tracking) when I tell you the facts. I truly wish I hadn't gone fir a bit of sport with Robatr0n. Would it help if I said sorry?

By the way, what's wrong with the R-Class? It's a really good car.

Edited by Sym7 on Monday 14th December 20:44

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rottie102 said:

OP, I just wish you would try it one day with me... I will show you how arrogant tts like you should be treated.

Are you Kenneth Noye?

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MarJay said:

I know exactly where you mean OP, having thought about it. I often work in Chiswick. People queue in the two left lanes right back to the Chiswick roundabout. However, the right hand lane is for the A4 only, and it is people who use that lane and then cut in at the last minute who are dicks. I can't see how you could possibly scoot up the middle lane in rush hour as its always full, at least back to the traffic lights.

There is some small mitigation in the fact that the junction is extremely poorly designed, but that doesn't excuse queue jumping.

In actual fact, I shall be going that way tomorrow, and shall keep an eye out for you. Virtual rocket launcher on standby.

Oh for god's sake read what I wrote! I did not say rush hour. In fact, as in my previous post, I leave work early but still the left lane is busy so I go down the right lane which is virtually empty at the time I leave. This is the point of my post because when I get to the end, quite legitimately to merge I get blocked! You'll see in my previous post that I don't mention rush hour at all and, in fact, state that I leave early. Not complicated. But I'm going to go down the A4 lane tonight and look out for a knackered old BMW E36 and cut in. As I'm accused I may as well do it!