Slip road use when motorway blocked
Discussion
Dudes/dudettes,
Relatively long acceleration lane off a large traffic light infested roundabout downhill onto a three lane motorway. It's a busy time of day, so the slip road is queued but moving onto a motorway which is nose-to-tail and crawling.
It seems obvious to me that those on the slip would go right to the end to save clogging the motorway any earlier than necessary and backing up the slip road onto the RA and causing inevitable yellow box junction catastrophe.
Sadly, this type of thing seems to go against the Great British Obsession with queueing as unnecessarily as possible. I find that the later one attempts to join, the harder it is made by those already on the motorway.
Any special advice? Is my thinking incorrect, should I join earlier for some reason? What would Jesus do?
Relatively long acceleration lane off a large traffic light infested roundabout downhill onto a three lane motorway. It's a busy time of day, so the slip road is queued but moving onto a motorway which is nose-to-tail and crawling.
It seems obvious to me that those on the slip would go right to the end to save clogging the motorway any earlier than necessary and backing up the slip road onto the RA and causing inevitable yellow box junction catastrophe.
Sadly, this type of thing seems to go against the Great British Obsession with queueing as unnecessarily as possible. I find that the later one attempts to join, the harder it is made by those already on the motorway.
Any special advice? Is my thinking incorrect, should I join earlier for some reason? What would Jesus do?
Lgfst said:
Single lane slip road?
The only one I ever have to use when it's busy and I take a short cut is this one near Wythenshawe
https://goo.gl/maps/psWdX2eiEjn
I stay left and go to the end (which a lot of others do too). Never had a problem getting in.
Queueing is very British and people don't want to feel like they pushed in and get upset if they think someone is pushing in. I see it all the time with a 2 to 1 merge. 800yds before people are waiting and indicating in.
You and I, I suspect, live a stone's throw from each other.The only one I ever have to use when it's busy and I take a short cut is this one near Wythenshawe
https://goo.gl/maps/psWdX2eiEjn
I stay left and go to the end (which a lot of others do too). Never had a problem getting in.
Queueing is very British and people don't want to feel like they pushed in and get upset if they think someone is pushing in. I see it all the time with a 2 to 1 merge. 800yds before people are waiting and indicating in.
I understand exactly why you'd say this, I really do, but the point of asking in the AD sub was to get an idea of what's best to do, not what's most common.
You'll agree, I'm sure, that the average man is pretty stupid and that 50% of people are stupider still. Since driving seems to bring out the worst in people, simply following the crowd is probably the very worst thing to do.
I am all for joining convention when it's a better solution than rocking the boat. I don't refer to 'sheeple'. I don't use the phrase 'WAKE UP!' as punctuation and I don't attempt to turn unsubstantiated opinion into truth by ending with the word 'fact'. What I do like to do is know the best solution to problems which I encounter and can't quite fathom myself, often because of the issue that so many other people seem to do it the counter-intuitive way.
Rest assured, I won't be taking a wilfully contrary line and length for its own sake, but if it comes my turn and the situation dictates, I'll happily take on board the reassurance in this thread and head on down to the end of the slip.
You'll agree, I'm sure, that the average man is pretty stupid and that 50% of people are stupider still. Since driving seems to bring out the worst in people, simply following the crowd is probably the very worst thing to do.
I am all for joining convention when it's a better solution than rocking the boat. I don't refer to 'sheeple'. I don't use the phrase 'WAKE UP!' as punctuation and I don't attempt to turn unsubstantiated opinion into truth by ending with the word 'fact'. What I do like to do is know the best solution to problems which I encounter and can't quite fathom myself, often because of the issue that so many other people seem to do it the counter-intuitive way.
Rest assured, I won't be taking a wilfully contrary line and length for its own sake, but if it comes my turn and the situation dictates, I'll happily take on board the reassurance in this thread and head on down to the end of the slip.
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