Lane Closure - Merge In Turn - 800yds or at closure?
Discussion
We've all been there. One lane closing on the dual carriageway or motorway with 1-mile, 800-yard, 600-yard and so on markers to let us know where it's happening.
I've always been of the opinion that you should be merging in turn at, or very shortly before, the point at which the lane closes (not at the first marker) and that if you're in the still-open lane you should each be letting on car ahead of you go to keep both lanes moving.
Is there any guidance for this in the highway code? A friend is arguing that I'm the knob who sails past in the outside lane and expects to be let in after queue-jumping. I counter argue that if people followed my method and each person let another in at the merge point there wouldn't be anywhere near as much traffic waiting in the "open" lane.
I've always been of the opinion that you should be merging in turn at, or very shortly before, the point at which the lane closes (not at the first marker) and that if you're in the still-open lane you should each be letting on car ahead of you go to keep both lanes moving.
Is there any guidance for this in the highway code? A friend is arguing that I'm the knob who sails past in the outside lane and expects to be let in after queue-jumping. I counter argue that if people followed my method and each person let another in at the merge point there wouldn't be anywhere near as much traffic waiting in the "open" lane.
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