New law making merge in turn compulsory ....

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.... has come into force, alas this has been introduced in Poland and not the UK.

https://www.viatoll.pl/en/a/emergency-corridors-an...

https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7789/Artykul/23867...

https://polandin.com/44929405/zipper-merge-to-beco...

I know that the subject of merge in turn has been done to death on the forums, and the topic always forms two distinct camps who rarely agree with each other.

Perhaps the new law and the official rationale behind its introduction might convince the doubters, refuseniks & the ignorant to finally accept that merge in turn is the correct way of doing things.

However, I won’t be holding my breath, and I’m sure that there will still be many pages of posts disagreeing with the new law.

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4rephill said:

Just because something is written into Law, doesn't mean that everybody will automatically do it.

Centurion07 said:

There will always be stupid people that refuse to accept the obvious, whatever it is.

You're both quite right that some people will continue to ignore or purposefully block a merge in turn.

However, the fact that merge in turn is now officially sanctioned and compulsory in law (at least in Poland), it will remove the the spurious arguments put forward by the non-believers. Also, the risk of police fines will help them modify their non-compliant behaviour.

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Countdown said:

What is irritating is when somebody drives to the end of the queue, expecting there to be a gap and forcing their way in when there isn't one. That's twunitsh driving and being pereived as a twunt is what causes the social anxiety.

The new law will help to put a stop such social anxiety.

The whole point of the new law is to ensure that drivers leave a sufficient gap at the merge point for the merging drivers to merge into.

The twunts (as you put it) who don't leave a sufficient gap, or who block a merge will be at risk of a police fine.

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Centurion07 said:

It hasn't done much for MLM's.

Quite.

The apparent lack of appropriate education and enforcement of MLM's means that this scourge on society continues.