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Although the obvious answer to traffic behaviour when two carriageways go down to one is to move up to the front on both lanes (as taught by the IAM I believe) it occurs to me that because of the care taken to merge with a short road distance, traffic slows to about 25mph at the throat of the constriction. If the merger can take place earlier when there is still plenty of room, a much higher speed can be maintained, so allowing a better flow.
Asked on 25 January 2010 by RE, Doddinghurst
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Honest John
'Zipping’ as it is called in North America is international. It's only in countries with strange obsessions about queues (probably dating back to the ration queues of WWII) that people get extraordinarily hot under the collar about anyone coming past them on the approach to a pinch point. Like you, I get over early. And it has taken years to force myself not to get angry at drivers who come past. I also let drivers onto the motorway from sliproads where theoretically and legally I have the "right of way", but the only true right of way is common sense and survival. It's not surprising that the very same people who drive slowly and get overtaken on ordinary roads and motorways are often the ones who seek to obstruct other drivers at pinch points. Possibly many are also members of CLOG, who drive down the centre lanes of motorways at 50 - 60mph causing mayhem, death and destruction behind them.
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