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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / July 2008

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Toll-Merge-Challenged

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Scott in SoCal - 30 Jul 2008 04:05 GMT
There's a new sub-classification of merge-impaired drivers that may be
unique to toll roads.

In SoCal, the on-ramps to the toll roads generally have two lanes: the
one on the left is a FasTrak lane, and the one on the right is a cash
lane. The cash lanes have no gates or swing arms, and they Do have
transponder pingers, so if you have a FasTrak transponder you can go
at full speed through either lane with ZERO problems. I do it myself
all the time, especially at off-ramps where I need to make a right
hand turn at the end of the ramp. The fact that the cash lanes also
accept FasTrak is well-documented, but that doesn't stop moron drivers
from desperately trying to get into the left lane - even though it is
full of cars and the right lane is completely clear.

Today I was the last in a conga line of three vehicles that made a
left turn onto the on-ramp, which naturally placed us into the left
lane. At about the same time, a group of 3 vehicles coming from the
other direction made a right onto the ramp. The idiots slowed WAY down
and waited until all three of us had gone by and then darted over into
the left lane.

You see the same sh.t at off-ramps, too. And these are regular tollway
users - they all have FasTrak transponders - so you'd think they would
understand how the system works. But NOOOOOO!!!!!!!! :)
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Q: What's the difference between a traffic snake and a real one?
A: The traffic snake's a.shole at the *front* end.

N8N - 30 Jul 2008 17:34 GMT
> There's a new sub-classification of merge-impaired drivers that may be
> unique to toll roads.
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> Q: What's the difference between a traffic snake and a real one?
> A: The traffic snake's a.shole at the *front* end.

you must have a far higher rate of usage than we do here...  even
though the tollbooth that I go through every day has only two EZPass
lanes and I don't know how many exact change or full service lanes,
the EZPass only lanes are FAR quicker than any of the others.

Usually the impairment that I see is the people camping out in the
left lane not realizing that it turns into an EZPass only lane, and
then stopping and sitting still until some "kind" person "lets" them
over into one of the full service lanes (more like, they get sick of
listening to all the honking and wave the a-hole in, and/or the a-hole
forces his way over by simply nosing in and making another driver stop
to avoid a collision.)

nate
 
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