Be honest! Have you ever....

[dejongj]

Our job is done here, another convert
Actually a Polish vet I know, once observed "the trouble with you British is, you are too f*****g polite"
I guess we do seem like that to a lot of other "cultures" but it doesn't make it / us wrong. Or does it?

When it is genuinely polite than that is wonderful. In my experience that is rare, it comes across to me most of the time as a habit or a thing one must do rather than a thing they want to do. To me genuine politeness is unconditional.

 

[big soft moose]

I'd rather see people use both lanes up to the cones and 'zipping' together.

Nothing worse than a dual carriageway with a 3 mile queue in the inside lane and an empty right hand lane.

It's doubly annoying when you want to turn off at the next junction which is a mile before the lane closure.

I was thinking more of the point where a sign says Merge in turn now - but mr clever has to drive right to the cones before attempting to merge (or worse pulls out of the left lane into the right lane, zips to the front and then tries to push in)

The other thing is when you open a gap to merge in turn and three or four cars try to push into it because road captaincy

 

[new2me]

I was thinking more of the point where a sign says Merge in turn now - but mr clever has to drive right to the cones before attempting to merge (or worse pulls out of the left lane into the right lane, zips to the front and then tries to push in)
The other thing is when you open a gap to merge in turn and three or four cars try to push into it because road captaincy

Whether it be the tossers who zip to the front of the empty lane, or the tossers who do not allow people to merge, even where there is a sign saying Merge In Turn, they are not all going to be satisfied by one system. Where a queue has grown due to pinch points, drivers should practice more common sense and stop being so friggin' precious about that little bit of tarmac in front of them.

 

[Byker28i]

Zipping works well on the continent and is the norm. Perhaps it's our British obsession with queuing.

 

[Cobra]

Perhaps it's our British obsession with queuing.

Oh I love a good queue, me,
I always go for the shortest one at the supermarket check out,
and I'm always over the moon when it moves a lot slower than the " longer" one, the next check out over

 

[dejongj]

I love a queue as well. It is brilliant to go straight to the front and see how most moan internally but not say anything. Just like old people do in the UK Seriously though it does make me laugh. There is this bus stop in the city under a bridge. And even in the rain people queue and stand outside in the rain. I can't help but think that they are daft for doing that.

 

[Cobra]

I love a queue as well. It is brilliant to go straight to the front and see how most moan internally but not say anything

Its the British way don'tcha know
And I refer you back to an earlier quote of mine.

Actually a Polish vet I know, once observed "the trouble with you British is, you are too f*****g polite"

However a quick scenario, you've been waiting half an hour for that bus to turn up, on your own,
the bus turns up a 20 people appear from nowhere, blocking your entrance to the bus, pushing in front of you,
and there is no more room, so have to wait for the next one, that has to be galling surely?

 

[dejongj]

Lol that happens with me at the train platform. Love it how people huddle together like where they think the door will be. Yet it is nothing more than other people joining the first person there.

I love the British way, keeps me amused to no end. Besides my wife is gorgeous.

 

[nilagin]

Tbh I often find the opposite to be true...the queue being caused by those waiting until the last possible yard to get over (and of course those braking to allow them to do so).

That's what I find too. If everyone joined the back the traffic would keep moving and not have to keep braking and stopping because of the numpties who want to get up front and go first.

 

[Cobra]

I love the British way, keeps me amused to no end. Besides my wife is gorgeous.

LOL and I guess that the latter is all that really matters Eh?

 

[Tigger.ufo]

That's what I find too. If everyone joined the back the traffic would keep moving and not have to keep braking and stopping because of the numpties who want to get up front and go first.

...and the queue would be twice as long. See post #30.


The numpties are the ones who do not use the available lanes correctly to merge in turn.

 

[dejongj]

...and the queue would be twice as long. See post #30.


The numpties are the ones who do not use the available lanes correctly to merge in turn.

Many scientific studies that fully support that. It makes much more sense to use ALL of the road available and at a steady speed zip merge at the last possible point.

And a zip merges one by one. To me those that don't want to let anyone in, and those that want to nip in together with the one in front are both bell ends.

 

[dejongj]

LOL and I guess that the latter is all that really matters Eh?

Definitely a big reason I'm here, but yes she is f*****g polite as well. Luckily I can make up for both of us.

 

[Cobra]

Luckily I can make up for both of us.

 

[dinners]

I was thinking more of the point where a sign says Merge in turn now

Does it say 'Merge in turn now' or 'merge in turn'

Up here the signs say 'merge in turn' and they're placed along a long length of road from the point where they first want you to consider merging in turn right up to where 2 lanes become 1

People who merge too soon who then get fed up sitting in the 5 mile queue that they themselves have created who then feel bitter towards right hand lane users and don't let them merge are the problem.

 

[new2me]

Does it say 'Merge in turn now' or 'merge in turn'

I'm sure I've seen "Prepare To Merge" as well. It's part of the problem, that each scenario needs a different approach and common sense from drivers. It's not helped where workmen haven't put a suitable sign up for temporary lane closures.

 

[dejongj]

Prepare to merge would make sense to me. It is all about speed matching and avoid hitting the brakes as that will cause tailbacks.

 

[AJQS]

I've never done any of those listed things deliberately, though I have done many other things intentionally to wind up other road users, e.e. playing leapfrog with randoms on the motorway.

 

[nilagin]

...and the queue would be twice as long. See post #30.


The numpties are the ones who do not use the available lanes correctly to merge in turn.

A constantly moving queue so you wouldn't feel like you were queueing, signs generally tell people to merge a lot earlier than the final cut off point for this reason.

 

[LASTOLITE]

I've never done any of those listed things deliberately, though I have done many other things intentionally to wind up other road users, e.e. playing leapfrog with randoms on the motorway.

Out of boredom?

 

[AJQS]

Partly, but mostly because I haven't entirely grown up yet, not when it comes to cars!

 

[LASTOLITE]

Partly, but mostly because I haven't entirely grown up yet, not when it comes to cars!

Lets hope your tom foolery on the road doesn't catch you out one day. As it did the chap on the M6 who decided to do a bit of speeding up slowing down malarkey with a Volvo estate......I watched with interest as he "mucked" about with the bloke - until the blue lights from the unmarked car behind me went on and pulled both of them.....what I would have given to see the face on the bloke in the Audi...and good job I wasn't keeping up with them just to see how things turned out

It was obvious what the bloke in the Audi was doing, I suspect he pulled both to get the handle on what was going on from the Volvo drivers point of view. The bloke looked a little elderly too.

These games can often lead to full blown road rage......