Missouri Sportswriter Murdered in Possible Road Rage Incident

[I Should Coco]

Enjoying this threadjack, and here's my two cents: You can tell how good an area's drivers are if they know how to "zipper merge." Done correctly, it allows traffic to get through lane closure areas as quickly as possible.

Done incorrectly? Well, then you have Phoenix, Arizona.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Everyone is convinced their state has the worst drivers, just like everyone is convinced their state has the most unpredictable weather (If you don't like it, just wait 10 minutes!) and everyone is convinced they have the most eclectic taste in music (I listen to some of everything! You wouldn't believe my playlist.)

Unless you live near a border, then the neighboring state has the worst drivers.

 

[Dog8Cats]

I guess I've never experienced correct zipper merging. I see drivers pull into the through lane before the absolute last minute, which I think is polite. Then I see goofballs who must think they're smarter than the average bear race past the line of cars in the through lane to where a merge absolutely must be made, Pishing off everyone who moved over without cutting it to the final moment.

Yeah zipper merge works great ... best of all for those who have no qualms about jumping 40 spots in line.

Enjoying this threadjack, and here's my two cents: You can tell how good an area's drivers are if they know how to "zipper merge." Done correctly, it allows traffic to get through lane closure areas as quickly as possible.

Done incorrectly? Well, then you have Phoenix, Arizona.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Enjoying this threadjack, and here's my two cents: You can tell how good an area's drivers are if they know how to "zipper merge." Done correctly, it allows traffic to get through lane closure areas as quickly as possible.

Done incorrectly? Well, then you have Phoenix, Arizona.

I have never seen this done correctly. Someone's always an ashhole. Often me!

 

[swingline]

I have never seen this done correctly. Someone's always an ashhole. Often me!

That tracks.








A joke. Just a joke.

 

[Twirling Time]

I first got exposed to zipper merging in the UK in the 1990s. I thought, darn, UK drivers are courteous.

 

[Driftwood]

One of the worst places I've ever encountered is where 485 and 85 merger west of Charlotte headed toward Gastonia. Holy jeez. It's honestly not the drivers' fault. It's the engineers' fault.
"Hey, let's merge about 6 lanes into one only to merge that one into three!"

 

[I Should Coco]

One of the worst places I've ever encountered is where 485 and 85 merger west of Charlotte headed toward Gastonia. Holy jeez. It's honestly not the drivers' fault. It's the engineers' fault.
"Hey, let's merge about 6 lanes into one only to merge that one into three!"

The west end of the Eisenhower Expressway near Chicago is like that, with about six or seven lanes cramming into two or so. On traffic reports they simply would give the time to downtown Chicago from "the merge" and everyone knew which one they meant.

 

[Twirling Time]

Before I got my toll tag and bypashed all that schiz, there is no bigger goat-screw than Central Expressway southbound in Dallas. No less than four merging lanes in a half-mile span just south of the High Five. #IYKYK

 

[Slacker]

I guess I've never experienced correct zipper merging. I see drivers pull into the through lane before the absolute last minute, which I think is polite. Then I see goofballs who must think they're smarter than the average bear race past the line of cars in the through lane to where a merge absolutely must be made, Pishing off everyone who moved over without cutting it to the final moment.

Yeah zipper merge works great ... best of all for those who have no qualms about jumping 40 spots in line.

But ... that's how zipper merging works.

Take that line of 40 and instead make it two lines of 20, and then the zipper merge goes to work. Turns out the drivers jumping the line aren't the problem.

Of course, one ashhole road rager in Macho 'Murrica can screw that up fast, too.

 

[Cosmo]

Yeah, there's a zipper merge on my commute home from the office, and it's amazing how many people don't get how it works. It's not cutting the line, but people take it that way and refuse to let people in from the left lane.

 

[dixiehack]

I think the interchange has since been redesigned but in the 90s there was a zipper merge from I-75 onto 285 below Atlanta. At the moment of truth there was a caution sign reading "Give Gap Take Gap." I had never seen that before or even heard of a zipper merge then but it made enough sense that I knew what to do. It must have made sense to most everyone else because traffic kept flowing in a high-volume situation. I'd like to see that sign come back.