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<blockquote data-quote="Joe Rampino" data-source="post: 800187" data-attributes="member: 63032"><p>If everyone used both lanes, then both lanes would equally fill up so it would take the same amount of time to get through the pinch point as it would if everyone lined up two miles early. So why do traffic engineers encourage you to use both lanes until the merge?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In a line of traffic, if there's an open lane, there will always be some number of people that will use the open lane. By the same token, there will also be some number of "lane enforcers" that will attempt to block the open lane users. It's just human nature. The result could be disastrous if the action resulted in a collision in an already space-restricted situation. So how do you eliminate open-lane use envy? Equally fill both lanes with vehicles, not to save time, but to keep down the opportunity for dangerous lane blocking actions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joe Rampino, post: 800187, member: 63032"] If everyone used both lanes, then both lanes would equally fill up so it would take the same amount of time to get through the pinch point as it would if everyone lined up two miles early. So why do traffic engineers encourage you to use both lanes until the merge? In a line of traffic, if there's an open lane, there will always be some number of people that will use the open lane. By the same token, there will also be some number of "lane enforcers" that will attempt to block the open lane users. It's just human nature. The result could be disastrous if the action resulted in a collision in an already space-restricted situation. So how do you eliminate open-lane use envy? Equally fill both lanes with vehicles, not to save time, but to keep down the opportunity for dangerous lane blocking actions. [/QUOTE]
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