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Most drivers (at least in Australia) will be courteous in this way. Where it breaks down is that the point of merging tends to move backwards, eventually to a p
by dwd 13y ago
Most drivers (at least in Australia) will be courteous in this way. Where it breaks down is that the point of merging tends to move backwards, eventually to a point where drivers are merging quite early, sometimes to the point where arriving vehicles don't even know a merge is occuring. What then happens is drivers push ahead and attempt to start a new merge close to the barrier/traffic cones again. However no one wants to merge twice and see these restarts as skipping the line.
The OPs main point of leaving larger gaps might solve this, but generally gaps will fill and you are then back to gridlock.
- Tloewald 13y agoThis accords with my own experience driving in Sydney, where the need to merge is frequent, but not Canberra, which has more more US-like freeway system.
- dwd 13y agoBrisbane had a few bad years of building insane combined on/off ramps that tend to block frequently as everyone needs to be in that lane but with three or four lanes of traffic. Hale Street as you pass Suncorp Stadium is a particularly bad one.