I do this every time that I ride to work. It works on The Gardiner. It works on 401. It works on 410, which is the worst of them.
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****ing old man merges into my lane TWICE
- Thread starter Jlin
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I do this every time that I ride to work. It works on The Gardiner. It works on 401. It works on 410, which is the worst of them.
I do this as well. It helps you stick out a little more.
Either way, what I saw in the video is normal. Not that it's good or bad or anything, but that's what I see two or three times a day. If this is your first time seeing that, OP, then you've been lucky so far
I took a ride through richmond hill today....now THAT place is scary.
Dohhh
Banned
one day its not gonna work and you're gonna eat the pavement. at that moment you're kinda gonna wish you left some more room for a way out..
you;re ****ed no matter which one u go with really ona bike
I'll take that "one day" over every other day, when some moron would think that the space I'm riding in is empty, because he can't see me for the car that's behind me. Sometimes you have to choose your lane position aggressively for reasons both of visibility, and demanding respect from other road users. Be passive, in this arrogant and narcissistic age, and you're roadkill.
redridernl
Well-known member
Does your horn work? Use it.
I regularly ride the 410, and 401, with some spurts on the 427, Gardiner and DVP depending on circumstances. I position myself aggressively in my lane, just as Rob describes, and I've had very few issues. If I'm in the right lane with an onramp lane beside me about to merge, I either move into the right side of my lane, or change lanes. Most of the time, I'm riding just above the pace of traffic so I can manage the space around me. I never sit in a car's blind spot longer than necessary, and I make sure that I have space in front and behind me, with an escape route in the lanes adjacent to me.
You don't understand "merge", do you? You don't have to stop to let everyone on the ramp in. Courtesy would see you slow just enough to let one car in, that being the Honda. The vehicle behind you can slow a bit to let the next vehicle in if one is there. Taking turns, merging, right lane and ramp lanes matching speed so traffic can merge in zipper tooth style. General traffic flow and safety in both the entering ramp and the right lane is best served when neither has to come to a complete stop.
The other part is your lane positioning during the second incident. Being way over to the left side of the right lane put you well out of the merging car's mirror view.
In a perfect world the guy would have done a shoulder check and maybe even craned his neck out the window to see around the B-pillar of his car and thus been able to see you, but we do not lie in a perfect world. Had you been in the right part of the lane, your presence would have been more visible to him in his mirrors, plus you would have been in a better blocking position.
However, even so, there would still be an expectation that you would "play nice" and facilitate his merging into traffic by either you either sliding ahead of him before he reached the end of the merge lane or you backing off just a bit so he can slide in ahead of you, depending on whose "nose" was further ahead at the time if the speeds of each were about equal.
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i dont' know what you're complaining about regarding the 2nd one...1st one just accelerate out...
you're in the left track blocking position but the guys lane is coming to an end. Of course he's going to come in when you're on the left track, expect it.
If you think this is bad, never ever ride anywhere else in the world.
you're in the left track blocking position but the guys lane is coming to an end. Of course he's going to come in when you're on the left track, expect it.
If you think this is bad, never ever ride anywhere else in the world.
Apparently it's the guy in the video, who doesn't understand "merge", or he wouldn't be running up to the end of the lane and then forcing his way in.
Maybe. Maybe not. Ideally you merge as soon as you are able to match speed with and find a gap in the right lane. It may simply be that this driver was not able to meet both conditions until the end of the merge lane. That ramp has only about 200 meters of merge room before it has to end because of the bridge abutment, and the video clearly shows that the highway was busy that day. Regardless, once at the end of that merge lane, it should have been expected that the car would need to be let in or that it would find its way in.
Turbo understands full well that people routinely run up to the end of the merge lane and force their way in. He's taking the opposing view (as usual) so he has the opportunity to pontificate (as usual). Tomorrow someone will post that they tried to get in at the end of the merge lane and someone in the slow lane accelerated forward so they couldn't get in, and he will argue (opposite of his argument today) that it was his fault. Leopard. Spots. Yadda, yadda, yadda..
Bull. My experience with that ramp, as with so many others in this region, is that people are arrogant and selfish, and push their way in beyond the end of ramps. This is "driving off roadway" and is an offence. No one should have to expect, that someone will drive beyond the merge lane and push their way into traffic. If you don't TRY to merge, then you create a self fulfilling prophecy.
Definitely so, especially in such an obvious case as this.
The problem lies with the fact that our on ramps are too damn long.
Shorten them up, similar to U.S.
Not the one in question. The problem, as I've stated so many times before, is a combination of narcissism and lack of enforcement, for issues other than speed.
Too late, the GoPro genie is out of the bottle and we'll can never go back.
stormcat
Well-known member
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OP, where did you expect the cager to go? Over the guardrail and into the weeds for you? Either allowing vehicles to merge in, or changing lanes to open up the merge lane is common courtesy. Not allowing people to merge onto the highway is just plain rude. You're at fault.
Funny thing about courtesy; it goes both ways. Why did the cager run to the end of the merge lane, then expect that he'd be able to force his way in?
Regardless of whose right or wrong in the video people in the gta need to learn how to merge. When traffic is backed up for miles you need to let people in when their lane is ending. 1 and 1 is a good way to keep both lanes flowing.
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