stormcat
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Hilarious! I thought that image was part of your sig, so I didn't think to click on it. Pretty much the same place as my pic too.
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****ing old man merges into my lane TWICE
- Thread starter Jlin
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Hilarious! I thought that image was part of your sig, so I didn't think to click on it. Pretty much the same place as my pic too.
That's pretty much an everyday occurrence. There are a couple of riders who are particularly bad, but that's in comparison to literal scores of car drivers doing the same sort of thing.
skinnydragon
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GayManLoveIsOK
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ahahaha...i couldn't see any problem with the video...i ride in toronto too much, this is a daily occurrence when i would ride in and out...you leave way too much space in front of you, so that invites people to try ...stop whining and go ride in the country...
stormcat
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Noobs.
How long have you been riding? You must be a dinosaur with a lot of battle scars.
Jlin
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I watched the video. He wasn't exactly owning his lane. I don't see the point in fighting with cagers when you're on a bike. It's a losing battle for the rider. Guaranteed. Being assertive to a certain degree is fine when it comes to merging traffic on the highway. Going beyond that might get you killed. And you know what? There will always be egocentric jerks in cars and on bikes. E.g., You wouldn't believe the number of times I've seen idiots on bikes sprint up the merge lane AND then the shoulder on the 410 just after the 407 to get past rush hour traffic. That's some serious ego.
How many of those bikes merge right beside the car? the point of this thread is the fact that the guy merged right into my occupied lane.
gtm
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Yeah, but everyone would rather run to the end of the merge lane and then try to merge, even if there is an opening at the start of the merge lane... You know, gotta get that extra bunch of cars ahead.
I actually applaud people who don't let such people in. I am one of those people.
Rimbambito
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I saw nothing wrong, other then your lane postion.
Jlin
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How so?
invictus43
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Oh he's a dinosaur..
You know me, I'm all about the dinosaurs.
Getting "advice" from people with numbers in their classification always makes me giggle.
Griffin
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Why would you not want people to make use of the available roadway to reduce congestion? If you take your approach to its logical extension, you would get out of the right lane eastbound on the 401 in Ajax because it does drop to two lanes 50 kms or so further on and you wouldn't want to irritate anyone by changing lanes when the lane actually ends.
Get over this, please. If people would actually merge at the end of the merging lanes, which is what's intended to happen, traffic would move more smoothly. Also, if everyone was properly merging at the end of the lane, there wouldn't be a wide open lane tempting the impatient to pull out onto it to get ahead a dozen car lengths.
nesobriquet
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Unbelievable..
First, it is NOT intended that everyone wait till the end, have you never heard of buffer room? That is why a merge lane is as long as they are...to allow room to accelerate (during non rush-hour..in rush-hour you might have to merge down to their speed) and merge with the other freeway traffic.
Which brings us to;
Second, a merge lane is not and should NOT EVER be considered a wide open lane as a temptation to anyone!..LOL
It is, and always has been, illegal to move into a merge lane from a different lane. It is only allowable to move/merge OUT of a merge lane.
People that deliberately wait until the last second in a merge lane to move over into traffic and ignore a huge gap that I leave them, are among my greatest pet peeves on the roads.
It is right up there with swinging wide in the opposite direction to which they are turning into a driveway, because their big fat Honda Fit *** might sidewipe the mailbox post...etc etc etc This type of turning as if everyone and their uncle drove 70' tractor trailers into driveways is among the WORST 'taught' act of driving passed down by dear old dad or mom, in the history of driving. And it applies to soccer moms and dads in their Honda Fit, equally as if they were driving their full 4 door, 8' box pc of **** humungous F350 dually. They just don't need to go into the opposite lane 3' in order to make the turn. They are NOT that big! If you realize you do that, STOP IT NOW! If a friend knows someone who does it, tell them to stop it.. like yesterday.
invictus43
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It depresses me to think how old the bikes I like are!! Sigh..Dinosaurs Unlimited.
I loved that steel Ritchey that Frischknict used to ride..where do you find these things!!
Griffin
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To your second point, that was also my point.
To the rest as it relates to merge lanes (not the unrelated stuff about wide turns), I disagree completely and think you're misguided. Oh well.
In the same way that many others have commented upon. You were blocking left, when your greatest danger was clearly on the right. You created a space that was very tempting to car drivers, who were trying to make it past just one more vehicle before merging in.
I'm sorry but you are completely, impossibly, colossally, monumentally incorrect.
The merge lane, also referred to in law and documentation as the "acceleration lane", has a specific purpose. That purpose is to permit traffic to get up to sufficient speed so as to match that of ambient traffic, and then merge. If it takes you the entire acceleration lane in order to do so, then your trunk is loaded with lead bricks.
If you are waiting until the end of the merge lane in order to do so, then you are failing to find a free space in traffic, in which to merge. It is the responsibility of the merger to do so. It is the responsibility of ambient traffic to leave adequate following spaces, that can be used by mergers in order to do so. If you run up to the end of the merge lane, and then force your way in, you're creating an accordion style back-flow, that is slowing down ALL following traffic.
*EDIT* In case you don't remember it, I'll provide the applicable section of the Driver's Handbook, that you were required to read in order to take your written test.
Entering a freeway
There are usually two parts to a freeway entrance: an entrance ramp and an acceleration lane. In this lane, drivers raise their speed to the common speed of traffic on the freeway before they merge with it.
As you move along the freeway entrance ramp, look ahead and check your mirrors and blind spots to assess the traffic to see where you will move into the nearest freeway lane.
As you leave the ramp and enter the acceleration lane, signal and increase your speed to merge smoothly with traffic. Freeway drivers should move over, if it is safe to do so, leaving room for merging vehicles.
A few entrance ramps join the freeway on the left. This means you enter the fastest lane of traffic first. Use the acceleration lane to match your speed to the traffic, increasing your speed more quickly.
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bboySushi
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I don't think it's common courtesy even, I believe it is written somewhere that those driving in the right hand lane on a highway must yield to merging vehicles. It's the opposite of what you'd think (opposite from that North bound ramp going onto HWY 10 where you yield to traffic).
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