Big Rod wrote:
The way I see it Paul is basically similar to the ball bearing theory. If it's left to the last moment then it's going to cause congestion.
No, it would only get down to a merge at the cones situation
after the congestion has occurred.
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Believe me, I know that sometimes it's difficult to merge because of people 'bunching',
That's a mentality thing, those who have sat in L1 watching people make full use of teh road are so riled by the time they get to the front that they try to force the L2s out.
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Actually, in thinking about it, I think I might not've explained myself very well. It's not leaving it to the last gasp that I disapprove of perse, providing there's a space available,
If there is space availble to merge before the pinch then it's not a queue.
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Remember, even if the traffic's flowing at 40 MPH and the cars are two seconds apart, there'll not be enough space between the vehicles for a car to merge and get up to speed from a standstill without the requirement for someone to adjust the space between them and the car in front and consequently cause a domino effect up the line of traffic and in turn cause worse congestion.
If traffic is moving at 40mph with 2 second gaps then there is no reason for anyone to come to standstill.
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I'm basically in my own way trying to promote the steady flow of traffic,
You are not, you are promoting a long slow queue.
Join us in L2, bring half your friends, that's the only way to beat those damned queue jumpers.
It won't happen overnight, but if every time one of us goes past a queue in L2, one more person decides to join us then pretty soon it won't matter which queue you are in. So come on, be a trend setter instead of a sheep.