Merge In Turn, why does no one do it properly!

[Avocet]

Apart from the part I made bold, I would have done exactly as you did.

Leftmost lane, unless you can't.

In the case of lane reduction though, it's wrong, and we should try to force ourselves to use both, but human nature is a peculiar thing! Traffic would flow better and more cars would get through the bottleneck in a given time, but we Brits just aren't wired like that!

 

[dishman]

Apart from the part I made bold, I would have done exactly as you did.

Leftmost lane, unless you can't.

This is true, but it was a while ago, so I can't actually remember how long I stayed in the left lane before moving to the middle expecting the merge (which never came). The left lane may have actually been been X'd. I can't quite remember.

 

[dishman]

Well, it happened again!

Travelling up the M1, and the gantry indicated that the outside three lanes were closing.

As I was already travelling in the inside most lane already, I initially ended up in the inevitable queue.

But after rechecking the signs, I realised that all the other lanes were still live and it was actually a merge in turn at some point ahead.

So after sitting for in the queue for about 30 seconds, I pulled out and travelled past about 2 miles or so of single lane queue and sure enough, there was a gradual merge at the closure point.

I think I only received one angry beep and a passive aggressive flash along the way. But it saved me about 20 minutes of ghost queuing.

The gantry sign was not exactly the best I have seen as it did not actually properly communicate there was a merge. But the lanes were not X'd, which is why I took a moment to be sure.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

What symbol was showing in the gantry signs?

 

[dishman]

It was essentially one of these, but on a gantry