It's a shame more Aucklanders haven't figured it out, going a bit slower gets everyone home faster. and the on ramp lights don't do their job because everyone takes off as fast as they can until they have to come to a grinding halt
Honesty don't think aucklanders are worse than us all, there's just more, more often. Very few nelson drivers have a clue how to merge.
bwg11,
Sep 8, 2:37pm
Here comes some blatant sexism. I'll be pilloried along with the Speaker of the House for sexism. Been driving around Christchurch most of the day, I drive a big SUV and as I am retired never in a hurry and am courteous in merging situations. If I have to single out a group of drivers who refuse to do the ,"merge like a zip", and push for one place, it would have to be women in their 20's and 30's driving crappy cars.
pestri,
Sep 8, 3:26pm
Many Auckland drivers have not figured out the merging process. FGS people accelerate into the gaps!
Don't drive ever more slowly and expect the traffic around you to slow down to accommodate you.
crankypants69,
Sep 8, 4:57pm
At peak times, everything is virtually stopped. Nobody can accelerate into anything
pestri,
Sep 8, 6:55pm
NS Sherlock. Guess I was not refereing to peak times then was I? Groan.
crankypants69,
Sep 10, 11:37am
Cheer up old boy
socram,
Sep 10, 4:46pm
Reading up about this some time ago, the problems ALWAYS start with someone going too slowly, backing up traffic behind them. Every time I travel over the Harbour Bridge for example, with an 80kph speed limit, there are vehicles only doing 50kph, many of which have no excuse. Laden trucks and other slow moving vehicles that cannot climb the bridge at 80kph, need to be restricted to a 'slow' lane.
Ditto, the fact that people don't move over or keep left after overtaking. Middle and outer lane hogs cause the initial snarl up and that tends to get people lane swapping and reducing the safety margins, forcing the people behind to slow and that is when the traffic starts to snarl up.
Roadworks on the UK motorways normally means an 80kph limit. Generally speaking, the traffic in all lanes moves at - 80kph. Well it does until you come across grandma in her Nissan Micra who has never driven faster than 65kph - and never will, or a breakdown.
So yes. Totally agree. Drivers don't merge correctly and far too many don't seem to understand that trundling down an on ramp at 50kph isn't going to slot into traffic doing 85kph.
It has also been proven in the UK, that just one person braking unnecessarily in the right hand lane, hiccups back for 20 miles.
mooy,
Jul 11, 4:05am
I get really annoyed with the "cheaters" often I sit for a long time in a lane to say make a left turn onto the motorway and a lot of drivers push to the front by going up the faster lane and then pushing in front at the last moment. They save time but waste everyone else's. Most of them have Chinese trinkets hanging off the rear vision mirrors. I think most drivers are selfish and only are concerned about get themselves to their destination as fast as they can and stuff everyone else.
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