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gemfyreThe title would have been better, but I ran out of space.
On the way to work in the morning I go through various intersections (for those of you who don't know, I'm in Australia, we drive on the left). Quite often I have people barge in front of me or worse, try to change lanes INTO me because they wanted to overtake everyone else and/or didn't plan their route ahead of time, like I did.
This is the first intersection where this occurs.
I'm approaching from the right here. The left turn sliplane leads to the freeway on-ramp. I want to go straight ahead, across the freeway overpass. I'm in the left lane like a good little driver, but it IS peak hour so I don't blame people for being in either lane. Except for those people who DO want to turn left here down the freeway but for some reason are in the right lane. They have to indicate frantically and find a gap to slip through so they can turn, barging in on cars going straight ahead in the left lane.
Here is the second intersection.
I DO turn left here, and I keep to the left lane, you'll see why in a bit. Of course, we still have people who want to turn left but for some reason insist on staying in the right lane until the last minute, where they have to shove themselves into the stream of moving traffic in the left lane to get around. *sigh*
Now the next intersection is the most fun, here's where I often have people trying to change lanes while I am right beside them in the space that they want their car to be in.
Okay. I'm in the left lane. I want to turn right. But that's okay because both lanes DO turn right. If you want to turn left you move into the sliplane. Many people want to be in the left lane AFTER they make this right turn because not far down from there is a left turn that many people make. But STILL there are plenty of people who stick in the right lane to the last minute.
It's extra fun at this intersection because the people turning left often back up the main part of the road before the sliplane starts. Here I am happily sitting among them, intending to go straight ahead to the lights in front of me to turn right. People in the right lane are roaring past and many are dashing back into the left lane after the pass the bank up of cars turning left, so this row of cars is on a kind of angle from the left lane to the right lane as people move across.
Now, the lights go green and traffic starts moving. People in the right lane are still trying to get into the left so they are already in the left lane after turning right, they're all sitting there, indicators flashing. I guess a lot of them simply assume that because I'm in the left lane, behind the bank up of cars that ARE turning left, that I must want to turn left as well, to they position themselves to move across as I move across.
Of course, I DON'T move across because I'm going straight ahead. Many notice this and eventually roar forward or fall back to get into the lane ahead or behind me (sometimes they end up stuck in that right lane). But some don't pay attention to the fact that I'm already there and start to move over. I have to honk to get them to realise that hey, there's a car here already!
These people still stuck in the right lane will just barge across a bit later once they are around the corner. An often stationary bus in the left lane just adds to the fun.
On the way to work in the morning I go through various intersections (for those of you who don't know, I'm in Australia, we drive on the left). Quite often I have people barge in front of me or worse, try to change lanes INTO me because they wanted to overtake everyone else and/or didn't plan their route ahead of time, like I did.
This is the first intersection where this occurs.
I'm approaching from the right here. The left turn sliplane leads to the freeway on-ramp. I want to go straight ahead, across the freeway overpass. I'm in the left lane like a good little driver, but it IS peak hour so I don't blame people for being in either lane. Except for those people who DO want to turn left here down the freeway but for some reason are in the right lane. They have to indicate frantically and find a gap to slip through so they can turn, barging in on cars going straight ahead in the left lane.
Here is the second intersection.
I DO turn left here, and I keep to the left lane, you'll see why in a bit. Of course, we still have people who want to turn left but for some reason insist on staying in the right lane until the last minute, where they have to shove themselves into the stream of moving traffic in the left lane to get around. *sigh*
Now the next intersection is the most fun, here's where I often have people trying to change lanes while I am right beside them in the space that they want their car to be in.
Okay. I'm in the left lane. I want to turn right. But that's okay because both lanes DO turn right. If you want to turn left you move into the sliplane. Many people want to be in the left lane AFTER they make this right turn because not far down from there is a left turn that many people make. But STILL there are plenty of people who stick in the right lane to the last minute.
It's extra fun at this intersection because the people turning left often back up the main part of the road before the sliplane starts. Here I am happily sitting among them, intending to go straight ahead to the lights in front of me to turn right. People in the right lane are roaring past and many are dashing back into the left lane after the pass the bank up of cars turning left, so this row of cars is on a kind of angle from the left lane to the right lane as people move across.
Now, the lights go green and traffic starts moving. People in the right lane are still trying to get into the left so they are already in the left lane after turning right, they're all sitting there, indicators flashing. I guess a lot of them simply assume that because I'm in the left lane, behind the bank up of cars that ARE turning left, that I must want to turn left as well, to they position themselves to move across as I move across.
Of course, I DON'T move across because I'm going straight ahead. Many notice this and eventually roar forward or fall back to get into the lane ahead or behind me (sometimes they end up stuck in that right lane). But some don't pay attention to the fact that I'm already there and start to move over. I have to honk to get them to realise that hey, there's a car here already!
These people still stuck in the right lane will just barge across a bit later once they are around the corner. An often stationary bus in the left lane just adds to the fun.
