Instant Karma on the M4

Mercdriver

George_Michael wrote: »

What need is there to guess about anything?
The OP clearly stated that the vehicle in question was in a lane that had closed and not that it was approaching a lane that was about to close.


To me, the context is fine.

Because many refer to the matrix displaying an arrow as closed, and in that position the AL car wouldn't have been in the wrong to have been in the lane he was moving from.

Quite a difference.

George_Michael

Mercdriver wrote: »

Because many refer to the matrix displaying an arrow as closed, and in that position the AL car wouldn't have been in the wrong to have been in the lane he was moving from.

Quite a difference.

In which case, the many you refer to are wrong where as what the OP stated was correct as they clearly stated that the lane was closed.
If someone stated that a car was exceeding the speed limit would you think that it was approaching a speed limit sign or that it had already passed it? because that it what you are doing here.
The OP clearly stated the vehicle was driving in a closed off lane and your argument seems to be that they might have meant a lane with an arrow to indicate that the lane was about to close.
Quite a difference.

Robisere

bigadaj wrote: »

Would have been interesting to see how thing would have turned out if he's pulled in anyway, wouldn't have gone well for you or the cars around you.

To you and to the A-Duck:
This is a regular occurrence and the drivers who regularly travel this road have united against those who try to push in: NO ONE lets them in, why the morons keep doing it is beyond me. Driver's windows are opened and a forest of one-fingered salutes appear. There are signs all the way down the gradient, which a small minority choose to ignore. At least, I hope they are just ignoring them: the alternative makes me wonder how they are still on the road.

iltisman

In our multicultural society I would give the Motorway policing job to the Taliban. Drivers should be dragged from their vehicles and publicly flogged for cutting in at the last minute.

Mercdriver

Robisere wrote: »

To you and to the A-Duck:
This is a regular occurrence and the drivers who regularly travel this road have united against those who try to push in: NO ONE lets them in, why the morons keep doing it is beyond me. Driver's windows are opened and a forest of one-fingered salutes appear. There are signs all the way down the gradient, which a small minority choose to ignore. At least, I hope they are just ignoring them: the alternative makes me wonder how they are still on the road.

This actually isn't what the OP is talking about which I was actually attempting to make sure was clear.

However, in your case, people in your area clearly enjoy longer queues. The lane isn't closed until the closure point. If people could learn to merge properly, those that currently dart down the outside cutting in late, would get there slower and everyone else would get there more quickly if people used all available lanes and merged like a zip.

bigadaj

Robisere wrote: »

To you and to the A-Duck:
This is a regular occurrence and the drivers who regularly travel this road have united against those who try to push in: NO ONE lets them in, why the morons keep doing it is beyond me. Driver's windows are opened and a forest of one-fingered salutes appear. There are signs all the way down the gradient, which a small minority choose to ignore. At least, I hope they are just ignoring them: the alternative makes me wonder how they are still on the road.

You've got a lot of time on your hands, which is obviously why you drive in that manner.

Jonesya

Mercdriver wrote: »

However, in your case, people in your area clearly enjoy longer queues. The lane isn't closed until the closure point. If people could learn to merge properly, those that currently dart down the outside cutting in late, would get there slower and everyone else would get there more quickly if people used all available lanes and merged like a zip.

To merge like a zip you need to be travelling at the same speed and have a reasonable gap between cars, with plenty of road and time to adjust your position and smoothly merge - that means you have to merge early.

The drivers that wait right to the end, end up having to slow down as they approach the closure (in case they have to stop) or worse they end up stopping and then merging at a snails pace, slowing down everyone.

You can merge at 60mph when you've got a 1 mile of road ahead of you, you can't when you've only got 100ft because you face crashing into the barrier/or forced onto hard-shoulder.

shaun_from_Africa

Robisere wrote: »

To you and to the A-Duck:
This is a regular occurrence and the drivers who regularly travel this road have united against those who try to push in: NO ONE lets them in, why the morons keep doing it is beyond me.

So rather than letting another vehicle pull in, the drivers who "have united" have decided to become private road traffic enforcement and would rather risk being partially to blame for an accident instead of being the bigger man and letting the other drivers pull in.

IMO, this makes them even bigger morons than the other drivers as they have preplanned their aggressive behaviour.

Aylesbury_Duck

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

So rather than letting another vehicle pull in, the drivers who "have united" have decided to become private road traffic enforcement and would rather risk being partially to blame for an accident instead of being the bigger man and letting the other drivers pull in.

IMO, this makes them even bigger morons than the other drivers as they have preplanned their aggressive behaviour.

Yep. Collective vigilantism is bound to end in tears.