(03-08-2018 12:15 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(03-07-2018 09:56 PM)Lush Wrote:  cincinnati has some awful drivers. being stranded in the middle of the intersection during a red light is a common sight. i just walk by those people and stare

and redwing tom's correct about the merging thing he was talking about..... if traffic is backed up and slowly moving. in such cases (usually construction) you're supposed to ride the empty line as long as you can

I think construction zones are a little different because you are not only losing a lane (or 2) but you have to go slower so it is going to back up. The theory applies to heavy traffic, as you mentioned. There are a lot of situations where that doesn't really apply. In those cases, even if the rule still applied, efficiency is not a big deal there and should defer to politeness. Like when a new line opens at the grocery store, I don't get out of my line and run over there in front of people who have been waiting in line longer.

I hate them doing construction after 4 in the afternoon. In Houston, they always shut it down during rush hour when they had minor construction. Here in Atlanta I am always getting backed up by construction trucks parked in blocked off lanes during rush hour.