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March 16, 2006
What's so hard about merging?
Yesterday, I was driving along I-95 and I noted again how much merging screws up traffic. There's a lot of construciton going on along 95 right now that involves lanes shifting and closing. Listening to the traffic report, there were at least two accidents in these sorts of areas while I was in the car and I personally noticed that it was a little scary being a part of a merge. What is so difficult about taking turns? Why do people try to cut others off when they need to merge in? I had someone almost run into me at 65 miles an hour, because he had to be in front of me, couldn't let me merge into the lane. Later, I sat with a big space in front of me, trying to let a car in, and had to wait for him to decide that he wasn't going to get a better spot, he had to merge because the lane was gone. Duh! How hard is this? Why can't people figure it out? It's not like it's a skill that you learn, then completely forget about, because you never have to use it, like parking on a hill or parallel parking (I grew up in the 'burbs, I had to re-learn to parallel park when I moved to the city, and I still sucked at it). We have to merge all the time. What's the big freakin' deal?
Posted by Janice Ryan at March 16, 2006 12:24 AM
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