Has anyone seen zipper merging work in America?
Has anyone seen zipper merging work in America?
Edit: I'm not quite sure how cross posting works here. I just saw this post in asklemmy and thought it could generate some interesting discussions in this community. I don't have any opinion on the matter.
Yes? Almost always actually.
Maybe we're thinking of two different things. Could you clarify exactly what you're talking about?Can second that my way as well. There is a occasional pushy car or confused driver, but it works well.
We have an area that perfected more of a "H" merge too, where 2 lanes start, cross if needed, and 2 lanes exit. The road isn't even striped accordingly! It's just what is needed and the locals sort of adapted as a collective.
I think of is asking about this. Essentially like the teeth of a zipper when two lanes merge the lanes alternate which car merges into the single lane.
Yah. That's what I was thinking too.
And yah, it more-or-less always works.
Northern California, no. Too many polite people combined with a subset of entitled assholes, both screw up the perfect zipper. Southern California, where you will be shot if you don't zipper merge properly, it works perfectly. South bound interstate 5 exit to the Pasadena 110 freeway south is a thing of beauty to drive and appreciate a zipper merge.
Yep, no problems here whether in a car or on my motorcycle.
Define working? I had always heard that for a merge to work correctly everyone needs to wait until the last moment to merge not do it as soon as possible. Certainly at low volumes merges work, but in heavy traffic it causes slow downs.
I haven't driven in a few years but whenever it did happen I had a small thrill of pride in the drivers around me
No never. Maybe one or two cars but not a full on zipper merge working. Traffic always stops lets people in then if someone tries further ahead blocks them.
Never works in the Boston metro. You always end up with a backup of idiots that cause major issues when people who know how to zipper drive to the start of the queue and try and merge in. Then you end up with cunts in both lanes being cunts to each other all to save 30 seconds on a trip that will take 30 minutes or more to a go a few miles.
Never.