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Zipper merge is not what this post is about. This post is about the people who pass the drivers who are zipper merging to get further along in the line.
And, if you still want to argue that the one driver who pulls this is "doing it the right way" and everyone else is wrong, then know that "technically right" doesn't always win. You need to "read the room", and follow what's happening to get along. Angrily flying ahead to "teach the idiots how it's done" doesn't work, because the "idiots" don't understand what you're doing.
The zipper merge is supposed to happen at the point where it goes from 2 lanes to 1, not earlier, so if there’s room for that guy to zoom past, everyone is doing it wrong.
You don't zipper merge before the lane actually closes
There is no zipper merging if traffic is already stopped.
That's just taking turns at that point.
I wasn't talking about traffic stopping, I was talking about the point at which the merge should take place
Should take place? Sure. Does it have to happen there? No.
The entire point is, if traffic is already slow, running up the closed lane to cram into already too full through-traffic IS NOT ZIPPER MERGING. It's being an asshole further slowing traffic.
If you are zipper merging before the lane closes you are doing it incorrectly. In a proper merge, there is no space for someone to overtake along since the zipper occurs right at the point that the lane closure has been created (and is usually designed at for a multitude of reasons)
Completely wrong.
Zipper merging is a merging technique. It doesn't give a fuck where it happens. Period. Ever.
What determines how many cars get through is ONLY determined by how many through-lanes there are and how fast traffic can flow. The morons flying up an empty closing lane just to cram into a lane that's already slow or stopped, ARE NOT ZIPPER MERGING. Ever. They're dipshits cutting in line. Period. Ever.
They NEVER help solve congestion. For fuck's sake, this is not a hard concept, but all you idiots apparently cannot even fathom why traffic slows down when a lane is GOING AWAY. Fuck, humanity is doomed if ya'll are even remotely 'average' intelligence...