Just got off work, 4 car pile up at the Mic Mac Mall. That my friends’ is not my bitch. Turned off on Woodland towards Victoria Drive and it’s loaded packed to the hilt – that is still not my bitch – Woodland is two lanes and as I said, as far as the eye could see it’s packed full of wanting to go home vehicles. People have been diverting to avoid the chaos that prevailed at the Mic Mac Mall area, then it began to happen.
For some fuc*in” reason people on the right lane think that it’s OK to go right up past the stagnant line up on the left lane as close to the light as possible and signal to move into that lane circumnavigating the long line that was there, and avoiding the freakin’ road ethics that are unwritten but must be followed.
You people piss me off! To the people in the left lane: STOP LETTING PEOPLE IN! What’s your dysfunction, damn, if you let one in, you gotta let them all in cause they are all watching the success story that just happened. I’m getting heated up just thinking about it now, time to go home, I’m done my shift. Grrr. —Warranted Road Rager
This article appears in Nov 11-17, 2010.
OP….it’s nice to follow all the rules, but this being Halifax takes a bit of skill to navigate these traffic snarls.
I hit the traffic backed up to the Lockheed Martin building on the 111…..seeing that both lanes were not moving, I merged over to the Burnside exit lane/ramp, went up to the light, went straight through the intersection, and then down the Burnside ramp and took the exit to Woodlawn behind Mic Mac Mall, up Glen Manor Drive in the right lane, turned right onto Crichton Avenue, made a legal turn in a residential driveway, and then back down Crichton Avenue towards Sullivans Pond. It saved me quite a bit of time instead of waiting on the 111 or in the left turning lanes of other side streets.
I’d like the city to start penalizing drivers who cause accidents that results in huge traffic snarls in Halifax. Apparently there was also an accident on the 102 outbound by a speeding truck that flipped and blocked both lanes at the same time.
Heh….. so your bitch is against your own inability to seize opportunity……
seize opportunity by being a douche, maybe.
I know I don’t let people in like that.
and here we have a lesson for lemmings, don’t go to the slow lanem,it just prolongs the agony of waiting to croak.
I DO NOT let any of these fucktards in. I will absolutely always do my best to block these asshats out.
This is where people ALL think they’re the better drivers.
These “fcktards” also think they are the better drivers because they are able to get to the front and therefore to their destination faster. I’m usually one of the “herd” in the lineup, but I’ve had an occasion or two to be the passenger in a friend’s car. He IS a nice guy until he gets behind the wheel.. However, being with him in his car, I believe many of them are Type A, or very competitive personalities. Perhaps even a few psychotics amongst them..
I must admit, I’m not a perfect driver myself. I’ve driven taxi and delivered pizza however, and knowing the streets of HRM very well, I try to plan around the traffic accidents/construction of the day. I’m often home (from downtown) to Sackville area in about 25 min. and I’m finished at work at around 5:45-6pm.
I’m with zZz and Broc on this one.
I have had people who I saw pull out of the “herd” line into the other line, gun it, then try to get in front of me, will get inches away from my bumper waving an angry fist at me to let them back in, and I just give them a look like really? You really think that I’m going to let you in. Hit me fucker, go for it…see who pays for the damage.
Oh and even worse is when you are on a highway, and fuckers drive on the side of the road…the part with gravel, no pavement, then gun it up and try to get back in line. And people fucking let them in! It pisses me off so much. It’s one thing to have maybe been lost, not realized the road is turning into one lane, or whatever, we’ve all done it, I can be forgiving. But letting someone in who isn’t even on the road! Come on.
I may have a few bitter feelings involving this topic…
By using all available space you would prevent needlessly blocking intersections or highway exits behind you. It is illegal to purposely block a merging car from entering a lane; therefore, cars in the continuing lane have no more rights than cars merging into it. If all drivers realized this, wouldn’t we rationally use both lanes to better utilize road space?
OP I couldn’t agree with you more. I wait my turn in line and so should everyone else. I can’t control what other people do but I can sure as hell make sure I don’t let them in. I actually look at them and shake my head. I hate those people
I agree with answer 100 percent. If there is a traffic hold up and everyone lines up in a single straight line, it blocks off exits and other merging roads. It is way more efficient to ultilize both lanes and have the cars in the front of the lines go one for one.
Answer, what merge rule is that? Leaving aside merging from entrance ramps, the NS MVA discusses what happens when two lanes coalesce into one (the left lane yields to the right unless signs direct otherwise), and there’s discussion about overtaking and passing, but there’s nothing there like what you say.
If various lanes are marked to go left, straight and right, or subsets thereof, and you are either mistakenly or purposely in the wrong lane, you wanting to be an asshole and get into a different lane to skip ahead of 20 or 40 cars isn’t what we call a “merge”, it’s just assholishness, and no traffic regulation requires me to let you in.
Right on Realist. Perfect place to fuck up these asshats is heading to the Mackay Bridge and Barrington St coming from the Windsor St exchange. If you’re in the far right lane, you’re exiting onto the bridge, if you’re in the left lane, you’re exiting onto Barrington St. Any of you who think its okay to cut in from the Barrington St exit lane into the bridge exit lane at the last second or to get ahead of a few cars deserve to be blocked out. That will be me flipping the finger at you as you’re fucked in the wrong lane
And right on BRoc. 🙂
What Answer and Sheamoose are trying to excuse is prick behaviour. If you’ve got multiple lanes and all go straight for the foreseeable future, guess what, you’re on a highway someplace, and we’re not talking about highways here. Otherwise you’re on a city street, and each and every one of those multiple lanes is required to do *something* relatively soon – go straight, turn left, or turn right.
Furthermore, 98 percent of the drivers on HRM urban roads are familiar with them, so if you see some cock assertively zoom – in a lane meant to turn left – past 25 cars that are in the *one and only* lane meant to go straight, and then try to cut in, they are probably not from Barrington Passage or East Apple River.