@hiltonholloway@graeme_cobb They are huge. Longer than a LR Discovery. I had many. Then they stopped making them and I got Mondeo Estates, then they stopped and I have been in Kugas. Downgrade each time.
There is only one resource. The bottleneck. Forcing late merging may slow progress through the bottleneck more, not less.
I can see it is pertinent when the queue backs up into and obstructs other turnings, but on a motorway/freeway the length of the queue is irrelevant, it’s the time sitting in it that counts, and that is set by the bottleneck.
@deeharvey@SimonMagus@RetroRobson There are three solutions to free rider problems:
A high trust society where opprobrium of your peers limits behaviour.
Give the free ride to everyone.
Crack down hard on free riders, which will lead to valid users being negatively affected.
There are no other ways.
Space usage is less important than flow. You can wish people would merge quickly and skilfully as much as you like, but if they won’t, it’s irrelevant.
I had a similar argument with a highway engineers over a junction design. He was more worried about road space utilisation, than the people stranded unable to joint the roundabout because all the frequent users are in the “wrong” lanes.