Geez, how stupid can people be?? The highway I take to work (Route 66 for all you DC-area dopers) is set up weird in regards to HOV. In the suburbs, it has the left-most lane of four set up as HOV-2 for carpoolers. Then inside the Beltway (closer in to DC) it’s HOV-2 completely – all vehicles with only one person have to get off on the Beltway.
So what ends up happening during rush hour is a huge backup in the three righthand lanes to get onto the Beltway, and considerably less of a backup in the left lane, which speeds up as you approach the Beltway, and goes extremely smoothly (no traffic at all) when the entire highway becomes HOV. VDOT even added a left exit onto the highway at the Beltway four years ago so drivers wouldn’t have to leave the left lane to merge onto the Beltway. Easy as pie, no waiting involved!
But no … some people are too stupid to see alllll the signs about the left exit onto the Beltway. They have to slow the HOV lane down to a freaking crawl while they try to wedge their cars into the line of completely stopped traffic to their right. Traffic which has already waited 10-20 minutes in this lineup and don’t like someone trying to sneak in at this point. Oh, and this is traffic which STILL has another 10-20 minutes of waiting time before they’re on the Beltway finally.
So they slow down the entire HOV lane so they can wait 10-20 more minutes than they really should. They definitely deserve what they get. If only their stupidity didn’t effect me too.
The same thing happens here in the Bay Area (California). Driving from Oakland into The City, the first exit is available on both the left and the right side and end up pretty much in the same place. It’s amazing the number of morons that will start out in the left lane and cut across to the right at the last minute.
Or even worse, they start out in the right lane, cut to the left, take the exit and then cross solid white lines to end up in the same lane as if they had taken the right-side exit.
Of all the drivers that I hate, the ones that I hate the most - the ones that make me want to strike them down with a plague of boils - are the ones that intentionally use the wrong lane so that they can queue jump. This seems to me the very height of arrogance and selfishness - how dare you think that your time is more important than that of the people that have been patiently queuing? And how dare you hold people up in the other lane who have to now wait for you to merge? Fuckers. Utter fucking fuckers. I hate you.
There is a street in the city I live in that just attracts the stupid people. It’s a 2 lane street (one way) the left hand side is for cars, vans etc. The right hand side is painted red, with white lettering saying “bike and bus only”, also at every other intersection there are signs saying no right hand turns, and when the light turns green it is just an arrow pointing straight up. So if you are a normal person driving a car you would be in the left hand lane and only make left turns, right? HA HA HA this street must be the equator of the stupid world, not only do they all disregard the signs, and the big red part of the road, and the green pointing arrow with the no turn signs, they think its alright to stop in the left lane and unload stuff!!! If you are that stupid and allowed to drive then you should only be alowed to drive clown cars or golf carts. Don’t even get me started of what they do when the light turns yellow and they are about 50 feet away.