I’m a tax payer and I’m going to drive in all the lanes I paid for then zipper merge when needed. If we all pile up in one lane because we are too collectively stupid to use all our lanes and zipper merge then we are the traffic we deserve.
The ONLY thing occupying both lanes to capacity does is kinda sorta sometimes reduce how physically long the backup is. Though if there is more traffic than the reduced lanes can handle, it WILL back up, and flying to the end of a lane that’s disappearing and merging into already full traffic only makes you a line-cutting asshole slowing more people down.
I’m a tax payer and I’m going to drive in all the lanes I paid for then zipper merge when needed. If we all pile up in one lane because we are too collectively stupid to use all our lanes and zipper merge then we are the traffic we deserve.
Spoilers: You are the traffic you deserve.
The ONLY thing occupying both lanes to capacity does is kinda sorta sometimes reduce how physically long the backup is. Though if there is more traffic than the reduced lanes can handle, it WILL back up, and flying to the end of a lane that’s disappearing and merging into already full traffic only makes you a line-cutting asshole slowing more people down.