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re: Why does traffic on interstates ever come to a stop?
Posted on 11/29/18 at 6:21 am to WaydownSouth
Posted on 11/29/18 at 6:21 am to WaydownSouth
Bc of shitty drivers?
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Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:00 am to WaydownSouth
People trying to merge onto a 65-70 mph interstate going 40 in the merge lane.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:05 am to WaydownSouth
General public is incredibly stupid
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:15 am to Horsemeat
There was a trucker on reddit that had a sweet PS4 setup in his back cab. Also, reddit taught me about lot lizards? Am I using the correct term?
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:15 am to Horsemeat
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people merging onto an interstate at 35 mph when they've spent the entire time on the 1/2 mile ramp playing on their phones
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:15 am to WaydownSouth
one of life's great mysteries.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:19 am to WaydownSouth
Because out here we have more people trying to use the interstate than we have miles of roads. And people out here are fricking morons.
It’s raining this morning. That means I will take surface streets to work. No way I’m getting anywhere near the interstate. They can’t drive when it’s warm and dry, they sure as shite can’t drive when it’s raining.
It’s raining this morning. That means I will take surface streets to work. No way I’m getting anywhere near the interstate. They can’t drive when it’s warm and dry, they sure as shite can’t drive when it’s raining.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:20 am to LSU-MNCBABY
On I-65 south of Birmingham, they are adding lanes. There are multiple signs up along the interstate, before and during the contruction, that say "Trucks use left lane". 50% do, the other 50% don't, so you end up with tractor trailers using both lanes.
People absolutely, do not know how to merge. The on ramp is designed to build up speed to match or exceed the interstate traffic. More often than not, drivers are braking on the ramp, instead of accelerating.
I am convinced that "culcha" includes teaching your kids to hold the left lane, and only get in the right lane when your exit is 100 feet away.
People absolutely, do not know how to merge. The on ramp is designed to build up speed to match or exceed the interstate traffic. More often than not, drivers are braking on the ramp, instead of accelerating.
I am convinced that "culcha" includes teaching your kids to hold the left lane, and only get in the right lane when your exit is 100 feet away.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:24 am to Dawgholio
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Because one tractor trailer gets in the left lane of a 2 lane interstate and tries to pass another trucker and ends up riding side by side for 20 miles at 45 mph
This shite all the way to and from Phoenix 2 weeks ago. 3-5 trucks in line and the one at the back had to pass all the others. Traffic in both lanes backed up behind them doing 40.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:24 am to WaydownSouth
Domino effect?
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:39 am to AUCE05
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There was a trucker on reddit that had a sweet PS4 setup in his back cab. Also, reddit taught me about lot lizards? Am I using the correct term?
I've got a Xbone, but nothing extravagant because I'm a company driver- just a travel case lined with memory foam and a hdmi cable to the back of a 19" flat screen.
Lizards aren't as big of a problem as they were a decade ago - but they're starting to show up again now that craigslist and backpage got shut down.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:50 am to WaydownSouth
In my experience, most traffic jams can be attributed to one a-hole
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:53 am to WaydownSouth
Tons of people merging at bottle necks. Pretty simple really.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:53 am to bee Rye
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In my experience, most traffic jams can be attributed to one a-hole
It only takes one a-hole slamming on his brakes to get an entire feedback started.
Other times, when the interstate drops a lane, you can experience traffic jams with all the traffic merging.
This post was edited on 11/29/18 at 7:54 am
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:55 am to WaydownSouth
Congestion, accidents, tickets, gawkers, police, construction just to name a few.
Get a couple of those at once and it can back up for miles.
Get a couple of those at once and it can back up for miles.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 7:58 am to bee Rye
This is we here I'll also throw in that approx half of the ramps in urban and suburban areas need to be closed. Interstates weren't supposed to be used for people to get on i12 at Sherwood and off at Airline.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 8:02 am to tiger rag 93
There was a similar video posted a while back on here that showed how a single driver that taps their brakes and the domino effect it had bringing traffic to a dead stop.
The second reason is 18 wheelers. Especially, when they move out of the right lane to allow oncoming traffic to merge onto the interstate.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 8:06 am to Supermoto Tiger
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Especially, when they move out of the right lane to allow oncoming traffic to merge onto the interstate.
you mean when they do what you're supposed to do?
there are some bad 18 wheeler drivers, but in my experience most of them are the best on the road out of anyone.
the worst are people who think the left lane is a cruise at the speed limit lane, which causes people to use other lanes to pass them, which disrupts the flow of traffic.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 8:09 am to AUCE05
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Also, reddit taught me about lot lizards? Am I using the correct term?
Ha. Yes yous is. Ha.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 8:11 am to Horsemeat
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OTR trucker here, yes.
What kind of Quail-comm you using??
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