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| Written by Jono Cono I always find it interesting to watch what people are doing behind me while I’m driving and see how much they see. Watching probably isn’t the best word as it’s more checking intermittently when I check my mirrors.
I find that most people don’t look far enough up the road while they’re driving. For instance if I see a car parked up ahead in my lane I change lanes early so it’s not an issue. As I’m driving along I’ll check my mirrors to see how long it takes cars behind in the other lane to also change lanes. Most people don’t switch lanes until the last moment.
Tonight as I was driving back into Kanata there were lane closures just after Bayshore where the 416 dumps out onto the 417. As I look up ahead I can see a huge lit sign that says “LEFT LANE CLOSED”. I switch lanes early only to continually watch people drive up the left lane so that they can cut in front of everyone else. Doing such a thing only slows traffic down even more making people wait. If everyone left a little more space and merged earlier traffic would keep flowing and no one would have to stop. That would of course make it to easy. People who drive down a lane knowing that it’s closed or ends just to try and cut in front of people are just making slow traffic even slower.
