• TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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    6 days ago

    You can add throughput by zipper merging predictably all day long instead of every car jockeying for position and feeling entitled to block other road users from legally merging and causing all kinds of road rage based holdups though

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      5 days ago

      Yes, if people were able to drive like robots. Though once traffic is already slow in the through-lanes, rushing up to the end of the closed lane and cramming in HURTS THROUGHPUT. Always. For ever. Period.

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        5 days ago

        No it doesn’t. And people don’t every day, all over the world. Mostly without even needing signage.