Finally, the law of the land. Only works if we all work together, people. #respectthezipper
https://abc7chicago.com/traffic/what-is-the-zipper-merge/5972855/?fbclid=IwAR2K_vESH1O10eiSOtjFrcmhFNc_cW3jcdNAlHA2ajGTQHT1iwtNM-WXIz8

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

A lady I know up in the Twin cities told me about this a few years ago. As a driver you feel like a jerk cutting in at the last minute, but she gave me the strength to be that jerk. I am actually helping alleviate traffic congestion by using the merging lane. As a side benefit, I get home to the old Pulte a few seconds faster.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Fuck all you jagoffs that cut over at the last minute, my car is shit, I'll hit your ass.

Will never work. Americans are too stupid/angry.

Pretty much. At least for the near future.

Maybe people will calm down when driving in a few years.

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I drive about 24K miles a year in this city's fucking traffic.

This is the truth. And it is supported by research I've read. While in traffic. While driving at 4 mph.

When you turn a bottle of water upside down, does it all line up along the side of the bottle? No. No it does not.

More roundabouts!

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-- source

All the water also violently crashes out.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

"Doc," he said, "Sometime when the crew is up against it, the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to get out there and give it all they got and win just one for the Zipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Doc," he said, "but I won't smell too good, that's for sure."

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Despite risking the anger of other drivers I have always done it that way. If for no other reason than the rationale, "I helped pay for this strip of concrete, I may as well use it."

Last couple years on the I-94 rebuild in Racine county they had signs demanding drivers to use both lanes to the merge point. It really does work better.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

I own the road. The rest of you watch out

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Great idea.


Terrible song.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George