(08-07-2019, 02:01 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote:(08-07-2019, 01:05 PM)KevinT Wrote: A Kitchener participant on the Canada's Worst Driver show a few years ago specifically asked Cam Woolley (former OPP Sergeant) if she had to merge left at the Sportsworld to Hwy 8 North on-ramp, and his answer was basically "Yes, absolutely." I'm sure it was just a mis-understanding of our local ramps on his part, but I face-palmed hard. That participant did _not_ need their bad behaviour re-enforced by a trusted spokesperson on national TV.
There are two lanes of ramp for a reason. People always look at me when I continue past them in the right lane like I am in the wrong. Well I ask you, how far before the 300 metre merge warning sign should I merge ? A km before hand? sooner ? then what is the point of building the lane? The lane is there to take on the additional volume of traffic. Use it....
In this specific case there isn't even a merge. Two lanes of northbound Hwy 8 become three where the ramp from Maple Grove/Sportsworld joins it as a new lane, then four where the ramp from King St joins it as a new lane. The lane count doesn't go down for several kilometres until it splits/ends/becomes King St at the expressway. That's the local knowledge that Cam Woolley didn't have (or failed to consider) in his televised answer.
...K