The best way to get to Wellington? On the ferry from Picton. Or in a 737.
I was working in Kapiti recently and noticed on the way home north that no one used the right-hand passing lane just south of Waikanae - everyone stayed in the left lane so there was no great rush to be 'first' at the end where it merges into one lane.
The problem is, it's not that people get impatient, it's that they have NO FUCKING IDEA how to merge when passing lanes end, so they all sit there, looking ahead and swearing black and blue that they won't let in the 'fuckwit' on their right!
So while I moan along with the rest of you, it does actually seem to prevent these bottle-necks in peak traffic.
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IMHO the root cause of the problem are the numpties who drive at 80kph compounded by those who speed up to 100kph on the passing lanes further compounded by those that use the passing lanes (while trying to stay as close to the speed limit as they can, for obvious reasons)
All this means that when a passing oppportunity arrises, many desperate road users charge into it in an attempt to get past said numpties leading to an "apparent" inability to merge properly.
I reckon we need more passing opportunities and a little more consideration from slower drivers. (And maybe the Police should avoid setting up their speed checks on passing lanes)
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There's a huge difference between:
* roads that are not full, where passing a "slow" person helps you get on with things, and
* roads that are at capacity, where the traffic is slow but it's not one person, it's the whole road.
When the roads are "full", passing a few people makes no difference to you. You still end up in the long long queue of slow traffic, just a few tens of metres further forward than your previous position. Even if everybody drove perfectly (merged properly at the ends of the passing lanes etc), passing lanes make no sense in full roads.
(What we need are four lanes, Auckland to Wellington, the whole bloody way. Passing lanes (on SH1) are for Third world countries.)
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