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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
At Interstate cloverleafs a lot of the left laners will speed up to block you from moving left to let someone in the right-merge lane. I generally stay right unless it is less dangerous to move left.
If it works I will move to the left lane to let a mass of mergers enter the road without undue interference by me, which sometimes ticks off the left laners going 75 to 80 instead of 65-70.
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What the "fast people" don't understand is that in the ramp neighborhood, the lane that was the rightmost available lane
isn't available for through travel anymore. It's a mess of entering and exiting cars, and depending on traffic volume that mess may bleed over into the next lane as well. Traffic is being obstructed. Deal with it. Traffic that had been keeping right is going to divert around the obstruction, and that's going to cut into the higher speed lanes. Sorry, but there are fewer travel lanes here and I'm not diving into the scrum of merging traffic to avoid inconveniencing the folks who want to set & forget their cruise. I try to move left into a big gap, but if traffic is heavy I just move left sooner.
If it's possible to pass me on the right after I move left, shut up, do it and move on with your life: I apparently didn't obstruct you. If there isn't a chance to pass me on the right, it just proves my point- that the road is too congested in that area for unobstructed high speed runs. I'd prefer it to not be the case, but I'm not the guy who designed the ramp area. Write your congressman and ask for the road to be widened there so we can have another lane farther left.