Merging into traffic in Ottawa — why is this so hard?
Posted by Stephen on June 28th, 2007
Definition of merge: to blend gradually into something else …
Gradually … i.e. not pull up to the end of the merge lane and stop.
In this city, and indeed in Ontario generally, I have noticed drivers — even if I leave a space in front of me to drive into, at speed, and therefore preventing the need for our lane to stop dead — will not merge correctly.
Instead, they will drive to the end of the merge lane, then try to cut in.
Or they will stop, at the start of the merge lane, and wait for someone to let them in.
To all those drivers: please visit Montreal for two weeks. You’ll come back with an appreciation of the merge lane as a tool to be used.
Merci beaucoup.
