Instead of queuing, why doesn't everyone just drive to the front in any empty lane then shove their way in whatever direction they want to go?
Also, instead of waiting for the car in front of you to finish turning left just swerve into oncoming traffic and go around them so you can get to the red light ahead sooner.
A 1998 Hilux with a landscaping trailer is technically a bus so feel free to use the bus lane to jump the queue at any set of lights.
If you've noticed that there's parked cars in your lane up ahead what you should do is accelerate to try to overtake as many cars as possible then wait until the last possible second to swerve into the second lane without indicating, don't worry, the other cars will get out of your way.
The "give way when turning right" rule doesn't apply to European 7-seaters so just pull out slowly and block three lanes of peak hour traffic instead of turning left and doing a 1 minute detour.
Can we get compulsory W-anchor plates for people convicted of criminal selfishness? Or at the very least just admit that road rules are optional and stop pretending that more speed cameras will fix it?
Posted by The_Motographer
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To be honest, I’m surprised they didnt turn right from the forward-only lane once they entered the intersection. After all, there’s a space in the traffic…
Is it wrong that because I have a big trailer that I tow around Melbourne all day when I see these sort of lanes I start driving in the middle of the road to stop the lane hoppers from fucking up the order??
Yep, that about sums it up
Omg this is all so true, I drive in Melbourne all day everyday and the place is full of arseholes , what ever happened to courtesy and patience?
True and I agree.
I am a right lane line up guy and hate ppl doing this
HOWEVER!……
Problem is I have two areas where I turn left on this rd where I have no choice but to be in the left lane and try to get to the right. I try to do it early but nobody lets me in so I end up at the front trying to merge and people didn’t see me turn INTO the street from the side street. So I look like an a-hole even though no choice.
Thoughts?
My toxic trait is that I enjoy baiting these people by leaving a little bit of a gap they think they can jump into and then not letting them in. I drive a shit box so I always win that game of chicken.
The difficulty here is determining when it’s an arsehole verse a genuine mistake. Some places the queue is so long it’s very possible, if you don’t know the area well, to not know that you’re supposed to be queuing for that right hand turn. Backed up traffic could be just for something turning into a driveway or an earlier street, right?
Now, of course, there are plenty of times when it is just arsehole behaviour; your standard tradie who thinks he has right of way everywhere and his “work” is more important than yours.
AND, as they say, Good drivers might miss their exits, bad drivers never do. Of course, if it is a genuine error, well, don’t push in, go straight through and find an alternate route. It’s this part that is the key – non-arsehole drivers become arsehole drivers, apologetically waving and begging to squeeze in and now holding up *two* lanes of traffic because they don’t understand that if they just went straight through they could probably just do a blocky and get where they wanted to go anyway.
And not to get too into the “the problem isn’t individuals it’s systemic” level, but if a long queue is happening that often at an intersection, then maybe it’s badly designed or not fit for needs. But sometimes it just happens.
The ripple effect of doing things like this needs to be shown to young drivers / new drivers
So much congestion is caused by unneeded braking
There is a roundabout in Williams Landing that frequently has a congested left turn but a forward and right lane at the roundabouts entrance, the amount of selfish people “turning right” who continue around the roundabouts to effectively make a left turn cutting the queue drove me nuts, it’s not clever it’s exploitative and selfish. Also, people would drive on the median strip grass to get to the entrance of this roundabout. 😡🤬
This should be posted in r/Hobart as well. Hate these drivers.
Go straight do a u turn. Done
Aaaahhhhh Melbourne, the land of complete and utterly cunty selfish drivers
I get caught out from this a lot as someone who doesn’t drive often. I’ll just be trying to follow maps directions and realise that I’m in the wrong lane. The road markings do not go back far enough to know if I should be in the queue or not and if the queue is for the turn that I need to take or before it.
Just don’t let them in
You can go through life thinking the worst of people, and live in hatred and misery.
or you can think the best of people and assume they made a mistake or have good reasoning, and see how easy it is to find happiness.
I see so many people work themselves up over the smallest inconsequential things.
Valid crashout
The traffic is queued up because there’s 2 lanes, but one lane is empty. If people knew how to zip merge, the full capacity of the road way could be used.
Mandatory prison sentence for line cutters
Thr problem is the right lane only opens up once you approach it and for some fr dumbass reason it’s like the government has built the absolute minimal amount of lanes possible especially for crucial roads that connect to diff parts of melb
The thing to remember in all of this:
You are not the police. It’s not your job to enforce the road rules. It’s not your job to force others to “do the right thing”. It’s not YOUR lane. It’s not your responsibility to teach other people a lesson.
The situation is always one of two things:
1. An honest mistake. Nothing is solved by being a dick here, let them in and move on with your life.
2. It’s deliberate, and they’re being a dick. Nothing is solved by multiplying the dickish behaviour. Let them in and move on with your life.
See how it works? Don’t be a dick. Don’t get worked up about other people being a dick.
Some timid shit will let them in.
That or someone who can not operate a car, or pay attention to traffic around them, will let them in due to the huge delay in their own movements.
You’ve missed the fact that it should be a solid white line down the middle. Many people aren’t aware that you’re not allowed to change lanes over solid lines although it’s obviously a grey area when all traffic is stopped
As a functioning adult, this stuff doesnt really bother me.
I used to believe we are all a “team” and waiting in line as you should, is the way to go about life (this was back when I was not an adult, but a potato) I’d get mad at ppl that cut in.
As an adult, I know that there are times where being on time, just isnt going to workout, the only variable, is traffic.
Cutting in, in my opinion, is better than someone speeding. Less risk on the road.
When I see people doing such things. I just assume they are late to something and they just need a bit of patience from someone else (and if its me) I dont mind because I am not in a rush at these times.
We are a team, but its all good, if you have 5 mins to spare in your commute. Keep.the music up and the vibes good. Just let em in.
Fucking hate when people do this. I get it, sometimes you get stuck in the wrong lane and if that happens you need to go straight on and then turn around.
It’s not just European 7 seaters that are dickheads. Ford ranger drivers are worse I feel.