cushT said:
If you drive leaving a large enough gap between you & the car infront, like you should be, letting someone out of a side road is of no consequence. What a selfish attitude to take!
In slow moving traffic, although you should be leaving a safe gap to be able to stop in, that is not the same as a safe gap for a car to pull out of a junction into. Letting a car out of a T-junction in that instance usually requires stopping the main flow of traffic. The volume of cars that should come out of a tiddly side road like Queensville Avenue should only be a few. The issue is that it isn't, due to a significant number of rat runners. People on Lichfield Road stopping to let these out is so frequent that it causes the whole queue to stop every time one is let out. This propogates backwards. 99% of those vehicles coming out of Queensville Avenue either have the option of going St Leonards and coming out on the lights, or could have used Riverway. So sod them, if they want to go that way, they can wait for a safe gap when they come to emerge onto the main road. I admit that there will be the odd car that has originated down there. It would be far better if rat running were stopped. Where large volumes of rat running cars are concerned it is "of consequence".
I bet you are one of those people that won't allow other motorists to merge in turn, for fear of them 'pushing in'
I will merge in turn where it is appropriate but this principle applies to where 2 lanes of traffic go into one, not the operation of a T-junction where the traffic on the main road has right of way. Where two lanes merge together there is arguably equal right of way. However, where there is a very short stretch of two lanes which then go into one, they tend to attract aggressive driving from a small number of cars who do push in to the point of driving dangerously.