Who are you in these situations?

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Not really an AIBU, just wondering who you are in this situation as we’re on a car journey and discussing it.

There’s two lanes of traffic, clearly signed that one lane is going to close off. The left lane is backed up and barely moving causing a big backup, while people fly up the right lane and force their way in at the front, thus saving themselves 15 mins of queuing, but also adding time to the people queuing by forcing their way in front.

We were in the left lane, queuing as I see proper, but also feeling the appropriate rage towards the people flying past us. The car in front of us doing a lot of head shaking and wanker signs towards the queue cutters.

When we got to the front of the queue, DH let some of the cars in. I would have written off my car trying to not let them in.

So, do you queue or would you be a right laner? And do you let them in?
YABU - take the right lane and go past the queue and save time
YANBU - queue like a civilised person but add time on your journey

I used to do what you do until I learnt that the Highway Code says both lanes should be used so that people can merge in turn at the front. So now I use the shorter lane (which is almost always the one that is going to close). Sometimes people don’t want to let me in but I have no idea if they’re making wanker signs because I don’t look at them. I just crawl along slowly until someone lets me in- which tends to happen pretty quickly. Van drivers are often the most generous IME.

I recommend it OP- your blood pressure will thank you for it!

Op needs to revisit the Highway Code and learn how to drive properly

Of course it's right to use the right lane as well as the left.

The only reason I don't is because I'd feel stressed.

Interesting difference between the poll and comments, thought it would have been 100% YABU according to comments.

Oh well, I’m still not letting any of you in.

You do that. The rest of us will just laugh as we are passing you sat in traffic for no reason while we continue on our merry way 🤣

The highway states that you should use both lanes so they are not in the wrong...but....some of these people won't doing fir this reason but because they are indeed entitled as exhibited in other places where that rule doesn't apply, ie. round abouts. We have one where traffic builds up as the main traffic then turns to the left but is then often stopped due to a railway crossing. At peak hours,the queue can really stack up. Yet every single time, you have the entitled lot that speed up on the right hand lane and then go around the roundabout and then block those who are queuing. It is so disrespectful but they don't care at all.

I think there are many of these on the lanes too seeing how quick they speed up the lane pass and demand to be let in.

Well you definitely are in the wrong according to the Highway Code

Oh well, you carry on breaking the rules of the road then.

That’s okay, you can write off your car and have a claim against your for dangerous driving when the inevitable happens and it’s captured in full HD glory on a dash cam!

Haha as if someone forcing their way into me would stand against me in any way whatsoever.

Do you mean that the right hand lane closes due to roadworks, or that the junction is T junction so only a left or right turn? If the latter than YANBU but if the former you are a) wrong and b) an arsehole and if you didn't let me in to the open lane in that scenario you would receive a string of my finest invective at high volume through my open window.

I hear you : and I think highways could
do us all a favour by adding a “merge in turn here” sign then cars “pushing in” would do so at a point recommended by highways and those drivers needing to let in a car would do so thinking “humf ok they are doing what the sign says”

one sign people one more sign and this would all be ok .

The people in the right lane are using the lanes correctly. As you approach the back of the queue you take your place in either the left or right lane so they are queuing equally. No one jumps the queue and it minimises the length of the queue. The people queuing in the left whilst the rights empty are the problem.

I’d take the right and merge in, recently passed as a late learner and that’s the way I was taught and that it helps the flow of traffic

You have to ask yourself the question of why do you let something that people are literally meant to do and is a rule of the Highway Code bother you so much?

It’s not healthy for something so small and insignificant to have such a negative hold over you.

In these situations you merge in turn. The reason people don’t is because strangely people don’t know this and have the same judgement as OP on the ones that do, therefore creating more traffic.

It depends if there's a sign saying to zip merge....

That’s fine. A van driver will let me in and I’ll get to my destination quicker and less vexed than you 😂

I read this wrong. I was thinking of my own town where people deliberately get into the wrong lane at the very busy roundabout and then just cut someone up. There are endless accidents and it is usually due to entitled idiots who feel they are far too important to get into the correct lane and queue.
You see it constantly. I only let someone infront of me if they genuinely appear lost. Otherwise I make them wait. Strangely I can always predict beforehand when someone is going to try and cut someone up.

This is totally different to signs telling drivers to merge.

The reason people can "fly up" the right hand lane is because the majority of drivers have your mentality and queue like sheep in the left hand lane. The correct way is for both lanes to fill up and then you merge in turn at the end. I once had someone scream at me "you're in my lane" in this situation. They were wrong. You are wrong. Read the highway code or take some further driving lessons.

Merge in zipper fashion.

Now you're in the wrong and doubling down.
Have you even read the replies? Or the highway code?
Or did you just come on here hoping for validation?

I'm the one who stays in the lane up to it closing, so the one driving correctly.
People moving over as soon as they see the signs telling them the lane is closing are the ones that cause traffic to back up.
Merge in turn, it's really not difficult.

As people who can drive properly have said, you use both lanes and zipper merge at the end where the lanes converge into a single carriageway. So many people don’t seem to understand this basic rule and they’re the ones causing problems.

You’re wrong.

Both lanes are used until the merge. Use the corkscrew method of every one car lets one in and everyone gets there quicker.

You’re the problem and you cause issues.