Two into One won't go

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Wed 7 Oct 2009 01:51
Two into One won't go - julie page
So why do road planners try and do this

Around where I live there are a number of examples, where you can choose two lanes to go right for instance at traffic lights, but once you made your turn the road narrows down to one lane within a short distance

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Wed 7 Oct 2009 01:53
Two into One won't go - Rattle
The roads are all the same here, most common is a left and straight on lane, the middle one is straight on and the right one right turn only. After the junction it suddenly becomes one lane which means everybody has to merge. It requires a lot of mirror work.

It does seem to be a bad design.
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Wed 7 Oct 2009 10:16
Two into One won't go - Chicken Vindaloo
The road outside one of the hospitals here has just been modified in a similar way. Two lanes pull up to a set of lights. After the lights, the road narrows to one lane. My father questioned the Town Planning department on why they had done this, because as soon as it opened, the obvious problems with merging occurred. He was told that because a similar system worked in Cambridge, it would work here.
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Wed 7 Oct 2009 10:21
Two into One won't go - b308
Its a benefit for us motorists... if people merge correctly you will get more cars across on green with two lanes than with just the one... unless people behave like idiots and cause a blockage where the lanes merge and jam things up... personally I wouldn't complain.
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Wed 7 Oct 2009 10:27
Two into One won't go - Old Navy
I recon there is a policy to reduce the capacity of the roads in an attempt to make public transport a viable option. Many road lanes have been removed, (painted out), or actually blocked in my area.

Edited by Old Navy on 07/10/2009 at 10:29

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Wed 7 Oct 2009 10:41
Two into One won't go - Armstrong Sid
I recon there is a policy to reduce the capacity of the roads in an
attempt to make public transport a viable option. Many road lanes have been removed (painted
out) or actually blocked in my area.


It's the anti-car lobby maneouvring the facts to demonstrate they are right. They tell us that cars are clogging up the streets and there isn't enough space for them; so the roads are made smaller and narrower which causes congestion, which proves they were right.
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Wed 7 Oct 2009 10:42
Two into One won't go - BobbyG
In Glasgow we have the opposite problem due to the ongoing M74 extension works.
Aitkenhead road, T junction, 2 lanes, inside lane went left or right, right hand lane right only. This was because when you turned right the road was 2 lanes as well and that was the direction the majority of traffic goes.

Now when you turn right, it is down to one lane about 100 yards along due to the roadworks. So in all their wisdom, they have actually cut the approach road in Aitkenhead Road to one lane as well. Therefore all traffic, going left or right must share the one lane.
The easy solution would of course be to keep it two lanes, but left lane strictly left turn only.
But I suppose that makes too much sense.

I guess the planners would retort that drivers would not be trusted to not go down the left lane and then try and turn right against the cone layoput which has probably got an element of truth in it.
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