Ha ha! So true. I've learned to accept that I'll always pick the slowest lane so I may as well stay in the one I'm in. Although I usually find that lane one is the quickest because all the reps are in lane 3...unless, that is, I'm inadvertantly queueing for exit on the M60 that it turns out that I don't actually want. But now I've queued unnecessarily, the differential in traffic speed between the lane I'm in and the lane I want means I'm stuck. Doh!

I watched a television programme some time ago when they put three cars into busy traffic situations at various times of the day. Two of the cars stayed in their chosen respective lane and one car dodged about, lane hopping to try to get ahead. The results proved quite convincingly that staying put was nearly always the best option. That is in terms of advantage. There was little or sometimes no advantage for the lane hopper, but the drivers who stayed in lane were much less stressed by the situation and were therefore deemed to be better off physically and phsychologically, and in terms of yardage sometimes hardly worse off at all. Very interesting. It does reveal that the 'normal' motorists attitude is 'me first'. Cheers Concrete