T.C. - What do you make of this?

[fatboy]

fair enough, think we just have to put up with twats than cannot excersise common sense when driving

[lazarus]

So I disagree with pretty much everyone on this point, sorry!
Driving a lot on motorways and dual carriageways, the amount of 'joke' matrix signs I see is unbelieveable: they say lane closed when it isn't, they say incident when there isn't etc etc.
Most drivers see a lane closed sign so dive straight into the other lane when the obstruction, if there is one, may not be for another mile.
All this does is back up the traffic further and for longer, maybe obstructing other junctions further back.
the sensible approach is to not move from the closed lane until you can see the cones blocking it off, then filter into the other lanes on an 'in turns' basis.
If you're going to move out of a lane so early on, and the lane is clear, then don't be upset if someone uses the clear lane to drive down. And undertaking in slow moving traffic isn't illegal.
Common sense really.
But anyhow, both drivers in the vid are cocks

I'd go with that. I did a fair bit of driving in Germany, and where we hit roadworks, you would have queues of stationary traffic right up to the obstruction, at which point everyone would merge in turn, no arguing or bitching. Why choose randomly a mile earlier to move over, why not 1/2 mile, 200 yards? If the traffic is moving fast, I agree move over sooner, but when it's stationary why aren't we using all of the available road to reduce the length of the queue?

might reduce the length of the individual queues but it wont affect travel time through the choke point nor the number of vehicles queueing