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Old 12-08-2022, 09:24 PM   #7
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Default Re: What's with the Traffic Lights on Freeway On-Ramps?

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Originally Posted by Mulva View Post
What is the deal with that? Is that to try to manage congestion? Is it to try to help people merge better - as in the bottle-neck is moved back from the actual merge point, so by the time cars that are let through get to the merge they are up to freeway speed (rather than have bottleneck of cars stopped on the ramp at the actual merge point, where they are trying to merge from a standstill with traffic that is doing highway speeds)?
I've found that the highlighted part is an SA only habit caused by cars on the freeeway speeding up with the other SA habit of "he's not getting in front of me".
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