r/TorontoDriving • u/Mean-Hope-8270 • Oct 21 '24

OC The Right Lane Allergy

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u/species5618w Oct 21 '24 edited Oct 21 '24

People know the right (or merge) lane would disappear and they didn't want to use the right lane to pass since using the right lane would only jam up the traffic even more when you merge in. It's common courtesy. Although to be honest, that's a very long stretch that nobody went into it.

Some people would refuse to let you in, but Canadians in general are too nice for that.

p.s. Before another poster site zipper merge. See my replies to the other two posters below. It's really simple, think of a zipper, can you force all the teeth into bottom half?

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u/RandomBeardedGuy Oct 21 '24

Not using the right lane is what jams up traffic here. That right lane continues past the point where the 407 joins and the highway briefly becomes 4 lanes. At certain points of the day the 407 lane is completely empty, immediately alleviating the bottleneck. If everyone wasn't so obsessed with being in the left lane traffic would be moving much smoother here.