Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road

[jeffster]

Speaking from experience, this configuration is atypical, when I merge onto the highway, I generally need to merge left out of the merge lane, I use the King St. and Sportsworld onramps once in a while, and rarely remember that it continues as a lane.

Anecdotally, this seems to be most people, and generally people merge left at a slower speed than the flow of traffic causing a minor annoyance to extreme safety hazard.

I guess is sometimes depends on the merge lane; a shorter lane makes it more difficult to get to 100 km/h, and this is especially true if you have an insurance app or OBD 2 attachment and you get dinged for any 'heavy' acceleration even if it's meant to merge onto fast moving traffic.

That said, personally, I try to get up to speed before pulling into the merge; what pisses me off are these clowns driving at 125 using the far right lane to scoot around traffic in the left hand lane, making it impossible to merge safely.