5:40 am and here I am watching a video about red lights. What a time to be alive.
@clayc9221
3 жыл бұрын
5:08 AM here 😳
@almostanengineer
3 жыл бұрын
seems we all like to watch this in the morning, 05h58 here and I'm now late for work 🤣
@Simon-xi7lb
3 жыл бұрын
5:23 AM and I have classes at 9. wish me luck folks
@watchableraven3517
3 жыл бұрын
Don't drop your papers
@AjSmit1
3 жыл бұрын
Squeeze those papers.
@soap1056593
3 жыл бұрын
This guy will literally trick you into LEARNING traffic history and rules while being entertaining as hell. Great job man!
@fitnesswithsteve
3 жыл бұрын
I call my platoon _“Leeroy Jenkins”_ when we are merging on the highway.
@ShrekSwag
3 жыл бұрын
It’s not my fault!!!
@lithostheory
3 жыл бұрын
@@ShrekSwag At least I have chicken :D
@TheOpinionatedYouTuber
3 жыл бұрын
I call mine James Van Der Beek.
@gregorysampson8759
3 жыл бұрын
The good old reverend himself
@jdcunnington
3 жыл бұрын
Didn't Leeroy get them all killed?
@Stratelier
3 жыл бұрын
5:50 - a "simple" lane change _highlights a car changing two lanes at once to reach the off-ramp_
@alexl8647
3 жыл бұрын
I love the b-roll footage of San Bernardino and Riverside County.
@averagehummer1213
3 жыл бұрын
I always love it when I can recognize the places in the videos, especially when it's around Loma Linda
@charkswitlazers
3 жыл бұрын
san bernarghanistan
@AlexisFlores-hp2gs
3 жыл бұрын
Same! Recognizing every entrance and exit
@jonathankleinow2073
3 жыл бұрын
Me: I wonder if he's going to mention how ramp meters were first used in Minneapolis Rob: Nah, I'm gonna do a whole VIDEO on Minneapolis ramp meters!
@zachhalverson69
3 жыл бұрын
Dude I was wondering the same thing lol.
@petemartin6270
3 жыл бұрын
growing up in the twin cities, i remember family members coming in from out of town thinking stop lights on the freeway ramps was the craziest thing they'd ever seen.
@_kiwi_8037
3 жыл бұрын
As someone from Germany, I ask myself how I got here, watching traffic about us roads n stuff.... dude great video, had to subscribe :D
@2Fast4Mellow
3 жыл бұрын
Ramp meters also exists in many European cities..
@vnixned2
3 жыл бұрын
@@2Fast4Mellow never seen them, not in Germany nor in the Netherlands, Belgium or northern France
@vnixned2
3 жыл бұрын
Though some quick research shows they do indeed exist in Europe, in Germany and NL at least. Though they don't seem to be as common as in the US
@Lucas-zg1vz
3 жыл бұрын
@@vnixned2 just looked it up myself. There was even an EU funded research project called EURAMP
@2Fast4Mellow
3 жыл бұрын
@@vnixned2 In The Netherlands they are called '(toerit) doseer installaties' and you often find them on onramp of highways that have a high frequency of traffic jams. They usully have a sub sign that reads 'bij groen 1 auto'. I had to do some searching on Google Maps, but I found one of the A28 onramp of 'De uithof': www.google.com/maps/@52.0922308,5.1945102,3a,75y,92.68h,85.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTzWm8EiDNFtcWkdrgv54AA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 In Germany they are called zuflussregelungsanlage and can be found near Duisburg, Dordmund and Oberhaussen. At least that is where I spotted them before I migrated to the US in 2009.
@beamerbread
3 жыл бұрын
Love ramp meters. Learning to drive in LA, they were like little legal drag strips 😂😂😂
@TigerWon
3 жыл бұрын
Except 99 percent of the time you are stuck behind grandma's buick so you can't.
@brandonb6384
3 жыл бұрын
@@TigerWon 💯
@graciescottsdale
3 жыл бұрын
Especially if you drive a Tesla! :-)
@ronal8824
2 ай бұрын
lol thats great thinking
@Crooked60
3 жыл бұрын
I can tell alot of effort goes into these videos and the end result is amazing, keep up the good work.
@clayton_games
11 ай бұрын
This channel feels like a bunch of news/educational videos I'd watch in middle school.
@wwvelyoutubification
3 жыл бұрын
This guy deserves a lot more followers! The production quality and content is just top notch!
@Flyerman777
3 жыл бұрын
You literally have such a passion for this, you can see it, and this is why I love watching these
@Ebolaface
3 жыл бұрын
When I visited LA I did not understand these lights, thank you for illuminating the purpose. I will now advocate for metering the on ramps of GSP in NJ
@AsAngelsFall221
3 жыл бұрын
Never even knew these existed until I moved to the west coast in 2017. I've still yet to see one of these on the east coast!
@beni2cc
3 жыл бұрын
Florida has them
@Trainfan1055Janathan
3 жыл бұрын
As a truck driver (18-wheeler) I hate these things! People keep cutting you off and stealing your green. I make it a special rule just to ignore them.
@specialopsdave
3 жыл бұрын
I think commercial vehicles should be exempt from the metering lights honestly
@Doggydoglol
3 жыл бұрын
As demonstrated at 08:57 - gotta love it when cars have no respect for trucks
@johnmcleodvii
3 жыл бұрын
Georgia chose the control option for their ramp meyers guaranteed to not work. In Atlanta, the ramp meyers are on a fixed schedule. Trey start metering at a fixed time on weekdays mornings (yes, even memorial day and other vacation days). They run for a fixed period if time metering glow, then turn off for a few minutes that clears the ramp in one massive platoon that (you guessed it, slows the interstate to a crawl). Then it meters for a few minutes. Repeat this for a few hours till rush hour is over. Repeat in the evening. Don't do anything at all when events end and dump a bunch of traffic onto the interstate. All in all a half baked job that isn't much if any better than going nothing at all.
@cm3904
3 жыл бұрын
Most underrated channel on youtube.
@hugoknight1
3 жыл бұрын
I live in Minneapolis and remember when MDOT shut the meters off for 2 months. It actually DECREASED commute times, based on reports at the time. This caused some legistlators to suggest keeping them off. Of course, government can't let perfectly good meters go to waste, so they were eventually turned back on, albeit with shorter wait times. It seems that the original wait times were not well thought out. I still find some of them functioning at certain times of the day when traffic is virtually nonexistant. Go figure!
@buoyant69
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! Having dealt with these d-- ramp meters in Minneapolis-St. Paul for as long as I’ve been driving (almost 30 years now), this was the first convincing argument I’ve seen. That said, on the periphery of rush hours (when the meters are in operation but they’re cycling quickly and there’s no line already formed on the ramp), very few people obey them.
@crowmigration8245
3 жыл бұрын
This is a nice way to help with the problem of people not knowing how to drive. If everyone allowed space between the car ahead, the person coming in the ramp could match speed and shift lanes into the gap. Then gradually widen the gaps again.
@TJarrait1
3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Would love to see an explanation as to why Michigan rarely experiences the type of highway congestion that is documented in this video. Everything I know about highway congestion (admittedly not much) should mean Michigan's highways are gridlock most of the time, but anecdotally that really isn't the case. Southeast Michigan is highly populated (4.25 million + living in just 4 adjacent counties), highly suburban with many subdivision developments, experienced high growth in an era where everyone had cars (1940s/1950s), frontage roads on many highways, short distances between exits/onramps, no car pool lanes, no toll roads, no metered ramps, a lot of cloverleaf interchanges, lots of long-distance commuters, most highways are 3 lanes (with the occasional 4-lane and 2-lane thrown in), I can't think of a single highway in Michigan that is 5-lanes for more than a few miles if that.
@lz5517
Жыл бұрын
I found in Michigan that people didn't understand urban merging. So you'd be in a city like Flint with short Moses-style on ramps and they'd come flying on and just move over and expect you to jump out of their way, even on 475 at rush hour. It was as if they thought they were out in the country on a half-mile-long ramp with maybe one car already on the road. It was my biggest driving peeve there. Cars entering need to yield.
@FordCrownVic1995
2 жыл бұрын
13:35 I feel honored for Rob to visit my local freeway interchange.
@jeee1074
3 жыл бұрын
I-45 North in Houston has the meter lights. They are rarely on. People don't bother paying attention and drive right through most of the time. The feeder roads are also way too small, so backups are already an issue without the lights. The best solution is for a major freeway expansion, but that is years away.
@davidmoran4471
3 жыл бұрын
I used to travel to The Netherlands several times a year, between the ramp metering and the variable speed limit, their highways work very smoothly. We in the US could take some lessons.
@kavalerdivacom
3 жыл бұрын
The variable speed limit is a softer form of ramp metering.
@Puddin
3 жыл бұрын
I am glad I watched this video. I do a decent amount of driving around the country and have never seen a light at the end of a highway entry. Now I know this is a thing I may come across.
@vwnut13
3 жыл бұрын
I've seen entrance ramps with stop signs (Boston area), but never these
@Liebe-Futurel
3 жыл бұрын
I’m from a small city in Iowa and was in Minneapolis for the weekend and was thinking about those lights on the ramp. Lo and behold this video is recommended to me haha
@Chris_at_Home
3 жыл бұрын
I drove across the country round trip 7 years ago and I made sure my tank was full when approaching a city and never left the freeway until out in rural areas. Many hotel chains actually build in rural areas when I drove east bound. I pulled a camp trailer the other direction. If people showed more common curtesy on the roads traffic would be better.
@walterbrown8694
3 жыл бұрын
These are not new - If memory serves me correctly, I first saw these in Fort Worth, Texas in 1976 when I was working on the FB-111 program at General Dynamics. They were quite effective in dealing with heavy "freeway" "mixmaster" rush hour traffic in those days.
@TruckerAvocado
3 жыл бұрын
As a truck driver I approve this method because people don’t know how to merge
@hxhdfjifzirstc894
3 жыл бұрын
It's a lot harder to merge while trying to do 0-60.
@blanco7726
3 жыл бұрын
Oh my the stress from worrying about every single time a car merges while you drive past an on ramp...
@ReaganVFilms
3 жыл бұрын
Haha! You forgot to check the COSTCO OF CORONA 91 WEST On Ramp, IT’s MASSIVE and rarely used! Only uses 3x per year, but I was excited that you showed Riverside & San Bernardino Freeways since we rarely get any traffic here in riverside, except for the junction to Moreno Valley!
@ahotdj07
8 ай бұрын
@0:25 - the purpose of the ramp lights is to control the flow of traffic getting onto the freeway. Allows the cars in the right lane to allow the cars entering able to merge without a long stream of traffic trying to merge at once.
@i95Florida
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome- Great Content. Thanks Rob!
@AlexandarHullRichter
3 жыл бұрын
It's weird, but I do enjoy seeing you filming videos on the same freeways I use. 😁
@jkennedy299
3 жыл бұрын
In Australia, we get around this by having longer on ramps, so you speed up to the highway speed before you reach the highway, and theoretically, your platoon will seperate this way
@jkennedy299
3 жыл бұрын
We still have these lights there, but im not even sure if they’re turned on because I’ve never seen them operational
@axelfoley5265
3 жыл бұрын
I think, instead of the on-ramp being 2-lane you could make it a 1-lane at half the speed limit, until just before merging, where the ramp meter stands now, and have the cars never stop. This saves some enviromental influence, too.
@SRQmoviemaker
3 жыл бұрын
Those onramp stoplights tripped me out first time I went to California.
@lz5517
Жыл бұрын
I feel like part of the issue is what people do AFTER the ramp meter. We have a spot here in Metro ATL (285 eastbound at Paces Ferry Rd) that is metered but creates a huge jam every day. The people entering push all the way forward and push their way in ahead of a) cars that were on 285 that already let cars off the ramp in and b) cars that came off the same ramp ahead of them and already merged. So they prevent the lane from actually flowing. The two right lanes pretty much stop at this entrance and really only move at all because of some people moving to the left lanes as soon as they merge. If you want to get off at the next exit (which is US 41 and has major shopping areas and, oh yeah, Truist Park), you need to be in the right lane either before or just after Paces Ferry. I don't really think there's any way to fix it, though.
@mathewveljkovic6861
3 жыл бұрын
Watching this video should be mandatory for all new drivers!! Great video!!
@SilverBullet93GT
3 жыл бұрын
I just found this channel, and i gotta say, i never thought Macaulay Culkin would know so much about traffic.
@Wiimeiser
3 жыл бұрын
These kinds of meters are all over the Monash Freeway here in Melbourne. There's even one on the ramp coming off Eastlink.
@RobTheTrucker
3 жыл бұрын
First time I saw these was in Canada about 10 years ago joining the Tran-Canada Highway in BC and it did appear to work well.
@timex513
3 жыл бұрын
In my city they put these in . they slow down everyone. Since the cars stack up. Then don't get up to speed. Which then slows down traffic till we get stopped traffic.
@ChadAmI80
2 жыл бұрын
This is the first time I have seen the freeway ramp lights. I wish we had them in Pittsburgh. There are several on ramps which would benefit from this, but I have to guess that the reason we don't have them is because of the space needed for the cars to queue on the ramp. Most ramps aren't that long.
@MrPuddinJones
Жыл бұрын
In theory, it's a good system. But I practice it's awful because you'll get those people who refuse to accelerate to meet freeway speeds. The freeway will be moving 70mph, and someone will only get up to 45mph before merging in, causing backups behind them, and dangerous driving results as people try to get around them. If I was a cop, I would target the slow mergers
@b15cowboy75
8 ай бұрын
The more videos I see on your channel the more I'm glad I live in tx. Here in tx the rules is to floor it or slow down Merging on the highway is 100 on the one who's merging. meaning the ones on the highway already do have to let you in
@mog7501
3 жыл бұрын
I love your vids Rob. Ever since I discovered your vids a few months ago I became hooked. I noticed you say your "L"s interestingly. They sound like an "ng" sound. Nothing wrong with it, I just found it interesting haha
@richardherndon451
3 жыл бұрын
I also noticed that the side that was moving more cars didn't have any semi trucks. Anyone else notice that? Also I noticed in the traffic model that all lanes of traffic stop for the car getting on.
@kridreklaw
8 ай бұрын
These meters are ridiculous. We had these in Dallas in the 80s. Drivers need to merge at freeway speeds, not 35 miles per hour. Drivers, press down the pedal on the far right until you get to a bare minimum of 55 miles per hour prior to merging into main freeway traffic. Not a bad idea to flip the blinker thingy too. This is a good way of informing those on the freeway of your intention to enter the flow of traffic. Be assertive and safe not indecisive and unpredictable!!!
@floycewhite6991
8 ай бұрын
North Central Expressway. Yeah. And how about that rotten I-45 endless right-lane-ends and new lanes merge in from the left? It was hell.
@mattwolf7698
8 ай бұрын
Looks like there's enough space to decently speed up here. Cars in the 80's were genrrally slower
@Dylanl92
3 жыл бұрын
Problem is it never works like that in a simulation because the light is so close to the merge point that most cars only speed up to 35mph then try to merge in causing all the cars to back up anyway. I've never once driven on a real life freeway where there wasn't a massive backup with cars all slowing down before a metered on ramp. The "platoon" and the freeway cars should be coordinating their lane change in a matter that results in a smooth transition without slowing down. It's rare but I've seen it happen so to me it shows there's no substitute for a competent driver.
@ejjanczy8
3 жыл бұрын
Along with ramp meters, you should do a segment on variable speed limits for congestion or weather conditions like you see on the NJTP and throughout the UK and Europe? Do they work as well or are ignorant on I-285 by Atlanta?
@5blocksmc979
2 жыл бұрын
Washington State sometimes adds an HOV lane without a meter for cars with 2+ people on ramp meters
@JDMatthias
3 жыл бұрын
Rob, skipping stones is easy. First you need the right stone. River rock is typically your best recruits, they usually have a nice saucer shape, rounded on all corners and thin but flat and broad. The best stones fit between your forefinger and thumb, now, when you throw the stone, toss the stone sidearm, parallel to the water surface and release the stone, rolling the stone on your release off your forefinger, like you would a baseball ⚾️ A few practices you should be able to get it. Remember, the stone matters most when you're beginning to learn, but with practice, you may be able to skip even a partially curved stone. Good luck!
@JogBird
3 жыл бұрын
this must be an american thing, ive never seen this irl
@aidenwhitaker8792
3 жыл бұрын
Visit a large city.
@Ultr4lit3
3 жыл бұрын
we've got a few of them here in Melbourne, Australia. Especially on the Monash freeway which is NEVER empty.
@motioncompensation1544
3 жыл бұрын
The Netherlands has had them for 30 years or so.
@mentalchild360
3 жыл бұрын
Its an American thing for BIG cities like Los Angeles and New York
@drivers99
3 жыл бұрын
@@mentalchild360 Denver has them. I’m sure there are a lot more. Edit: there’s a map of them at 13:19
@thorbjrnhellehaven5766
2 жыл бұрын
I have experienced similar approach for a roundabout. During morning rush hour traffic on main road was primarily one direction through a roundabout. Driving at maybe 10 km/h. Traffic from the side road entering roundabout before the main road morning direction, had no problem cutting the line. Problem increased when drivers om main road decided to take a detour through a residential area, bypassing the a chunk of the slow que, then go back on the main road at this roundabout. This caused even more build-up and slower traffic onmain road, and even build-up to enter from the side road, making a constant flow, causing even more build-upand stopping entry from main road roush. Solution was: Put a traffic metera red light on the side 100m before the side road entry. Make regular decent gaps in the flow from the side road to allow more flow from the main road. Result was: Drivers on main road didn't gain time driving through residential area, but kept following main road. No continous build-up to enter form side road, not waiting minutes anymore, just 5-10 seconds at the red light. Better over all flow from all directions. Better over all flow
@thorbjrnhellehaven5766
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know/remember if this actually was by traffic meter, or just timer by experience. But the results was very good for all parties.
@thorbjrnhellehaven5766
2 жыл бұрын
This was just a temporary solution, the main road are now going straight through, with a larger roundabout above, and ramps to enter/exit the main road.
@SantaFe19484
3 жыл бұрын
I have have seen a ramp meter on a highway before, but it was taken away, located in Allentown, PA.
@SebastianTheGreat
3 жыл бұрын
My dude literally just covered one unit of Transportation Engineering Class
@tollboothjason
3 жыл бұрын
"and Karen, who's actually really nice" 😄
@nathanielphillips5727
3 жыл бұрын
Two issues that I see: Energy wasted in braking and acceleration (esp for heavy trucks), and no mention of zipper merging. You could definitely reduce the need for these ramp lights if drivers know how to predictably merge into traffic. One goal of the on-ramp is to give the driver time to match the speed of traffic to more safely zipper merge. Stopping them midway disrupts this. I live in eastern US, but have heard that zipper merging is part of drivers ed in the EU. I can see how the lights minimize the "shock" as the video put it of drivers attempting to merge into a busy highway at 30-40mph (50-60kph), however frustrating it might be to the rest of us.
@thatcarguy1UZ
3 жыл бұрын
I see the ramp light as a “Christmas tree” and I try to react as quickly as possible to mat the accelerator pedal and drag race the freeway traffic. YEET!
@Code_blu215
3 жыл бұрын
Doesn't work well in Phoenix. Their setup is still congested because you deal with what I like to call "last minute goofballs" that will slow you down or not let you over if you need to get on the freeway.
@globalko
3 жыл бұрын
Self driving cars will be amazing at tailing on the highway since they most likely will be able to communicate with each other and react way faster.
@Kirisame312
3 жыл бұрын
Definitely see this every day at non-metered on-ramps.
@fletcherwhite9216
3 жыл бұрын
The most frustrating part about red lights on freeway ramps is that they're only cued to the traffic flow on the freeway, and not to cars waiting in the queue. If nobody's using the onramp, then the light should turn off until a platoon rolls through. This would require sensors farther up the ramp to detect a platoon, but it would certainly reduce unnecessary CO2 emissions.
@coolsparkz47
2 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't even know these existed until I visited California back in 2016 and saw how bad the traffic is
@lonesnark
3 жыл бұрын
If you meter up all your on-ramps, then technically you could keep the freeway from ever backing up, you'd just cause a backup onto the surface street. Less of a problem if only ramps were long enough and could hold enough cars, like the one in your simulation did.
@Sneekystick
2 жыл бұрын
Here is what I find quite ridiculous. The airport in my city refuses to add a light to there on-ramps. This backs up traffic all the way to the next town causing millions of dollars a year in traffic delays and extra pollution.
@VioletLeader
3 жыл бұрын
From one roadgeek (and once-aspired CE-Transportation major) to another, a video request: The "I-40 Expansion to Bakersfield" Question. Keep up the great content!
@a4bcaboose
3 жыл бұрын
Seeing as how i drive the 91/60/215 exit every day and it is spotted at 5:56 there are many accidents at that interchange every single day. they are now putting in Red light meters on the 60's entrances now. i found it weird that this video was recommended to me and this video shows my area
@cameraredeye3115
3 жыл бұрын
I remember a few Houston freeways used to have working ramp meters (I-45 North and I-69/US 59 South in particular)... Guess what? Many of them are gone, and rightly so. Know why? Because they just DON'T WORK. They're much more of a hindrance than a help because it disrupts your timing in merging onto the interstate while you're on any major freeway inside Beltway 8.
@ShawnTempesta
3 жыл бұрын
Such a well produced and severely underrated channel. Great job!
@almostanengineer
3 жыл бұрын
We don't use those in the 🇬🇧, but then we also only have 3 lanes on most motorways, and only one is for driving in, the rest are solely for overtaking, so the middle lane is reasonably clear, so a vehicle speeds up the slip roads, the traffic in the lane next to it should change to the middle lane, and those on the middle lane should move the outer lane, and then every one moves back into the in inner lane, there are also laws about not using the right lane.
@michaeld2510
3 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video about Variable Speed Limits (VSL)? The only road I know of that uses it is I-285 in Atlanta. It's only used on the section above I-20.
@Roberto-gp3yx
3 жыл бұрын
People are simply stupid, no need to brake when people simply move over for mergin traffic Instead people want to race the person trying to merge
@pineapplepizza27
3 жыл бұрын
This just moves the problem one lane over when the traffic is too tightly packed to let people in without breaking...
@kjdude8765
3 жыл бұрын
With low traffic density, you're right. However near max density there is not room to switch lanes and not disrupt the adjacent lane.
@lztx
3 жыл бұрын
Haha I was driving along the motorway late last night, there was some roadworks just before an on-ramp. The stopped trucks must have tripped the slow sensors because the "restricted entry" traffic lights were operational even though there was only a handful of cars on the road. I had watched this video a few weeks ago and now it's come up in my feed again???
@dexterphilipcaseres
Жыл бұрын
"You and I and Hector and Phil and Karen (who is actually really nice)..." Hahaha.
@TenOfZero1
3 жыл бұрын
Nice, I've actually never seen one of these. I really wish Quebec would install some of these around Montreal, they would really help
@kyosukeplays
3 жыл бұрын
No wonder this all looks familiar. It's the flipping CA-91 and the CA-60 right around downtown Riverside.
@jameskishtok
2 жыл бұрын
They should bring these to Florida! I Just had a vacation (and visiting a doctor with my dad) to California, and they work well.
@johnlundkeller
3 жыл бұрын
I've never seen these and I live near D.C., in an area with the most congested traffic in the U.S. (or maybe just behind that of L.A.). These would throw me off, because I'm used to speeding up to get on the roads, not slowing down.
@davidgutierrez-aguirre4807
3 жыл бұрын
Such a great video! That shortening of overflow/efficiency loss period can also be seen at energy/fuel savings; a lower carbon footprint.
@mhous7
8 ай бұрын
They built a bunch here in UT as well and they’re on most entrances
@michdem100
3 жыл бұрын
This is quite interesting. I've never seen such a thing as they are not really popular in Europe, and at first I though it was to force usage of both lanes by preventing merging too soon And I think there are multiple reasons for the lack of them here. One is that here is often not enough space to put them. I can think of quite a few ramps in my area that suffer from that problem and that is despite living in a quite modern city in which all buildings are 150 years old and younger. Another thing is that cities in EU often prefer to clog their streets to discourage driving by car, only prioritizing buses running late and emergency vehicles. Both things done quite easily - a green wave for the bus, and intersection blocking (red lights for all traffic) for the ambulances.
@MichaelRabbitBass3
3 жыл бұрын
I wonder when we're ever going to get to a point to where we shut ramps off to help with traffic.
@wrightmf
10 ай бұрын
What about ants? They flow in single lanes and never have traffic jams. There is an article about that (too lazy to find it now), I believe it mentions they all travel the same speed unlike humans drive at different speeds and most trying to speed up only to slow everything down. Then there are some ants carrying heavy loads (like a leaf that is 20 times bigger than the ant carrying it) so the other ants moving in opposite direction move to the shoulder so the leaf carrier has a free path. Of course if there are slower ants, the faster ones can simply walk over it. Maybe that's what we need, cars that can drive over slower cars.
@fromisheon4867
3 жыл бұрын
I think it is really worth it especially makes me easier to merge into a main lane rather than multiple cars mere into the main lane. But some meters have carpool lanes and they are many single driver violators use the car pool lanes that causes unwanted traffics. I think number one reason why we have traffics today other than huge populations is many impatient drivers break traffic laws and bad road manners/ etiquette s. They don't think that they cause more traffic and make traffic worse.
@tgkspike
3 жыл бұрын
Check out Denver where the green / red don't alternate and you seriously end up drag racing the car next to you.
@mungox1
3 жыл бұрын
when the light stays green is bad too. People slow expecting it to turn red, other drivers know metering is off & don't slow down .
@bikeny
3 жыл бұрын
I was concerned about the merge based on the initial overheads, but then you showed the signal being on both sides so that each lane gets a light.
@umpire8025
2 жыл бұрын
the ramp meters in MN will flash yellow instead of switching off.
@alankvasnik1798
Жыл бұрын
What I don't see mentioned is the driver effect, the people who are made to stop before getting on the freeway often don't accelerate to freeway speeds, when they don't it causes more clogging, half a mile onto the freeway they are then going 60 miles an hour but everybody else had to slow down, would love to see cops begin to enforce the law that says lingering in the left lane is a ticketable offense, also not speeding up to freeway speeds should also be a ticketable offense, here in the Twin Cities we have probably 100,000 or more recent immigrants who have not experienced snow, nor modern traffic conditions, that adds to the complications
@sciontcfanclub
3 жыл бұрын
I live in Southern California I pray I see road guy Rob irl one day lol
@crashoverride576
Жыл бұрын
Let's be honest red light on ramps is the stupidest thing they could have ever done. Driving a fully loaded tractor trailer having to stop right before having to merge with an at speed highway is so stupid and unsafe. I don't know how many times I've almost caused an accident by merging on to the highway. Just stupid!
@dirtfpv
2 жыл бұрын
Another great video! Where's the follow up video related to MN? I don't see it in your videos list.
@jibril2473
3 жыл бұрын
I feel like people don’t know what the “yield” sign means so they just start installing stop lights on ramps, and they should do in every ramp in the US.
@eduardolozano1821
3 жыл бұрын
It's cool seeing your small city on a popular yt vid
@laneh7442
3 жыл бұрын
Rob I don’t believe you’ve done a video on these but I’m southern Utah I know of at least two places where they have intersections/exits on ramps where you going on the other side of the road.
@Mr.Thermistor7228
3 жыл бұрын
lmaoooo i love john and ken, telling it like it is!!
@kevtech733
3 жыл бұрын
We don't have those in Alberta. Traffic flows great.
@northamericanpichu
3 жыл бұрын
I always wondered why those loghts were for on the freeways in Chicago
@danielxsure
3 жыл бұрын
First time I encountered this was at Atlanta trying to get on i85
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