Letter to the Editor

Learn how to use highway on-ramps

Editor, the Record:

It's obvious to me and others I know that a whole lot of people driving these days don't know how to read, or they have become ignorant of those yield signs at the end of highway on-ramps.

Almost everyone uses our country's highways at one time or another, but almost everyone is using the on-ramps wrong. Look at it this way: If you have two water pipes that are joined to each other and the main pipe is flowing at a steady rate, with the joining pipe empty, there is no interruption of the flow. The water travels on at a steady speed. Now pour water into the joining pipe. What happens? The flow at the merging point slows down and backs up. Now trickle the water into the joining pipe. Notice how the water keeps flowing without backing up.

Get it? No? Then look at it this way: At the end of on ramps is a stop sign or a yield. To yield means to give highway traffic the right of way. Wait for an empty slot big enough to allow you time to increase your speed so you can blend in with the traffic. Maybe all yield signs should be replaced with stop signs.

Problem solved? I wonder. Can you imagine our highways with a steady flow of traffic, no backups and no being late for work? Still don't get it? Here's yet another way of saying it: Wait your turn, boneheads. Message delivered.



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