Originally Posted by NCCBMWCCA Member

Slightly off-topic, but another rant of mine:

A highway administration official in Minnesota once commented on the huge line caused by a particular construction zone. The line was 7 miles long at times with the an entire lane open almost the entire way.

He said that there is no reason for people to get into the through-lane before the cones. "If we wanted people to merge 7 miles back, we'd start the cones 7 miles back."

People need to learn how to merge and "let merge". It's childish to think that someone using the entire available open lane is "cutting in line". The newspaper guy is way off base on this one - BMW or not!