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ramp hopping

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  • 11-09-2008 2:43pm
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    spatchco
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭


    foregive my ignorance but just what is ramp hopping ? to do with driving on the m50 from listening its an annoyance not an offence ?


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    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,995 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    It's when traffic in the mainline is moving slowly and a person jumps ahead by taking an offramp at a junction and then rejoins the motorway at the same junction. It generally makes the mainline move even slower as having lots of people trying to merge slows things down.


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    BrianD3
    Registered Users Posts: 8,396 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Stark wrote: »
    It's when traffic in the mainline is moving slowly and a person jumps ahead by taking an offramp at a junction and then rejoins the motorway at the same junction. It generally makes the mainline move even slower as having lots of people trying to merge slows things down.
    It also usually involves the hopper driving up the hard shoulder/buslane for 5 miles before the start of the exit ramp. But they're allowed do this once they have their left indicator on all the time :rolleyes:


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    R.O.R
    Registered Users Posts: 12,685 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    It also usually involves the hopper driving up the hard shoulder/buslane for 5 miles before the start of the exit ramp. But they're allowed do this once they have their left indicator on all the time :rolleyes:

    But "Oh the joy" of the days when the Gardai hid just around the bend after the Firhouse Northbound off ramp, to catch the people who didn't make any effort to join the Motorway and just carried on the hard shoulder to the Ballymount junction.

    You could see the panic in their eyes as they tried to force a gap in traffic to get off the Hard Shoulder.


    .......The good ol' days I call 'em


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    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    I've heard it called 'slip road surfing'


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    spatchco
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭spatchco


    thanks for the info ,you learn something new every day


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    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,995 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    There's also 'roundabout hopping' - those that avoid the long queue in the left lane for the first exit and go up the empty right lane and then 360 degrees around the roundabout.


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    lafors
    Registered Users Posts: 4,316 ✭✭✭lafors


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    There's also 'roundabout hopping' - those that avoid the long queue in the left lane for the first exit and go up the empty right lane and then 360 degrees around the roundabout.

    Sshhhhhh! Don't be giving all the tricks away!
    That use to save me a good 20mins on the N4/M50 junction before they did it up, now its only useful at a couple of places.

    BTW the "ramp hopping" is rampant at the N3/M50 northbound, as is the more dangerous, go at 120km/h in the N3 off lane from the toll bridge (while the 2 main lanes aren't moving) then cut in on front of a slow mover in the main lanes, just at the last second, very safe :rolleyes:


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Something along the lines of those bendable bollards are needed in the middle of the wide hatchings on the on/off ramps. The amount of people cutting in and out across the hatchings is unreal.


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    Damien360
    Registered Users Posts: 6,495 ✭✭✭Damien360


    Stekelly wrote: »
    Something along the lines of those bendable bollards are needed in the middle of the wide hatchings on the on/off ramps. The amount of people cutting in and out across the hatchings is unreal.

    Completly agree with you. Coming down M1 today towards Dublin with the merge from the airport on my left. The amount of cars crossing the hatched white lines to get all the way across to the right hand lane of the M1 to keep going into Dublin was unbelievable. Also, many doing the exact opposite from the M1 to join the M50 lanes on the left.

    Bollards would solve this and make people use the correct joining areas (admittely, these areas to join are too small )


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    R.O.R wrote: »
    You could see the panic in their eyes as they tried to force a gap in traffic to get off the Hard Shoulder.
    What really annoys me is the feckin numpties that stop to let them in!
    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    There's also 'roundabout hopping' - those that avoid the long queue in the left lane for the first exit and go up the empty right lane and then 360 degrees around the roundabout.
    <pedant>450 degrees actually</pedant>


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    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    There's also 'roundabout hopping' - those that avoid the long queue in the left lane for the first exit and go up the empty right lane and then 360 degrees around the roundabout.

    ....ah, so that's what I was doing !! Never knew there was a name for it.........the trick, though, is to do it with panache........nice quick pace around all the way and staring into the whites' of the eye's of the punter who realises he's just been 'tango'd :D:D

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