Minnesotans are notoriously bad practitioners of the zipper merge. Rather than using two full lanes until it is finally time to merge, something about the collective Minnesota mindset resents the ...

A recent column by Steve Sebelius, along with recent letters to the editor, have argued that using a zipper pattern to merge two lanes isn’t the proper way to merge. This belief appears unique to this ...

For a few years now, I’ve been hearing some people trying to “admonish” others and “teach” us about so-called zipper merging. I have thought about this (whenever I see it being brought up) and I have ...

I read with great interest your Thursdaay story about the coming of the “Big Squeeze” on U.S. Highway 95 (“‘The Big Squeeze’ a big hurt”). What an opportunity to teach and encourage the use of the ...

Traffic is brutal in our much-loved, Helene-ravaged mountains. We have a lot of roadwork happening, thankfully. Along with the repairs come road blockages. So here is a much-needed reminder on merging ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. As with every summer, road construction season has commenced. Traffic on North 19th Avenue is ...

This is in rebuttal to an Aug. 30 letter, “Proper road rules for merging.’’ This gentleman has written a perfect script for a lane closure traffic tie-up. In Pennsylvania, it doesn’t matter if the ...