Smitty
“Warning those who think it’s really cool to drive the open lane eastbound on wsb and then hop over to the left just before the solid white line: An suv almost got smeared doing that today because the semitruck going 50 behind it was not expecting the SUV to come to a full and complete stop in the middle of the road.”
You must be talking about the Spokane street viaduct portion and people cutting into the NB I-5 line? Because if you are talking about the WSB then the truck should have been slowing down to move over as well, right? I may be reading this wrong.
As far as using the lane up until the top of the bridge goes, I say go for it. I use to be one of those guys who got angry at people who didn’t jump into line right away, but I think it actually alleviates congestion to spread out the merging a bit.