Miscellanea

Why, when entering a limited access road, do people stop on the entrance ramp and, instead of using the acceleration/merge lane, wait for traffic to clear and then enter by immediately cutting across three lanes to start speeding up in the express lane? I have not seen this behavior anywhere else although it is being done here by drivers with a number of different out-of-state plates.

What I first took to be an obvious and badly placed speed trap turned out to be two city police cars, a city police pick-up truck and the city police dive squad panel truck all parked at the end of a canal. Not a good sign.