"Earl Purple" wrote in message
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d wrote:
If one's exit is not clear (as in the example above), one is at fault for
entering the box junction. That's the whole idea of them. When there is
obviously stopped traffic ahead, drivers *should* drive over one car at a
time. Drivers should only enter when they can see enough space past the
junction for them to fit in to. Anything else should result in a ticket


Assuming that the box like most is at a set of traffic lights, if
traffic only crossed one at a time, i.e. one in the box at the time,
you would not get the correct flow through the traffic light.

That there is space ahead for both the driver in front and yourself
should be enough reason to allow you to progress across behind them.
Now if they decide to stop just in front of the box instead of moving
ahead into the space available to them, they have caused you to block
needlessly.

No, going when you can't see space for you on the other side is needlessly
blocking the junction. If traffic is stop-start, as it would be in such a
situation, sending one car over the junction at a time is the only way to
ensure the junction is not blocked, as blocking the junction screws up
everyone else. When driving you can't assume anything.

In traffic queueing situations it is totally wrong to leave an
excessive gap between you and the vehicle in front. The highway code
tells you not to. But so many do and it really really annoys me when
the person in front of me is doing that.

The highway code also tells you to not block box junctions... Two wrongs
don't make a right.