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 ...

There has been much written about the “proper” method to merge two traffic lanes. LNP printed letters Aug. 30 (“Proper road rules for merging”) and Sept. 3 (“ ‘Zipper’ merging in other states”).

Here’s the thing: It’s cute and all that you still like to merge five miles out from when a lane ends. But it’s time to grow out of that bad habit! Try out the zipper merge. Don’t know it? Go here to ...

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