Editor: What is the real difference between “yielding” and “merging” in legal terms? Presumably a yielding motorist must at least slow down, but to what degree?
The reason that I am asking is that we live close to the eastbound freeway offramp on to 232 Street, which intersects with 232 Street just 35 or so metres from the 72 Avenue west intersection. I have witnessed some very close encounters, when a car exiting the freeway tries to sneak between oncoming traffic instead of yielding.
Although there is a yield sign, numerous motorists will “squeeze in” between oncoming traffic on 232 Street without slowing down, and if they misjudge the gap, they endanger not only the oncoming motorist but also pedestrians walking up toward the bridge. There are numerous pedestrians like ourselves who find themselves at risk there.
Brian King,
Langley
