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Originally Posted by svandamme
lol, I know some short onramps too, but you are typically not at 0 when you enter the on-ramp
You'de already be in 2nd gear and at least 20-30mph right?
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For most short on-ramps, you're right. But there's a stretch of the Pasadena Freeway that seems to have been engineered for a slower pace of life. It seems that a lot of the on-ramps are literally a stop sign, followed by a tight 90-degree turn (like you'd have at a ticket booth in a parking garage), and then about 15-20 yards before the on-ramp abruptly merges onto the freeway. (I tried to find a pic of that on the internet, but wasn't successful in my 30-second search.) Not an issue if it's rush hour traffic and nobody's moving anyway, but at other times when traffic in the slow lane is whistling along at 50-60 mph it's slightly ridiculous.