You could loose your License
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It’s more to do with tailgaters than people hogging the road, no? The perennial problem.
No, this is about people who pass the the long 2-lane queue of people (green arrows) waiting to go through the Gubrist, then stop dead in the left-lane to Zürich (red arrows) to push into the fixed traffic (where those who lined up patiently are reluctant to let them in). They also do it coming from the West Ring, but then it’s the right lane to Zürich.
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On your picture it is also very obvious that where they stop dead (red arrows) they are actually not even allowed to chenge into the right lane anymore even if everything were free; solid white line.
So double fine: Stopping on the highway and crossing solid line. Expensive.
Oh god yes. I hope these people burn in hell. Every time, skipping the queue and causing extra chaos to both the people waiting in line, and on the otherwise freely moving lane… They drive me up the wall
And also because they give a bad name to people zipper merging, which is actually correct and efficient and not to be confused with this.
Now I am confused. Zipper merge is when you try to merge just before the split, right? Isn’t that what these people re doing?
No, they need to do that in a lane designated with signage and road markings indicating that that is allowed.
Is this even a zipper?
I see three offramp/splitting lanes, the two greens being marked for the same direction.
Great!!! I passed by there earlier today. There’s people who drive on the extreme left lane that goes to Zurich city and then make a mess to change 4 lanes to go to the south (ZH lake).
In particularly congested mornings I end up driving 30-50 kmh in the extreme left lane because one idiot will stop and try to merge in the green lanes.
The intersection is actually 3-way: The right lane heads off to the West-Ring on it’s own. The two green lanes go into the Gubrist, but is slowed by out-of-picture merging with traffic coming from Zurich and the West Ring. The yellow goes into Zürich.
There is no signposted zippering at this point, just A-holes who think they can jump the queue
So do the ones from the right, purple lane also push their way into the yellow ones further up? I seem to see cars there on the triangle which was definitely not painted for picknickers.
Or did I just give them ideas now?
Is the excuse for not knowing how to drive “I have a self-driving car” yet??
In my experience, Swiss drivers are the worst at zipper merging. They either stop dead 20 cars back and try to merge, or they race up to the end and try to push in 2 cars at once.
In zippering it is important to use pretty much the whole ending lane. But if the ending lane is clear than the other, I find it best to slowly align with the speed of the continuing lane so I match up with my “zipper slot” by the time I reach the end of the ending lane.
Most of people goes in the direction of green (ZH airport, Winterthur, St. Gallen) and purple (ZH lake, Chur) lanes. A significantly smaller fraction of people uses the yellow lanes to go into ZH city.
Green lanes are congested because of the works at tunnel 1km from this intersection (Gubrist tunnel). Since green lanes are slow, people uses the free yellow lanes and tries to merge into the green ones in the triangle (not for picknick).
Issue here is that yellow lanes are 80 kmh. If someone suddenly stops trying to merge green lanes and the ones behind can’t stop on time…it won’t be nice. I drive once or twice a month here. I have already applied full braking because this. Nothing happened beyond enjoying the feeling of the car doing its job. But, if I have to do it again, I hope the people behind me are also putting attention ahead 
IMO believe that most drivers these days don’t pay attention to what is going on beyond their four wheels.
Why doesn’t the roads department create video on zippering … drivers that zipper too soon, and those that refuse to zipper are both the problem.
That would be the Swiss-est thing ever.
I think people know what to do. They just refuse to as they think rules don’t apply to them.
Here are a few (selected) comments from the 20mins article:
…but as a BMW driver I simply have to insist on my right to ALWAYS have right of way, sorry.
Well, I drive a BMW, so I automatically always have priority, just like the Mercedes drivers!
I’m sure those comments from “BMW drivers” are absolutely genuine and not there to take the piss. At all. Really.
I actually don’t know any BMW drivers. I drive a Škoda.
Me too. Love my '25 Kodiaq 7-seater