For a few years now, I’ve been hearing some people trying to “admonish” others and “teach” us about so-called zipper merging. I have thought about this (whenever I see it being brought up) and I have ...

A recent column by Steve Sebelius, along with recent letters to the editor, have argued that using a zipper pattern to merge two lanes isn’t the proper way to merge. This belief appears unique to this ...

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 ...