Michigan transportation officials and state police are urging drivers to embrace the zipper merge technique as summer construction season coincides with peak travel periods.

A zipper merge is when lanes ahead are closed. Drivers use both lanes of traffic until the merge point, where they would take turns merging into the open like, like a zipper.

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