[meddlepal]

Still very common elsewhere. As noted by the article this is a widespread phenomenon in the Northeast... I see it all the time in Boston and Worcester.

[haikuginger]

Huge in the Boston metro.

[tomschlick]

TIL, I haven't seen it outside of the greater PGH area.

[rrdharan]

People do it in Brooklyn all the time. Sometimes not even from the leftmost lane :).

[astura]

Extremely common all over New York. I didn't know it had a name though.