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Georgia to Pass Awesome Slowpoke Bill
Last Resistance ^ | February 28, 2014 | Michael Minkoff

Posted on 02/28/2014 6:12:43 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Arlis

There are a number of highways where it is posted that the left lane is for passing only and it is strictly enforced in KY. It works. Everyone drives in the right lane only except to pass and traffic flows just fine.

On the highways where no such restrictions exist, traffic sucks.


21 posted on 02/28/2014 7:13:57 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: Democrat_media

It isn’t about the speed limit, it is about traffic flow, sometimes it is the 55 mph driver blocking the passing lane, sometimes 65, sometimes 75, all on the same stretch of freeway, it’s just that on different days, traffic flows at different rates.


22 posted on 02/28/2014 7:15:59 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: ansel12

If there’s a speed limit, the “slowpoke” will have an ironclad defense as long as he’s going the legal speed limit. You can’t make laws that contradict each other.


23 posted on 02/28/2014 7:18:17 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“… going 62 in a 65 …”

Understand: the normal cruising speed on a 65 stretch in GA is 80MPH.


24 posted on 02/28/2014 7:24:26 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

What, you expect sense?

Naw. We gotta make the guy who’s overcompensating the most for a small je ne sais quoi, the hall monitor now. If he wants to go 90, get out of his way. Bullies rule!


25 posted on 02/28/2014 7:24:53 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ansel12

I don’t get in the passing lane very often. I stay out of their way but I do get tired of seeing cars run up behind them like they’re going to smack their rear end flashing their lights because they’re impatienti. I call it pushing because it’s exactly what the’y’re doing. They get so close to their bumpers that if the driver ahead of them hit their brakes there would be a massive pile-up. It ‘s very revealing about their personalities.


26 posted on 02/28/2014 7:25:13 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Got it, your vote is that it is impossible to anything about it, is that your desired result?


27 posted on 02/28/2014 7:25:36 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: jsanders2001

I think it is revealing a weird personality to get into the passing lane, and not pay attention to cars coming up on you and moving at a faster rate.

Actually, that indicates someone who might need to be retested since they are losing track of conditions around them.


28 posted on 02/28/2014 7:31:57 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Around here, illegals are the slowest. Afraid of interaction with officials, so they go slow.


29 posted on 02/28/2014 7:32:37 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Government stepping in fix your pet peeves is the same as them stepping in to fix your being offended.

Stupid, and it gives them more power to control and fine.

30 posted on 02/28/2014 7:35:10 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: ansel12
The best thing to do about it is get up early enough where you don't have break the law and also rely on your fellow citizens breaking the law to get to work on time.

I'll admit in my younger days I'd sometimes be late and speed when I could. But even then, I never resented the law abiding slowpokes for what was my fault, not theirs.

31 posted on 02/28/2014 7:37:26 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Stupid article. Stupid law. Stupid politicians. The highway is not a race course. I just love turning on my tail lights when some a$$hole is climbing up my tailpipe.
32 posted on 02/28/2014 7:38:39 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We don’t need any more laws.

This proposal is absolutely assinine.


33 posted on 02/28/2014 7:46:27 PM PST by AlmaKing
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

LOL, so you are one of the anal types that assert your control over order, by blocking the passing lane.

Why didn’t you just say so, instead of pretending that laws cannot be written to outlaw your incredibly dangerous behavior?


34 posted on 02/28/2014 7:46:41 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: jsanders2001
can we get the a$$hole who rides your rear bumper and tries to run you off the road while breaking the speed limit a new law?

that is against the law... and i have seen some a$$hole pulled over for it... when i see someone coming up on me, i move on over... let them pass...

35 posted on 02/28/2014 7:49:44 PM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I doubt seriously that police have the time to enforce this sort of thing or that they will.

We have a hands free law here and I watch people texting, talking and sometimes even reading email as they drive down the road, I have yet to see anyone getting a ticket for it.


36 posted on 02/28/2014 7:51:20 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: Lizavetta

Blocking the passing lane is one of the most dangerous activites on the freeway, it breaks the flow of traffic and causes hundreds of high speed lane changes.

While the weirdo is squatting in the fast lane, eyes straight ahead so that he can pretend not to see the havoc he is causing, the rest of the thousands of people on the freeway are all having to adjust to his psychologically caused, deliberate driving incompetence, it is a serious problem, not a pet peeve.


37 posted on 02/28/2014 7:51:51 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: ansel12
I always drive in the right lane unless passing.

While people driving well below the speed limit can cause problems on freeways, by far the biggest dangers are caused by the habitually late or habitually impatient.

38 posted on 02/28/2014 7:52:23 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Georgia is the absolute worst state when it comes to the passing lane.
39 posted on 02/28/2014 7:54:20 PM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
The best thing to do about it is get up early enough where you don't have break the law and also rely on your fellow citizens breaking the law to get to work on time.

it isn't always about running late... sometimes i'm just going to the mall... :)

p.s. i like your name...

40 posted on 02/28/2014 7:58:26 PM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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