Posted on 06/02/2004 9:52:31 AM PDT by qam1
The National Motorists Association has designated June as Lane Courtesy Month with the slogan "Do The RIGHT Thing!"
Lane Courtesy, also called Lane Discipline, has a powerful influence on highway safety, traffic flow and congestion. Arguably, its effect is more important than speed limits, traffic enforcement or any other attempt to control driver behavior. Ask almost any motorist what most raises their ire when using major highways and the answer will be "failure of slower traffic to keep right or yield to the right when faster traffic approaches."
Lane Courtesy is desperately needed on our roads. NMA has developed five topical articles that address separate aspects of the Lane Courtesy concept and hopes you will consider using one or more of these articles as the 2004 summer driving season begins. Please visit http://www.motorists.org/ to read articles and find out more about this initiative.
I really honestly believe they don't teach "slower traffic keep right" anymore. They didn't teach it to me when I took Driver's Ed in Virginia 22 years ago. And my mother always used to tell me, "You've got as much right to that left lane as those speeders do, so you use it!"
How I survived a year driving an 1800-pound Datsun B210 at 55 mph in the left lane, I'll never know. But it took me a year to finally figure out why so many people were flipping me off...
(and no, I don't hog the left lane anymore)
}:-)4
People in Texas are more or less good at this, but since moving to North Carolina I've lost it every time I'm on the highway. NO ONE yields to faster traffic in the left lane EVER!
Another thing: When entering the highway via an onramp, it may be necessary to speed up or slow down in order to merge. Every single darn time people accelerate to whatever speed the want to go, get to the end of the ramp, look at traffic then keep driving the same speed. Even if it means they're on the shoulder.
"Get bent, Smallville."
So much for Lane Courtesy Month....
Connecticut drivers are the worst at this game. The NJ & NY drivers run 90, in all 4 lanes (on a 3 lane road) so they are oblivious to the problem.
As a Pennsylvania driver, I'm going to draw a cheerful smiley face on the nail of my middle finger.
That's my third biggest pet peeve about other drivers (Right after slow drivers in left lane and the 98% of all drivers who start off at idle speed after the light turns green), The morons who drive 25-30 mph down a long entrance ramp onto to a highway where the speed limit is 55 or above.
now THAT'S funny.... :-)
Truck fire closes I-95 in Bridgeport (again)
Here's and excerpt:
Police have released the truck driver's name, he's 71-year-old Sam Owens from New Jersey . Police say Owens was following too close to traffic and was driving too fast in a construction zone.
Funny, we used to have a saying when we lived in New York, "Jersey driver, no survivors."
Unfortunately, lane discipline is not followed much. I have family members who think they have a "right" to be in the left lane doing the speed limit or even less than that. It's pointless arguing with them. It's people like that who cause accidents because other cars have to weave in and out of traffic to get around them.
My personal anthem while driving is the Ludacris song that goes like this: "Move B@$#h get out the way." Sums up how I feel about people not driving right.
This will still be lost upon Cincinnati drivers, America's worst.
Actually, it will be lost on Ohio drivers in general who will risk life and limb to cut into the leftmost lane, then drive at 10mph below the speed limit.
Blithering idiots.
Blithering idiots is too kind.
They are horrible too but compared to Ct. drivers yes they are the bomb, But then again Ct. drivers are by far the worst in the country and make any other state's drivers look great.
Truck fire closes I-95 in Bridgeport (again)
Again? Who were the others?
Here's and excerpt:
Police have released the truck driver's name, he's 71-year-old Sam Owens from New Jersey.
I like to know what a 71 year old is still doing behind the wheel of a big rig.
Police say Owens was following too close to traffic
No doubt because Ct. drivers were driving too damm slow in the left lane like always.
and was driving too fast in a construction zone.
What's fast? Only in Ct. would a 71 year old truck driver be considered as driving fast.
Just on these few details and my experience driving through that state I already know what happened. Besides not moving from the Left Lane Ct. drivers have another annoying habit of slamming their brakes at the slightest curve or bump in the road. So no doubt this truck was stuck behind some Ct. driver who wouldn't move so he was tailgating and there is a slight curve in the road and which caused all the lame Ct. drivers in all lanes to slam on their brakes leaving him nowhere to go except to hit the bridge.
"failure of slower traffic to keep right or yield to the right when faster traffic approaches."
It is my number one gripe. The Europeans are smart enough to do this, why cannot we Americans?
They shouldn't teach "slower traffic keep right." Even if people obeyed it, it wouldn't help, because no one thinks that they're "slower traffic."
When I'm elected king, I'll take down all the signs that say "slower traffic keep right," and replace them with signs that say "LEFT LANE FOR PASSING ONLY."
They have something similar "Keep Right except to pass" in New York on the thurway thru the Catskills,
It doesn't help
Where do you live in NC?
I'm in Rocky Mount.
Well, that settles it then. Good luck to you.
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