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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Talk about using any argument, no matter how fallacious, to be able to do whatever you like! The speed limit for the passing lane is the maximum speed limit posted for the road!!! The traveling lane may have a minimum speed limit, say 45 mph, when the maximum speed limit is 70 mph. This means that someone driving in the traveling lane may travel at any speed between 45 and 70. Drivers using the passing lane are supposed to be traveling at a maximum of 70 mph, the maximum speed limit for the road. If you are driving over 70 mph on a road posted 70 mph, you are speeding and breaking the law, not to mention possibly driving to endanger. Not that hard to comprehend.

It truly sounds like some FR posters are trying to rationalize breaking the law and then castigating other posters for getting in the way of them doing it! Speed limits are set for everyone's safety. Police don't give tickets for observing the speed limit. They give tickets for drivers exceeding the speed limit as they are the drivers who are behaving dangerously. The logic on this thread by some posters is bizarre!

315 posted on 08/23/2010 4:44:49 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

Oh, boy, and I thought I was getting flamed! Hope you have your asbestos on.


316 posted on 08/23/2010 4:50:41 PM PDT by Genoa (Titus 2:13)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett; Genoa

Anybody who drives the speed limit in the left lane of an American highway, unless everybody in front of them is doing the same, is a menace, and causing unnecessary risk to themselves and others.

And a police officer would tell you the same thing. You go the speed of the traffic. Heck, even Genoa drives 6 miles over the limit; most people who “obey the law” do so by driving 9 miles or less over the limit.

Simply put — if you drive too slow in the left lane, you will make people upset, and upset drivers are dangerous to you and others. Better to move over, let them pass, and stop worrying about whether other people are “getting away” with something.


343 posted on 08/23/2010 8:28:31 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: My hearts in London - Everett
Since I've never had a crash, I dismiss the safety argument.

Otherwise, consider it civil disobedience. Just because it's the law, it don't make it right.

352 posted on 08/24/2010 6:05:26 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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