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How many left-lane slowpokes have been fined under new Va. law?
WTOP, 103.5 FM, Washington DC ^ | April 9, 2018 3:56 am | Max Smith

Posted on 04/10/2018 2:00:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Thousands of people have been fined in the months since Virginia, for the first time, imposed penalties on people who drive too slowly in the left lane or commit other related traffic violations, data obtained through a public records request show.

Beginning July 1, 2017, Virginia set a $100 fine for driving too slowly in the left lane, failing to stay to the right side except when passing, and other violations, such as crossing a double yellow line. Before that, the infractions were considered legal violations but had no fines attached.

A similar effort in Maryland narrowly failed in the state senate last year amid concerns the ban would simply be an excuse for police to pull drivers over. This year, bills to restrict the use of the left lane in Maryland failed to advance to the House floor.

From July 1, 2017 through April 3, 2018, 1,951 citations were filed in general district courts across the state for failing to drive on the right half of the highway except when overtaking and passing another vehicle, according to data provided to WTOP by the Supreme Court of Virginia in response to a public records request. …

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TOPICS: Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: leftlane; obstructingtraffic; slowpokes; virginia
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To: Olog-hai

“I’m DOING the speed limit!”


41 posted on 04/10/2018 3:12:43 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: Sequoyah101

How about the roads where the Street Outlaws race? Are they bad too?


42 posted on 04/10/2018 3:21:05 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (a pures)
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To: daler
THEY have decided what is the best speed, and, by God, THAT's the speed everyone else is just going to have to live with.

Actually, the speed limit is what the law has decided what the best speed should be. I stay in the right lane and stay out of the way of the habitually agitated, but I don't have much sympathy when chronic speeders think that they are above the law. And even in my younger speeding days, I never resented people slowing me down because my impatience and/or my lateness is my problem and my fault, not their's.

43 posted on 04/10/2018 3:28:15 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: rockrr

The number one reason missiles and cannon should be an available truck option!


44 posted on 04/10/2018 4:10:49 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: rockrr

“....with the right-turn signal going LoL”

EXACTLY!!
Keep’em guessing.


45 posted on 04/10/2018 4:17:30 PM PDT by oldvirginian ("The people built this country. And it is the people who are making America great again.” D TRUMP)
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To: All

If they ride with me, they’ll be charging 10 people a day. I’m constantly making dangerous passing maneuvers to go around slow drivers that loiter..


46 posted on 04/10/2018 4:21:39 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Olog-hai

We’ve had such a law in Jersey for years with signs around reminding drivers - sadly, it never seems to be enforced.....


47 posted on 04/10/2018 4:24:58 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Olog-hai

9 out of 10 times, they are driving a Subaroooo.

Subaru. The new Volvo.


48 posted on 04/10/2018 4:33:49 PM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: dfwgator

That’s the perfect name for it.


49 posted on 04/10/2018 4:44:51 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Olog-hai

$100 is too light. Should be a capital offense.


50 posted on 04/10/2018 5:13:07 PM PDT by 50mm (.. / -.. .. -.. / - .... .. ... / ..-. --- .-. / -. --- / .-. . .- ... --- -. .-.-.-)
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To: 21twelve

All this moaning about other drivers...

This is why I really can’t wait for autonomously driven vehicles.

Just wake me up at the destination, driving has lost it’s thrill for me.


51 posted on 04/10/2018 6:17:09 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: dfwgator
I liked Gallagher’s idea of having a gun that would shoot these arrows with flags on the end that say, “Stupid!”, everytime you see someone do something stupid on the road.

Paintball guns... (water soluble, of course...)

52 posted on 04/10/2018 7:07:45 PM PDT by publius911 (Declaration: MSM, I am so over watching or listening to bald perverts, thugs and sluts)
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To: rockrr
Left-lane campers - scourge of humanity!

On California I5 through the Central Valley...

Out of State tourists
Pickups hauling trailers doing way more than 55...

On the positive side, 9 out of 10 semi truck drivers are excellent and predictable drivers.

53 posted on 04/10/2018 7:30:43 PM PDT by publius911 (Declaration: MSM, I am so over watching or listening to bald perverts, thugs and sluts)
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To: rockrr

I’m guilty. Yes sir. I’m over sixty, I drive slow in the left lane with my left blinker on all the way.


54 posted on 04/10/2018 10:28:23 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Poison Pill

Try this on I10 heading into
Houston, where they are already
driving 20 over. Speed limit is
75. Raise it and you’d have some
going well over a 100...if you
ain’t passing, in a reasonable
time...move the heck over...
especially if all you can see
in your rear view is their grille.
Drove back and forth from Roswell
to Houston for five years. Learned
a lot...699 miles each way.


55 posted on 04/10/2018 11:50:36 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve read all the replies. You sure can tell who the guilty are.

Here’s a life tip, and it is simple courtesy:

If someone wants to go faster than you on a four lane, move over to the right lane (as soon as you can) and let them pass. EVEN if you’re overtaking another car, but it will take you several minutes to get around them to do so, then slow a little, get behind the car you intended to overtake (but slowly), let the other driver pass, then get back in the left and do your slow overtake.


56 posted on 04/11/2018 4:25:09 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (If white privilege is real, why do we have millions of poor white people?)
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To: Olog-hai

For some reason when I pass rolling road blocks I find the need to hit my window wash very liberally and it seems to coat the offenders car. One of these days I am going to fill the rear wiper reserve with baby oil and try that.


57 posted on 04/11/2018 4:48:30 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: hal ogen

I always just pass on the left and generally stay in the right hand lane except to pass on three lane roads as well. Some people camp in the center lane at a slow speeds which I don’t understand.

The HOV lanes are different. It is government micromanagement at it’s worse. I have been stuck in traffic in rush hour with only a few people using the HOV lanes. They are a waste.


58 posted on 04/11/2018 7:33:38 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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