Posted on 04/04/2005 11:07:55 AM PDT by KidGlock
You may be surprised. There is a fair number of people here on FR which support the "Well, I'm going speed limit so too bad." approach to left lane driving.
I was on the left lane on the Oklahoma Turnpike a couple weeks ago. Speed limit is 75 and I was doing a bit over 85. I had passed a slowpoke, then looked in my mirror and was briefly terrified by two highway patrolmen on my bumper, lights flashing. They passed me at > 100, on their way to an accident. Talk about pucker factor !
I'm not exactly sure what a "full employment act" is. But whatever it is, it is a dang good use of traffic patrol time. As can be seen in this thread, a lot of people are very happy to hear about this and wish the same was being done in their states.
There is nothing wrong with dedicating these resources to something that will make many thousands of people happy. We do call it government service for a reason. Nice to see in Colorado the motorists are getting some.
I hope if you get someone in court on one of these tickets that you will suspend their license for 6 months and give them 100,000 hours or community service. If that sounds to harsh, view them like you would a spammer that is clogging everyone's email with junk mail.
LOL
Barring some law, driving the speed limit in the left lane is legal. But so is picking your nose at the dinner table and farting in church.
Just because boorish behavior is legal doesn't mean that people should engage in it.
LOL!
And everyone is saluting it, too!
OK FReepers, where exactly is that right 'not to be annoyed'?
I will agree with you about "Q-tips" in Florida, but would line up Baltimorons against anyone else for second worst.
Regulation of publicly-owned roadways is a proper power of government, especially local and state governments.
Minnesota! The typical liberal Volvo with stickers for Kerry, WWWD, antiwar stuff, and maybe a rainbow, typically operated in one of two extremes.
1. 55 mph in the left lane, even when the posted limit is 70 mph
2. 80 mph even when the posted limit is 50 mph, weaving in traffic, making the extra effort to cut off vehicles with Bush/Cheney of W04 stickers. Saw this kind a few days ago on Highway 13 through Eagan.
I live in Minnesota, I run a business in Minnesota, but I remain a TEXAN!
Canadians in Florida are the worst rolling roadblocks of all. I'm convinced that the checkerd flag has not yet dropped to end the 1997 Canadian Grand Prix.
they're people who always wanted to be State Troopers ,but were too old,frail or lazy to go to school to do so.
The 'propriety' wasn't the question.
To make it plainer:
There is a great deal of applause for more government regulation on this CONSERVATIVE site.
I thought you were talking about Seattle.
"it is against the law to pass on the right on the autobahn."
Minimum 4 month license suspension. The suspension starts when the highway officer pulls over the offending driver (at least one case where they don't have "innocent until proven guilty" over there). The offending driver is taking the bus or train home, but if it's DWI it's a whole 'nuther matter. Four months later is the hearing before the magistrate. Heavy fine, MAYBE the offending driver gets his license back.
I have driven in Germany on the Autobahn (220 stundekilometer in the hammer lane). I have noticed a lot more "situational awareness" with most of the drivers compared to stateside. Of course when there is a wreck on the Autobahn, it's messy. One time I was driving from Wesel back to Dusseldorf Flughafen, made a wrong turn at the interchange by Oberhausen. Wound up going the long way via Krefeld and Monchengladbach (still all Autobahn). Got to the Lufthansa ticket counter w/ less than an hour to spare, apologized to the clerk for being late. She replied that there was a major multivehicle wreck between Oberhausen and Dusseldorf Flughafen, so if I had not made the wrong turn, I would have been going nowhere - missing the flight.
The roadways, unfortunately, can only be regulated by the government. There is no other way to ensure order in such an environment. If a significant number of people are engaging in activities that make the roadways less efficient, such as hogging the left lane, government should step in and clear up that inefficiency.
Yeah, I remember the "keep Texas moving" campaign to allegedly curb the left lane hogs. I don't think it worked.
The four most difficult-to-understand words in the English language: "Slower Traffic Keep Right."
Self-righteous, self-appointed speed bumps are what they are. lol
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