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To: AzaleaCity5691
You know, there are some people who have to drive slow in the left land because well, they have to make left hand turns at intersections, of course no one cares about them, they'd rather them miss their turn just so they can be Dale Earnhardt on the city streets
I'm talking primarily about interstates. In Cleveland people are usually pretty good about keeping right while going slow. In Tulsa, where I've also driven a lot, they are horrible about it. In both, virtually all exits are on the right.

I-71 between Cleveland and Columbus and the Ohio Turnkpike between Cleveland and Toledo have more left-lane bandits than they should. Both are limited access highways with (right lane) exits every five miles or so, with at least one mile in every five perfectly straight (they were intentionally designed that way to serve as emergency airstrips in time of war). There's absolutely no reason to drive below the prevailing rate of speed in the left lane, and that includes a artifically low speed limit passed for revenue enhancement reasons.

-Eric

24 posted on 06/05/2005 11:56:15 AM PDT by E Rocc (If God is watching us, we can at least try to be entertaining)
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To: E Rocc

Going the Speed Limit is not driving slow, it's called obeying the law, if you drive faster, you are a lawbreaker and you deserve to be fined.

Those signs are not there as "suggestions", they are there because in order to drive, you need to be able to have a certain breaking distance between each car, and you need to be able to be able to adequately control the car.


31 posted on 06/05/2005 12:05:09 PM PDT by AzaleaCity5691 (Farragut got lucky, if we had been on our game, we would have blasted him off Dauphin Island)
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