Posted on 05/15/2007 12:01:24 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
LEFT LANE DRIVERS of AMERICA
If youre not a Left Lane Driver then get out of the Left Lane!
Traffic has become increasingly congested and tempers flare as slower drivers occupy what has been historically referred to as the fast lane. Its time to get that Left Lane back! It is our considered opinion that not only will traffic move more smoothly and more quickly once the Left Lane is used in the way it has been designed but also headaches, frustration, bad tempers and road rage will all be greatly reduced when this pressure valve is released. Its time to reduce this unnecessary stress. Its time that LEFT LANE DRIVERS UNITE!
We invite you to join Left Lane Drivers of America, a growing, grassroots effort to reclaim the Left Lanes on our freeways and multiple lane highways. To do this, those of us who are genuine Left Lane drivers are politely but firmly reminding others what the Left Lane is for.
(Excerpt) Read more at leftlanedrivers.org ...
This is a topical thread, considering our discussion over on the NC board.
Oops, didn’t see your post. LOL!
Dyslexic Drivers Untie!
I’m normally a fast driver, but if I saw that in my mirror, my response would be to flash my 38.
You move over. A little courtesy won't kill you, and it's the right thing to do. If you're not passing anyone, and you're not in stop-and-go traffic, you have no business being in the far left lane.
You don’t know what you are talking about.
If we are buying gas, we "can" afford the price, by definition. If we couldn't afford it we couldn't, thus wouldn't, buy it.
p.s. The modest reduction in demand that would result from everyone in the U.S.A. driving 55mph would make virtually zero dent in the world price of oil, thus zero dent in the price of gasoline. You may have heard of other large nations. China and India for example. Well it may interest you to learn that oil is a commodity, and those other nations purchase oil too.
OMG...
Please tell me how much I need to contribute to become a *GOLD* member! I’d also like to sit on the board.
If there was ever one good thing about France, it’s that cops there frequently pull drivers over for slowpoking in the left lane...it’s a moving violation of ‘obstructing traffic flow’.
Not sure about the rest of Europe, but I know they enforce it en Francais.
It is the law in many states. So is the failure of lane change signalling and not using turn signals in general. The cops no longer enforce the law.
And why should they? We don't arrest illegal aliens either.
That's the way it works in Germany. You can drive in just the middle lane of a deserted three-lane Autobahn and they will ticket you if they catch you. I've seen it.
The rule: You stay in the right lane unless you're passing.
Complementary rule: You cannot pass on the right.
(of course all that goes out the window during a heavy traffic jam)
Of course, technically it’s not the fast lane, it’s the passing lane. But the end result is the same.
That argument was made by those who are in the long haul trucking industry, which continues to have the 55 speed limit imposed on them. Sorry, try again.
Good point. There’s nothing quite like trying to pass a BST (Big Scary Truck) who is squeezing into your lane, while another rig roars up from behind. Maybe it’s the little white pills that makes ‘em mean.
HUH?????????? Whatever floats your boat!!!!
BS
There you are trapped by a solid double yellow line to your right, a concrete wall to your left, and a car doing 65 right in front of you. Meanwhile, traffic in the other lanes is zippin by at 80-85.
I move over and let the faster vehicle pass me, if at all possible.
Rule of thumb: If someone is behind you, and going faster than you, or prevented from going faster than you ONLY because you are in front of them, then you are in the wrong lane and need to move to the right. (if traffic allows, of course)
In my experience, those that complain the most about slower drivers in the left lane are also the least likely to cede the lane when faster traffic comes up behind them.
Well consider me a counterexample.
I was driving behind a pickup on the way home a few weeks ago, and thought the driver was DUI. The road is full of curves(I think they followed a snake trail when they built the road) and this guy was over the lane dividing stripes one minute and then almost in the ditch.
I followed him for over five miles and was afraid to pass, as were the other drivers. I wasn’t in that big a hurry to have a crash with him, so I just followed at a safe distance. As we came into a small town, he hung up his cell phone. After that, he drove normally.
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