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"Left Lane Drivers Unite!" - LEFT LANE DRIVERS of AMERICA
LeftLaneDrivers.org ^ | 2007 | LeftLaneDrivers.org

Posted on 05/15/2007 12:01:24 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

LEFT LANE DRIVERS of AMERICA

“If you’re 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”. It’s 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. It’s time to reduce this unnecessary stress. It’s 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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cars; commute; disobeythelaw; driver; fastlane; freeway; highway; ignorespeedlimit; ignoretrafficlaws; imbeciles; lawsnotforyou; leftlane; roadrage; speed; traffic
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To: Lee'sGhost; Moose4; billbears; RegulatorCountry; NCSteve; Littlejon

This is a topical thread, considering our discussion over on the NC board.


61 posted on 05/15/2007 12:30:03 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Well see you later, innovator)
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To: billbears

Oops, didn’t see your post. LOL!


62 posted on 05/15/2007 12:30:38 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Well see you later, innovator)
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To: DogByte6RER
"Left Lane Drivers Unite!"

Dyslexic Drivers Untie!

63 posted on 05/15/2007 12:31:17 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: DogByte6RER

I’m normally a fast driver, but if I saw that in my mirror, my response would be to flash my 38.


64 posted on 05/15/2007 12:31:24 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Fred Thompson for President-I really mean it!)
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To: Arrowhead1952
I am definitely not in favor of banning cell phone use in cars, as a number of states have done, but some people (**cough** women) have to wise up about how they use them.
65 posted on 05/15/2007 12:32:02 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: Sergio
Really, and honestly, do you move over and let the faster vehicle pass or do you think to yourself that you’re going fast enough and the lunatic behind you should either slow down, or find his own way around you?

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.

66 posted on 05/15/2007 12:32:32 PM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Moonman62

You don’t know what you are talking about.


67 posted on 05/15/2007 12:32:44 PM PDT by T.Smith
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To: SoldierDad
I think everyone should slow down to 55 miles per hour and stop burning fuel at a rate we all can’t afford. The savings in fuel would necessitate a drop in price.

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.

68 posted on 05/15/2007 12:33:02 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: DogByte6RER

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.


69 posted on 05/15/2007 12:33:44 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; The majority are satisfied with a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: TChris
Unless and until this becomes law, rather than a recommendation, and drivers are ticketed for slowing down the Fast Lane, the practice will continue unabated.

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.

70 posted on 05/15/2007 12:34:49 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: TChris
Unless and until this becomes law, rather than a recommendation, and drivers are ticketed for slowing down the Fast Lane,

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)

71 posted on 05/15/2007 12:35:07 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: DogByte6RER

Of course, technically it’s not the fast lane, it’s the passing lane. But the end result is the same.


72 posted on 05/15/2007 12:36:10 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: Spktyr

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.


73 posted on 05/15/2007 12:36:56 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in the Triangle of Death)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

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.


74 posted on 05/15/2007 12:37:12 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

HUH?????????? Whatever floats your boat!!!!


75 posted on 05/15/2007 12:38:02 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in the Triangle of Death)
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To: DogByte6RER

76 posted on 05/15/2007 12:38:56 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: billbears
And in actuality I get better gas mileage at 70 than I do at 55

BS

77 posted on 05/15/2007 12:39:11 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in the Triangle of Death)
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To: Sergio
That would make more sense if it said:

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.

78 posted on 05/15/2007 12:39:23 PM PDT by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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To: Sergio
Let’s say you are going 15 MPH over the speed limit in the left lane, there is no one ahead of you. In your rear view mirror you see someone rapidly approaching. Really, and honestly, do you move over and let the faster vehicle pass or do you think to yourself that you’re going fast enough and the lunatic behind you should either slow down, or find his own way around you?

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.

79 posted on 05/15/2007 12:40:01 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: andy58-in-nh

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.


80 posted on 05/15/2007 12:40:16 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns don't kill people. None of my guns ever left the house at night and killed anyone.)
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