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Left-lane slowpokes drive you crazy? (Some states are cracking down.)
MSN Money ^ | 12/10/2008 | Christopher Solomon

Posted on 12/10/2008 8:53:48 AM PST by Smogger

In these days of longer commutes and simmering tempers, nothing seems to set off already-testy motorists like the left-lane camper -- the guy or gal who drives in the passing lane and bars faster drivers from easily passing. Web sites have cropped up to educate other drivers, or to vent. There's a (somewhat painful) YouTube song called "Keep Right."

Even bigwigs get frustrated. Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell, weary of having his limo slowed down by such left-lane pokies, ordered an aide to have the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission install signs a few years ago reading "Keep Right, Pass Left. It's the Law."

And now some states are cracking down on left-lane campers, both to keep traffic moving and to tamp down the road rage that goes from zero-to-60 faster than ever before.

That's not just a pretext. Last year, a driver was arrested on Interstate 79 outside Pittsburgh after allegedly brandishing a semiautomatic pistol at a driver who was on his tail.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cars; roadrage
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To: Lloyd227

laws differ from state to state on this issue.....and if i want to do the max speed limit in the left lane i will put my cruise control on and drive there to avoid the exit/entrance ramps and you can pass me on the right if so choose to exceed the speed limit....


421 posted on 12/11/2008 11:49:32 AM PST by tatsinfla
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To: Skooz
"Yep. Odd that this is often too complex for some to understand. "

Odd that some of you arrogant @ssholes think it's your God given right to enforse the speedlimit while comfortable cruising in the right lane without one ounce of respect for other people.

Move it over or expect to see my SSR shoved up your @ss (and yes, I have insurance so go ahead and tap the brakes, makes me not one bit nervous)

422 posted on 12/11/2008 11:50:00 AM PST by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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To: Alberta's Child

I’ve recently been watching the show “Speeders” on TruTV. The other day I watched an episode that had the police officer pull over a car that was traveling to slow. He told the driver that the ticket for going to slow was actually about 2x as expensive as a ticket for going to fast.

The driver was struggling to find the local zoo, so he gave them a warning and told them directions to the zoo.


423 posted on 12/11/2008 11:56:47 AM PST by CSM (IÂ’m jubilant! Now that the Dems are completely in charge, we can FINALLY blame THEM for everything!)
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To: tatsinfla
"laws differ from state to state on this issue.....and if i want to do the max speed limit in the left lane i will put my cruise control on and drive there to avoid the exit/entrance ramps and you can pass me on the right if so choose to exceed the speed limit...."

It's more a matter of being aware of others, common practice and common decency.

Should you feel like putting your cruise control on and driving there to avoid the exit/entrance ramps, you can expect to see the front end of my truck very large in your rear view mirror.

Be courteous and move your old @ss over.

424 posted on 12/11/2008 12:06:37 PM PST by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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To: Lloyd227

hey think of it this way...i just may be saving your @aa from a speeding ticketthank you very much....and i do need the money so i wouldn’t get to close if i were you...see i am retiring soon and my 401k took a big hit....


425 posted on 12/11/2008 12:16:43 PM PST by tatsinfla
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To: tatsinfla
"see i am retiring soon and my 401k took a big hit...."

Well suit yourself, just so you're aware that most of the other drivers on the road consider you one tremendous jerk.

426 posted on 12/11/2008 12:23:05 PM PST by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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To: tatsinfla

Nobody asked you to save them from a ticket, it’s not your place. If you need the money, get on welfare or hit the early bird specials, that’s not our problem. Go ahead. One day you will piss off someone crazy enough to run your sanctimonious ass of the road.


427 posted on 12/11/2008 12:24:00 PM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: tatsinfla
.....and if i want to do the max speed limit in the left lane i will put my cruise control on and drive there to avoid the exit/entrance ramps...

You are a great example of the selfishness that is taking over this country.

YOU want to avoid the exit/entrance ramps, so YOU are going to drive in the left lane whether anyone can pass or not.

YOU have YOUR reasons for blocking the lane without considering the reasons someone might need to go faster than the speed limit.

428 posted on 12/11/2008 12:25:04 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Grampa Dave

“It must have been like shooting fish in a barrel for the CHIPs.”

More like shooting beavers in their dam!


429 posted on 12/11/2008 12:29:43 PM PST by CSM (IÂ’m jubilant! Now that the Dems are completely in charge, we can FINALLY blame THEM for everything!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

and what valid reason is there for YOU to exceed said speed limit....don’t be the kettle calling the pot black now.....


430 posted on 12/11/2008 12:33:37 PM PST by tatsinfla
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To: Lloyd227

LOL!

And a Merry Christmas to you, as well.


431 posted on 12/11/2008 12:36:26 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Lloyd227
I also live in CT and the left exits are not so common as to cause need for you to be in that left lane for any more than a mile

I don't know what part of Connecticut you live in, but there are stretches of 84 west of Hartford where you could be sitting in the right hand lane, and between new merge lanes from the right and left lane exits you suddenly find yourself in the far left lane without doing a thing.

Of course I agree that in any event, a mile is plenty of time to get back into the middle or right lane. A lot of people won't give you nearly that much space before they tailgate you or flash lights at the Wallingford Rte 5 exit off of I-91.
432 posted on 12/11/2008 12:38:02 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: tatsinfla

Why do you care? It’s none of your business. Get it?


433 posted on 12/11/2008 12:40:02 PM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: tatsinfla
laws differ from state to state on this issue.....and if i want to do the max speed limit in the left lane i will put my cruise control on and drive there to avoid the exit/entrance ramps and you can pass me on the right if so choose to exceed the speed limit....

You don't want to do that with me on the road.

You see, I'll come up behind you and politely blink my headlights at you.

If you don't move over into the right lane, I'll politely blink my headlights at you again.

If you still won't move over, I'll reach down and toggle my KC HiLites, flooding the cockpit of your car with 300,000 candlepower.

Then I'll back off and let you, quite blindly, meander off of the road and into the ditch or median.

Don't start crap. You don't know what other people will do to finish it.

434 posted on 12/11/2008 12:42:20 PM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: Dr. Sivana; tatsinfla
The context here is regarding those selfish @assholes like tatsinfla (see post 421) who plant themselves in the left lane so as not to be bothered by all the little people entering and exiting and completely without any regard for the traffic line building up behind them.

of course there are left exits in CT and as you describe, a few places where there are so many exits both left and right that this entire conversation clearly would not apply.

The gripe here is on the open freeway where you find both (or all three) lanes all moving the same speed and no open lane remaining to pass because tatsinfla and his cousins all have their Continentals on cruise control in the left hand lane with the cute little dog riding in their lap.

435 posted on 12/11/2008 12:44:52 PM PST by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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To: CSM

“It must have been like shooting fish in a barrel for the CHIPs.”

More like shooting beavers in their dam!

Thanks for the great laugh.


436 posted on 12/11/2008 12:51:36 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not foriegn or domestic terrorists or criminals?)
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To: Republic of Texas

actually you all have no sense of humor at all and that is whats wrong with is country....this all started with me asking a simple question....yesterday... i might add and then today i get attacked for asking it... by a couple of whotevers....no where until attacked today did i say that i drive in the left hand lane for my own convience...i have run across those people also....i was just trying to show that in some states the laws differ and truly wanted to know if they were complaining about the people doing 50 in the left lane in a 70 area or were they complaining about people doing the max speed limit or were the people they were wanting to pass already exceeding the speed limit themselves and they wanted to pass them exceeding it even more....the speed limit is there for a reason whether you are in the right center or left lane....but i know the laws do not apply to all....
i think its funny as hell that the one guy thinks i am old...drive a lincoln and have a dog in my lap....


437 posted on 12/11/2008 12:56:04 PM PST by tatsinfla
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To: Lloyd227

and i believe that you sir have proven that you think the laws on speed limits do not apply to you....nuff said have a grand day....and lets be careful out there....


438 posted on 12/11/2008 12:57:21 PM PST by tatsinfla
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To: tatsinfla
the speed limit is there for a reason whether you are in the right center or left lane

And the "Keep right except to pass" law is there for a reason too, whether you think the person passing you is speeding or not.

439 posted on 12/11/2008 12:59:45 PM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: Knitebane

check the laws in all 50 states and get back to me on that would ya...


440 posted on 12/11/2008 1:02:58 PM PST by tatsinfla
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