05-04-2005 00:00									#1
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quote: DENVER - Colorado is serious about its no-dawdling law in left lanes. Drivers who insist on staying in the passing lane are risking tickets as the State Patrol has begun enforcing a law requiring motorists to use the left lane for passing only. Since the patrol started enforcing the "Left Lane Law" three months ago, troopers have written about 460 tickets or about an average of five a day to drivers who dawdle in the left lane. The law applies in zones with speed limits of 65 mph or higher. It took effect July 1, but troopers gave drivers until January to get used to the new law; warnings were issued instead of tickets. Master Trooper Ron Watkins said that since the ticketing campaign began three months ago about 90 percent of the drivers he has pulled over for dawdling or cruising in the left lane said they didn't know that it was illegal to do so. Violators of the left lane rule may be fined up to $41 and have three points tacked onto their driver's licenses. The law is not enforced when the highway is too congested to allow drivers to pass.

Basicly, if your not passing anyone, STAY OUT OF THE PASSING LANE!!!!

Not that there are any stupid drivers posting on Apolyton...

Oh, here's the link.

	05-04-2005 00:02									#2
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Damn, there goes my business idea to have after market missiles mounted on the front of cars.

	05-04-2005 00:05									#3
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They spent a fortune on the signs that say "Slower Traffic Keep Right" and damnit!@ they mean it!

Here's a better warning to stupid drivers: I'm out there, in a 3/4 ton pick up, with no bumper gaurds, a plethera of scratches and dings, a solid steel fender, and a huge dislike for YOU!

hahahaha!

	05-04-2005 00:06									#4
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I don't think putting the slower drivers in the right hand lane here would work well

	05-04-2005 00:10									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison I don't think putting the slower drivers in the right hand lane here would work well

If by right hand lane you mean in a ditch disguised as a smoldering heap, then yep it works well everywhere.

	05-04-2005 00:11									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Donegeal Basicly, if your not passing anyone, STAY OUT OF THE PASSING LANE!!!!

	05-04-2005 00:14									#7
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Other states already have those laws - when I was a teenager a friend I was driving with got ticketed for that - in an old VW bug - in NJ on an empty highway except for us and the cop at 2AM. The cop pulled us over thinking he was drunk - the problem was it was winter, the air heating system had rusted out, and we were trying to keep the windows cleared off due to our own breath in the VW. He was SOOO pissed, the cop was determined to write some sort of ticket.

	05-04-2005 00:17									#8
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quote: I don't think putting the slower drivers in the right hand lane here would work well

The problem with CA driving is two-fold: ppl don't know how to merge and would rather stop to either get on the freeway or let others on the freeway, and the carpool lane is in the far left side of the road so all the carpool idiots have to "merge" through 3-6 lanes of traffic for four exits, and then "merge" back.

When you come up to a wall of cars and no one is passing anyone, and they are all doing 55 in a 75, it's really annoying. We here, in redneckville, call that a "chinese roadblock"

	05-04-2005 00:23									#9
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In Illinois, if you are doing the legal speed limit and are driving in the left lane, you must get out of it if a speeder comes up behind you. Even though the speeder is breaking the law, you could be ticketed for slowing them down... and they have issued a bunch of tickets

I love this comment from the Illinois Official Web site...

quote: Rutherford added, “I have been asked if one is driving the speed limit in the left lane and cars come up form behind speeding, is the lead car in the left lane at fault? The answer is if one is detaining traffic in the left, it is their obligation to move over to the right. The lead car in the left is not responsible to be the enforcer of the law, not to be the hall monitor. It would be their obligation to get out of the left lane and let the law enforcement officials ticket the speeders.”

And the law has made a difference... people now get out of my way when I cruise up behind them

	05-04-2005 00:25									#10
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Speed Limits are really just "suggestions" as it represents the general rate at which traffic should flow. Cops are able to give tickets to people going at or below the speed limit if they believe that the driving conditions warrent the speed unsafe.

Excpetion: "Maximum Speed Limit"s are to never be exceeded.

Unless it's a construction zone.

	05-04-2005 00:32									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Ming In Illinois...

In Wisconsin, it is an unwritten rule to watch out for FIBs. Although they hold me up as much as the next guy. Its those damn Minnasota drivers that REALLY drive me crazy...

	05-04-2005 00:33									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Japher They spent a fortune on the signs that say "Slower Traffic Keep Right" and damnit!@ they mean it! Here's a better warning to stupid drivers: I'm out there, in a 3/4 ton pick up, with no bumper gaurds, a plethera of scratches and dings, a solid steel fender, and a huge dislike for YOU! hahahaha!

Try and catch me.

I should have my own lane. Yea. I should.


SPec.

	05-04-2005 00:37									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Donegeal Its those damn Minnasota drivers that REALLY drive me crazy...

PREPARE TO DIE!!!

	05-04-2005 00:40									#14
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quote: Try and catch me. I should have my own lane. Yea. I should.

It's only those I catch that I have the problems with.

	05-04-2005 00:42									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Japher They spent a fortune on the signs that say "Slower Traffic Keep Right" and damnit!@ they mean it!

"Slower Traffic keep right" is a bit ambiguous actually as people doing the speed limit will not think of themselves as "slower traffic"


I think a sign that says "KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS" is much clearer

	05-04-2005 00:49									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Japher It's only those I catch that I have the problems with.

I'll just toy with you then.

Catch up to you, get in front of you, slow down to 25 mph, then, just before you blow your fuse I'll go back up to your cruising speed, 30mph...ok ok 35mph , turn on my hasards, stick it back into second and burn it all the way to third so that you eat my rubber. And I'll do this again, and again, and again. Then you'll want to catch me. And you you'll fail...

HA! I beat an engineer! Watch me gloat!


Imaginary victories are the best!

Spec.

	05-04-2005 00:52									#17
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If you really want to get my goat, turn on your windsheild wipper fluid when you're in front of me. I hATE it when ppl do that!

	05-04-2005 00:53									#18
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Shut up, Wesley.

	05-04-2005 00:55									#19
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Florida needs one of these laws.

	05-04-2005 00:56									#20
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Over the AARP's dead body it will have one...

	05-04-2005 00:57									#21
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So it's just a matter of time then.

	05-04-2005 01:00									#22
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Umm, I am not sure this is such a good idea. It seems to me that this would keep traffic carrying capacity down. Think: if less people are using the passing lane, it remains mostly empty.

I think that a "slower vehicles right, faster vehicles left" rule would be better.

	05-04-2005 01:03									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel Umm, I am not sure this is such a good idea. It seems to me that this would keep traffic carrying capacity down. Think: if less people are using the passing lane, it remains mostly empty. I think that a "slower vehicles right, faster vehicles left" rule would be better.

But that's exactly why this is necessary: Slow people aren't following that. They're using the left lane as a travel lane instead of a passing lane. Sure speeders are using it as a travel lane themselves, but they're still passing traffic to their right. Have you ever driven on a multi-lane road before? You get a group of these slow hall moniters-type drivers and you have yourself a rolling traffic jam.

	05-04-2005 01:06									#24
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quote: Have you ever driven on a multi-lane road before?

I did that for a living, for some time.

what needs to be done is the adjustment of speed limits to realistic rates, and then the fining of those who consistently and without reason drive slower than the speed limit on the left line.

It's very simple, but stupid anachronistic speed limits are here to stay. ( But hey, the law is the law. Even when you don't like it)

	05-04-2005 01:08									#25
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I was being facecious, Az.

	05-04-2005 01:20									#26
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quote: I was being facecious, Az.

Wow. That's impressive. I don't even know what that means.

	05-04-2005 01:32									#27
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where I live people driving the speed limit will intentionally stay in the left lane, because they believe it's their moral right to prevent people from exceeding the speed limit.

	05-04-2005 01:33									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident where I live people driving the speed limit will intentionally stay in the left lane, because they believe it's their moral right to prevent people from exceeding the speed limit.

That used to happen all the time in Illinois...

Not any more

	05-04-2005 01:35									#29
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They should let the police do their job, imho.

	05-04-2005 01:35									#30
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also, another problem where I live is there's just too much traffic to insist people stay out of the left lane.