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Re: Freeway Etiquette



In article <48flvn$om1@curly.cc.emory.edu>,
Lloyd R. Parker <lparker@curly.cc.emory.edu> wrote:
>Lord Kittenslayer (nbassett@hmc.edu) wrote:
>: On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Adam Szymczak wrote:
>
>: > My biggest beef: people who insist on driving in the middle lane around 
>: > the speed limit on 3 or more lane highways. I have one piece of advice: 
>: > MOVE OVER! I hate passing on the right, especially near onramps/offramps. 
>: > Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that passing on the right is 
>: > illegal in Germany and other European countries.
>
>So why don't you pass on the left if the other car is in the middle 
>lane?  After all, that's really what the left lane is for on a 3 or more 
>line highway.  Why would anybody pass on the right in this situation?

I realized I forgot the following part in the above message.

I would pass on the left hand side except there is a dork in the left 
lane who is doing the same speed or marginally faster (1 km/h more) then 
the dork in the middle lane. What I tend to see is that people drive the 
limit in the middle lane, and that other drivers doing 5-10 km/h more 
will shift to the left lane, creating a line of at least 8-10 cars 
driving in close proximity of each other. And then I see the right lane 
totally empty. What to do, what to do?

I pass on the right. However, I hate that, since most onramps/offramps are
on the right side and there always seems to be some driver that thinks he
can immediately merge into 100 km/h traffic at 90km/h instead of using the
remaining 100-200m of onramp to accelerate to highway speed.

My wife was on the onramp, a very long onramp, to a expressway. The car in
front her was doing maybe 80km/h (not 100km like they should be doing)
when that driver merged right into the highway and almost got runover by a
tractor-trailer. I wonder what those mirrors are for? 

Here in Windsor the expressway is a joke, People treat it as a normal 
city street. They coast along at 80km on an 100km/h highway. Anyways, it 
is also the worst designed highway, and is slowly falling apart.


-- 
Yours truly,

Adam Szymczak, BA		Master of Arts in Geography (Urban Planning)
szymcza@server.uwindsor.ca	University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada


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