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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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