"driving" in the left lane. YES it's illegal.

dward51 wrote:

mgirardo wrote:
Georgia enacted a similar law a few years ago. I've never seen it enforced.

In GA, the idea is to keep traffic flowing. Someone hogging the left lane causes traffic to slow down. It's not to reward speeders, it is to keep traffic flowing in an effort to reduce accidents.

-Michael

The GA law is a little different. It's not a stay out of the left lane except to pass, but is a yield to faster vehicles. If you are not holding up anyone you can drive in the far left lane all you want.

Problem is in GA (especially in Atlanta), speed limits are not even a suggestion anymore. If you go the speed limit even in the right lane, you will get ran over and cussed by everyone and you will be holding up traffic. We locals joke about I-285 around Atlanta being a NASCAR training ground.

That sounds like up here. A morning show radio announcer recently repeated an old joke about highway driving.

“I was doing 30 OVER the speed limit and another driver got right up my back-side, flashing their lights, honking their horn and flipping me off, so I moved over. The worst part was...... it wasn’t JUST the nun driving the school bus ...... all the kids were flipping me off too!!!”