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- I was very greatful when Kansas passed a law requiring you to stay right except for passing (does not apply to cities ). We had a major problem of people driving side by side under the speed limit and you could not pass. Glad they are enforcing the law.
valhalla360 wrote:
PS: If everyone is going faster than the speed limit, the speed limit is set incorrectly. The Institute of Traffic Engineers recommended practice is to take the 85th percentile speed and round to the nearest 5mph when setting the speed limit. If 90% of traffic is exceeding the speed limit, it's not the 90% of drivers that are in the wrong, it's the officials setting the speed limit that are wrong.
I've read this many times in the past. If the theory is correct, most Interstate Highway speed limits should be posted at 90 MPH and, 15 MPH school zones would eliminated. :B- Most of these type discussions seem to always gravitate towards wrongly opinioned conclusions something like this:
"If vehicles all around you are going over the speed limit and you're not and if there is not a right-hand slow lane or appropriate slow vehicle turnouts ... then you are out of line if you don't speed up to match the rest of the law breakers."
And the bottom-line justification for the above position being in the right is usually "safety".
The above is baloney thinking.
How about more enforcement of speed limits and way stiffer fines for the caught speed law violators? Maybe more (expensive) law enforcement officers and their vehicles is not required. Maybe it's instead way cheaper and better to use license plate reading radar detectors installed all over the country to slow drivers down.
For example, a couple weeks ago we were traveling downhill on a winding mountain road with a 40 MPH speed limit and we were traveling 2-3 MPH faster and still barely safely than this in our motorhome. There were no safe pullouts and no road shoulders. An impatient pickup soon pulled up behind, tailgating us. The pickup (male) driver soon passed us crossing double yellow lines, gave use a certain finger as he passed us, and quickly pulled away obviously going way faster than 40 MPH.
The above baloney stuff goes on all the time. Something is out of whack on this county's roadways. When is it going to end? For Pete's Sack ... IMHO millions of drivers need to slow down and smell either the roses or the fuel fumes! DutchmenSport wrote:
The article says no where how fast or slow this offender was going. If the "offender" was traveling the speed limit, then this office is completely wrong.
Nope. Sorry. It is YOU who is completely wrong.
The speed limit is one law.
The "left lane obstruction" law is entirely different.
As it said farther down, lane obstruction can occur regardless of how fast you are going.
And most of the time the "offender" is doing exactly the limit.
Still against the law.
A really LOT of states have passed those laws recently.
Goes along with the signs that say "Slower traffic keep right".pnichols wrote:
Most of these type discussions seem to always gravitate towards wrongly opinioned conclusions something like this:
"If vehicles all around you are going over the speed limit and you're not and if there is not a right-hand slow lane or appropriate slow vehicle turnouts ... then you are out of line if you don't speed up to match the rest of the law breakers."
And the bottom-line justification for the above position being in the right is usually "safety".
The above is baloney thinking.
How about more enforcement of speed limits and way stiffer fines for the caught speed law violators? Maybe more (expensive) law enforcement officers and their vehicles is not required. Maybe it's instead way cheaper and better to use license plate reading radar detectors installed all over the country to slow drivers down.
For example, a couple weeks ago we were traveling downhill on a winding mountain road with a 40 MPH speed limit and we were traveling 2-3 MPH faster and still barely safely than this in our motorhome. There were no safe pullouts and no road shoulders. An impatient pickup soon pulled up behind, tailgating us. The pickup (male) driver soon passed us crossing double yellow lines, gave use a certain finger as he passed us, and quickly pulled away obviously going way faster than 40 MPH.
The above baloney stuff goes on all the time. Something is out of whack on this county's roadways. When is it going to end? For Pete's Sack ... IMHO millions of drivers need to slow down and smell either the roses or the fuel fumes!
as the saying goes with law enforcement, "9 you're fine...10 you're mine".Old-Biscuit wrote:
'Hero' :H
Trooper did his Job ---enforcing a Law that has been on the books since 2015
Glad lady got caught and citation issued.
But the 'Hero' part is a bit too much
Hero?? I don't get it either.IBcarguy wrote:
Old-Biscuit wrote:
'Hero' :H
Trooper did his Job ---enforcing a Law that has been on the books since 2015
Glad lady got caught and citation issued.
But the 'Hero' part is a bit too much
Hero?? I don't get it either.
The hero title is way overused to the point it is meaningless and just another word.
Most (not all) true Heroes are dead because they gave their life for others.- The laws in most states specify that the left lane is for passing, the right lane is to be used unless passing.
Any vehicle driving in the left lane at any speed under any speed limit, with open pavement ahead and one or more vehicles in close order behind, is obligated to pull over into the right lane and let the left lane traffic go. Period. End of story.
Unless you are a LEO, you have NO authority to enforce the speed limit. Attempting to do so is how we get road rage incidents. - How is driving the speed limit considered enforcing it?
Why is everyone in such a darn hurry? GordonThree wrote:
How is driving the speed limit considered enforcing it?
Ever try to get past the rolling roadblock of two side-by-side vehicles cruising down the road? What would you call it?GordonThree wrote:
Why is everyone in such a darn hurry?
Now that's a really good question for which I have no answer. If you get one, please, please, please let us all know.
