Ga Slow Poking Bill

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WSIA had a report, as did the Chattanoogan, and Atlanta Consitution, at different times, reports, on a Bill on the way to the Governor, to be signed.
it would fine Lingerers, in the left lane up to 1,000.00, for failing to move to the right or impeding traffic, in the left lanes.
The LEOs would have to witness it.
Awareness of the Law might persuade those, including Truckers, obstructing traffic to get in and stay in the right lanes. Some Interstates or all of them regardless, of the number, of lanes, they cause numerous accidents and near accidents and back up traffic for miles and cause the wast of millions of gallons of fuel and hot tempers. Prime examples are Interstates I75 and I24 north, of the Ga border. the Law won't affect there though.
Everyone is familiar with the Atlanta mess too.

[96Bounder30E]

Closed!

Too many insults.......

[westend]

SRT wrote:
Here in Minnesota we have people that travel for miles and miles in the left lane when there isn't any vehicles in the right lane. The MNDot did install signs "....to keep right" but for some stupid reason they are on the right side of the freeway.

That's just to let folks know that in MN the passing lane is actually the right lane. :B

[Javi1]

Dave H M wrote:
looks like Javi1 is on the verge of getting together a left lane police crowd. :h

Glad to see some folks are taking a common sense approach to tying up traffic by tooting along in the left lane.

Not at all, I too dislike being stuck behind slower drivers who refuse to move over and let others by. However, all too many times the very people who are most vocal about the left lane are those who have no regard for the speed laws. I travel I-35 frequently for both business and pleasure and the number of people exceeding the posted speed is astronomical. Weaving in and out of traffic, passing on the right shoulder all occur and everyone of the folks doing it are fussing about folks not getting out of their way.

Yes I have personal vendetta against speeders, I lost my oldest daughter and grandson to just such a person.

[Dave_H_M]

looks like Javi1 is on the verge of getting together a left lane police crowd. :h

Glad to see some folks are taking a common sense approach to tying up traffic by tooting along in the left lane.

[Tom_Dee]

A 'Keep Right Law' is a law intended to help keep traffic flowing better and not bunch up where road rage and tailgating and passing on the right occurs. When you have someone blocking faster traffic (legal speed or not) then drivers start to get angry and become more aggressive. Also by keeping the left lane more open you have a lane that can and will be used for law enforcement, ambulances,and fire departments to use when needed.

[SpoiledRotten]

3oaks wrote:
From what I have seen, all that law does is keep the left lane clear for people who think they are above the law and drive way over the posted speed limit.

Javi1, you posted while I was still typing. We have the same opinion.

I don't see it that way at all. There are those that think no one else is in the roadway but them, so if they are going 5 - 10 MPH BELOW the speed limit, they don't care. Many times the person in the far right lane is going that much slower, which in my opinion, is fine since they are in the "slow" lane, but if those that want to go the same speed as the slow guy stays in the "passing/overtaking" lane, then you have a problem.

I don't see it as above the law at all. I see it as mandatory road etiquette since some don't have enough sense to move out of the way of others while they are smoking, texting, sightseeing from the fast lane.

Ticks me off when someone sightseeing appoints themselves to be the pace car for everyone else on the road.

Besided, you have no idea what reason the person traveling fast has. He might be trying to get to the bedside of his dying loved one, or to get his child to the healthcare facility before they pass into a critical state. You never know so just to be a decent person, move over and travel as slow as you want or can get by with. I never get upset at anyone traveling very slow in the right lane. It's the others that "own the road".

[Bumpyroad]

one stretch of I-59 in alabama has such a bad right lane that I try to drive as much as possible in the left. I do pull over when I see a vehicle coming up on me however.
bumpy

[Peg_Leg]

I think in large metro areas they should put thru traffic in the left lane. This way they won't interfere with entering and exiting traffic. Some one always seems to be in the left lanes trying to get around a couple of more vehicles. Then they dive for the exit causing everyone to get on the brakes which then dominoes.

I remember following a couple of side by sides across I-10 in Louisiana for over 10 miles. Finally a cop sped through a rest area to get ahead of them instead of pulling one of them over. Talk about ticked, what are the chances of me getting a ticket for doing that? I cancelled spending my money in their state.

[D_E_Bishop]

I may be wrong (although I seldom am) but don't all states have "impeding traffic" laws?

I know I should never say "never or always" but that is almost as basic as which side of the road to drive on.

[Javi1]

bid_time wrote:

Javi1 wrote:
I find that most folks who fuss about the "SLOW GUY" in the left lane and/or lobby for a law to make them move over are in fact speeders who choose not to obey the law themselves... irony ain't it

Here's an irony for you - what difference does it make to you how fast the guy in the left lane is going, if you're obeying the law in the right lane while not passing anyone? What happens 99% percent of the time is two guy traveling below the speed limit lined up in both lanes right beside each other, both traveling the same 10mph or more below the limit speed, no one passing no one; and no one can get around them. Happens very day on my way to work.

Leave earlier..

Having a law to clear the lane so you can break a law is more than a little stupid.

[SRT]

Here in Minnesota we have people that travel for miles and miles in the left lane when there isn't any vehicles in the right lane. The MNDot did install signs "....to keep right" but for some stupid reason they are on the right side of the freeway.

[rhagfo]

Well I almost got a ticket years ago in Washington, driving I90 westbound out of Spokane I think near Sprague, traffic was extremely light. In this section the right lane was pretty rough so with curse set at 70 in a 65 zone I was traveling happily in the smooth left lane no one near me.
I see two WSP (Washington State Patrol)cars sitting under an overpass. Didn't bother to release the cruse, 5 over no biggie. As I pass one pulls out and lights me up, when the officer approached and asked the normal question "Do you know why I pulled you over?"
My response was well I was 5 over, but figured you wouldn't bother. His response, well yes you were going a little fast, but I pulled you over for traveling in the left lane while not passing!!
The law was about three years old at the time. :S
He did let me off with a warning, I just shook my head.

[pitch]

Not if no one is behind me.
This law would almost never affect me as I avoid interstates as much as practical, and I am usually at the speed limit or slightly below.

[JJBIRISH]

well it seems like they want to apply commonsense to their law, and require you to travel at the speed limit in the far left lane, and not be dictated to by those rhinestone cowboys who chose to drive above the maximum speed limit claiming a new maximum speed for the day…
they call it the prevailing rate, which is a dressed up name for speeding in groups… them claiming to be the deciders of fact… ( if they go 90 and you’re in front of us and refuse to go ninety, you are the unsafe impleader deserving a ticket… even though you are driving at the posted maximum safe speed…