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Originally Posted by redwitch
"FS 316.084 – When Overtaking and Passing on the Right is Permitted
(1) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass on the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions:
(a) When the vehicle overtaken is making or is about to make a left turn;
(b) Upon a street or highway with unobstructed pavement not occupied by parked vehicles of sufficient width for two or more lines of moving traffic in each direction;
(c) Upon a one-way street, or upon a roadway on which traffic is restricted to one direction of movement, where the roadway is free from obstructions and of sufficient width for two or more lines of moving vehicles.
(2) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle on the right only under conditions permitting such movement in safety. In no event shall such movement be made by driving off the pavement or main-traveled portion of the roadway."
So, yes, it is legal. As to what's the rush, you'd have to ask the other driver. I've had to slam on my brakes in my golf cart to keep from hitting a car using the Morse multi-modal path to pass someone turning left. I've also been passed on the right when turning left onto my street. It's scary and stupid. Some people just have no common sense.
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The Original post to this thread by Logdog's description tells that he was stopped behind another car that was turning left. He himself was not turning left but was going to proceed straight ahead. Redwitch posted Florida Law in the second posting here. Section (1)(a) clearly states that passing on the right is permitted "When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn." Logdog was not turning left. Im sure he did not have his left signal on either. Therefore, the vehicles that did the passing on the right were in violation
because Logdog was not intending to turn left. Remember that Logdog was going to go straight ahead.
Additionally, Section (2) reads in part, ...In no event shall such movement be made by driving off the pavement OR
MAIN-TRAVELED PORTION OF THE ROADWAY. The "main-traveled portion of the roadway" is defined as that area where vehicles usually and normally travel. The 'golf cart lane' is not the Main-Traveled Portion for cars.
Regardless the reason that traffic ahead is stopped in the lane, you cannot drive out of your lane to the right onto the Golf Cart Lane to pass on the right. This area is not the Main Traveled Portion of the roadway.