driving in left lane

[red tail]

hope they come to the villages and make a fortune in tickets!!!!!!!

From The News Service of Florida:

A massive transportation bill signed late Wednesday by Gov. Rick Scott will require slow drivers to move out of the left lane or face potential fines. The bill (HB 7125) bars left-lane drivers from going more than 10 mph below the speed limit if they know they are being overtaken from behind by faster-moving vehicles. The bill includes exceptions, such as when drivers are preparing to turn left at intersections. But a House analysis says violators of the new requirement could face $60 fines.

[JB in TV]

This would mean to get a ticket in the Villages on Morse, or BV (as an example), one would have to be going less than 25 mph in the left lane...I really doubt that happens very often. I'm willing to guess that the folks that complain about slow drivers in the left lane are referring to those driving 35mph...which is the speed limit.

[Villages PL]

hope they come to the villages and make a fortune in tickets!!!!!!!

From The News Service of Florida:

A massive transportation bill signed late Wednesday by Gov. Rick Scott will require slow drivers to move out of the left lane or face potential fines. The bill (HB 7125) bars left-lane drivers from going more than 10 mph below the speed limit if they know they are being overtaken from behind by faster-moving vehicles. The bill includes exceptions, such as when drivers are preparing to turn left at intersections. But a House analysis says violators of the new requirement could face $60 fines.

There have been times when I was in the left lane on 466 and I could see someone speeding up behind me (as though they were going to teach me a lesson or something). And I hadn't turned on my signal yet because I wasn't near enough to the turn. So, of course, when I see them speeding up behind me, I turn on my directional signal. When they see my signal, they go around me, which they could have done in the first place. But I can see by the way they speed up behind me that they have an attitude (especially bullies in large vehicles).

This new law may be bad for people who are new to certain areas and looking for a street. It happened to me in Tampa once. I knew I would have to turn left somewhere within the next 3 blocks but with all the traffic, I wouldn't be able to merge from from the center lane fast enough. By the time I would see the street sign, it would be too late to get into the turn lane. So this could be a problem for some people in unfamiliar places when driving in heavy traffic.

The question is: Who's need is greater? The person who's trying to find his next turn or the other guy who's trying to get somewhere one or two minutes faster?

[Shimpy]

This would mean to get a ticket in the Villages on Morse, or BV (as an example), one would have to be going less than 25 mph in the left lane...I really doubt that happens very often. I'm willing to guess that the folks that complain about slow drivers in the left lane are referring to those driving 35mph...which is the speed limit.

I doubt that in TV that it would apply much. Otherwise, rules of the road in most states are to "keep right except to pass". The left lane is for overtaking and passing and it is not up to the driver to take the law into his own hands and try to enforce the speed of other drivers on his own by blocking the passing lane.
Nothing causes more road rage than a driver on interstate highways cruising with his cruise control on at a speed about 1/5th mph faster than another driver in the right lane and taking 8 miles to pass blocking the lane.
If you're not passing, keep right and and don't worry about what other drivers are doing.

[DonH57]

I would think the main purpose of this bill would serve the interstate and other major highways.

[ilovetv]

I too think this is for interstate and turnpike types of roadways. 466 here in TV is a good example of where both lanes are needed to handle the volume of traffic and not have the left lane "only for passing".

When both lanes are full of vehicles bumper to bumper, it's nonsense to think that the left lane is only for passing!

[billethkid]

of course it is mainly for interstate and other long distance travel highways.

The law will have little effect on how people drive.....just look at how speed limit laws are completely ignored.

btk