It's The Law
 

Stay right


Obeying this law will help to reduce road rage by being considerate and moving over to the right to let faster traffic by.
Below is a brief excerpt of the law along with the link:
316.081 Driving on right side of roadway; exceptions.—
(1) Upon all roadways of sufficient width, a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows:
(a) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction under the rules governing such movement;
(b) When an obstruction exists making it necessary to drive to the left of the center of the highway;
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Remember drive right, unless passing.

You also have to move to the left, if safe, when there's an emergency vehicle or police pulled over to the side of the road or for sanitation vehicles and some other thing. If you can't move to the left (if no one will allow you to get in the other lane) then you have to slow down so you're going 20mph slower than the posted speed limit. That's a fairly new law.

Obeying the speed limit would help also.

Good luck.
As effective as stop and speed signs in TV (or anywhere else).

This is also good advice for bicyclists. Riding in the middle of a lane increases the danger of a texter turning you into road kill. Save your life, stay to the right, and of course always wear a helmet.

Thank you.

Translation: If you are one of the clowns that insist on driving 30 in a 45 zone,--get the heck out of the left lane!!!!!

i always move to the left lane when approaching a local roundabout -- sometimes way ahead if there's traffic. does the law address that?

Hopefully not if you're taking the first exit:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Come to think of it, why????? (unless you're going to the 3rd exit). IMHO, the inner lane is more dangerous when going straight, since some bozo entering (illegally) from the first exit will cut right in front of you.

Laws,Rules,Civility towards others ...The villages :1rotfl::1rotfl:

I admit it. I drive slower than most, BUT, I always stay in the right lane. If I pass a car going slower than me, I put the pedal to the medal and get back in the right lane.

IMHO if older drivers just left more distance between them and the vehicle in front, that would go a long way to reducing accidents.
Older, equals slower reactions.

And I think that if younger drivers would leave earlier for school/work, would not be texting while driving and would be paying more attention to the driving conditions and not frustrating because they can't get where they are going fast enough that would go a long way to reducing accidents!

Why do you limit that to younger drivers? Many people who live in the Villages and are over 55 years old work. Many of those workers drive to work. Some of those workers driving to work text and drive, and talk and drive. Every day I see people in golf carts with phones held up against their ears. I see the same of older folks in cars.

Young folks don't have the market of stupidity cornered, by any means.

I've been in the Villages for eight years and have yet to see someone driving on the wrong side of the road. Why did you feel this post is necessary?

Why? Perhaps because so many drivers in the Villages are younger than I am? Perhaps because the previous poster used the term 'older drivers'? Why do you give a flip?

Drivers going 45-50 in the left lane on Buena Vista......get no respect from me.

From me either

But drivers going 20 in the left lane get even less

Driving skills
 

I've been here four years and have found driving skills don't exist here. I was here only two weeks when I was T- Boned and rear ended because a woman decided to stop dead in the middle of the road for paper. I moved into the breakdown lane where I was hit and stopped. It seems as we get older we fail to do the simple things mentioned here in the article including putting your signal light on or not shutting it off. Find driving here like being in a demolition derby. To survive when driving you need to think stupid because that's how some drive here. Even in parking lots backing up people will walk behind you when backing up. Grrrr.:pray:

While a noble effort, good luck on getting through to those who know exactly what they're doing by running in the left lane...as it gives them a "feeling of power." :ohdear:

Are we talking about "in town" driving or on a 4 lane divided highway? How do you know somebody doesn't need to turn left in 1/2 of a mile?

I'm with you Tommy, we've had similar experiences including being re-ended at a traffic light. But it was by a young woman (late teens early twenties).

Another viewpoint
 

FYI, there are MANY people in the areas surrounding the Villages that go WAY out of their way to avoid the nightmare of driving through TV.

This worn out topic comes up every couple of months here.

The hypocrisy of the people who want to speed, pointing out the law breakers who travel in the left lane, not moving over.

And to the poster who mentioned those in the left lane possibly wanting to make a left turn in the near future, I'm sure one of the many experts here will weigh in and give you their sage advice.

I actually got a ticket for this even though I did move left. The officer said I should have slowed down too. I considered fighting it but decided to pay it and do the online course to avoid the points. At any rate, I now move left AND slow down to avoid any more issues with officers having a bad day.

I noticed d (3) not listed which basically says if not impeding traffic you don’t have get out of the left lane. Right lane only NEVER going to happen why you got more than one lane cause of heavily traveled highway. You will never get ticket in the left lane UNLESS you are impeding traffic flow and odds of getting ticket slim to none. Yes, we should follow the law and move over if some own want to go faster. It’s not our job to control speed limit. Move over when faster traffic comes up behind you.

Agree, but:shocked:

So, where do you think they got their driving skills before they got here?

Some people CANT drive and never should of been giving drivers license. Just yesterday I yielded to traffic in the roundabout and car completely stopped in the roundabout with no one in front or behind them. I guess thought I had the right of way? Who knows? I honked my horn and waived them to MOVE.

If you’re not going 40 in the right lane you’re leading train. Left lane 45 is probably minimum unless LEO hiding by polo grounds. The you see the sea of brake lights pop on.

I can deal with any of that, but I sure wish turn signals would make a comeback!

Please define "many".
I hope a lot more avoid TV, cuts down on congestion...….

There are also those weird stretches of road on 441 where the right lane has a right arrow painted on it, indicating that it's a right-turn-only lane.

That's fine, but that lane is over a mile long. If you know you'll need to turn right in 3/4 of a mile, and there's traffic, is it acceptable to get into that lane immediately and continue driving in it until your turn comes? Or are you required to stay out of it until you're just a block away from the turn? Or do you have to wait until you pass the "last traffic light before the turn" before you can get into it?

I usually start looking to get into that lane as soon as I see that the traffic is starting to build up. Reason being: I don't want to be stuck in one of the other lanes and not be ABLE to pull to the right, when I need to actually take a right.

:bigbow:

Have seen two drivers on the wrong side of the road in the last year, even going around the roundabout the wrong way. Lots of people blowing horns. I was hoping they were from London and just forgot where they were.

Crabby drivers won't like either option so do what you want.

Option 1, get into the L lane early = they'll have to slow down for 10 seconds. Obviously this will make them mad. Oh the hardship!

Option 2, you wait until close to your turn, find a gap, and then wedge your car into the L lane. Obviously this will make them mad too because you again forced them to slow down and "cut them off".

So I say do it the way that works for you when you make left hand turns. Personally I like to get into the L lane early.

I say, if you want to get in the lane a half mile before you have to turn left, keep up with the flow of traffic in that lane. On roads like 466 & 466A, it's perfectly natural to use both lanes. Just don't impede the flow of traffic. You might unwittingly cause an accident.

But do you respect the law? If someone becomes a self-appointed speed monitor and enforcer (by driving 35 mph in the left lane) with other vehicles backed up behind the “slow driver” ... that behavior violates the law.

So do you have no respect for those who break any law?…or do you pick and choose among the laws that should be respected and enforced? If yes, how do you pick and choose?

Have you ever been aware of media (TV, radio, newspaper) reports about the police stopping someone who was speeding?…and when they find out the reason they were speeding (imminent birth, imminent death, something else affecting a close family member, etc.) they then provide a police escort (while breaking speed laws) to destination?

By comparison, have you ever been aware of media reports about slow drivers in a left lane who have been stopped by police…and then supported in their effort to enforce the speed law by assisting the individual to drive slow in the left lane? The reason you’ll never see/hear about that is because it doesn’t happen. Attempts to enforce speed laws by driving slowly in the left lane merely cause traffic congestion and create dangerous traffic situations by forcing other motorists to pass on the right. It’s not safe.

The question isn’t whether you respect someone who you feel violates the law, the question is whether you respect the law.

:popcorn::popcorn::shocked:

:ohdear: Ask Villagers to obey laws and rules ... how rude

I followed a Sumter County deputy from the intersection at Buena Vista and 466, all the way to the annex. I was in the right lane and he was in the left lane the entire time until he had to change lanes to turn at the annex. Heavy traffic in both lanes. He didn't seem to have a problem with the ones he was following, even when there were openings where they could have moved over. There wasn't anyone doing 30; all were doing 45+, including the deputy. NOTE: He did use his signal to change lanes!

Speed limit on BV and Morse is 35 so driving 30 is actually fairly close to the speed limit.

Drive speed limit this thread wouldn't exist... simple