Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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My guess is that the law will have similar wording to that of other states, Ohio for example. Motorists may not drive in the left or passing lane for longer than two miles, or some such reasonable distance. They aren't going to tag you for making a legal left hand turn.
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Never convicted of it though. Judge dismissed for extenuiting circumstances. I fell asleep!
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I'm sorry this is something I have never been able to wrap my head around. If I am maintaining the posted legal speed limit and in the left lane why does someone need to pass me... unless of course they are exceeding the posted legal speed limit. How will the state troopers keep up with how many miles an individual has traveled in the left lane?
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A trooper will simply follow a car driving in the left lane. If the driver exceeds the legal distance, they get a ticket. |
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BTW, on a crowded highway with bumper to bumper in both lanes at near speed limit will be difficult to enforce. RV's are sometime as guilty as truckers for hogging the passing lane. They are not governed but get out there with the big boys then get timid and or reach an upgrade and can't complete the pass. |
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I would hope that my soon to be tax dollars could be better spent getting drug dealers and child molesters off the street rather than giving a ticket because someone might be holding up speeders. |
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Impeding the flow of traffic by staying in the left lane, even if driving at the speed limit, is also a hazard because it can delay emergency response vehicles; and there are situations, such as some medical emergencies, where even an ordinary citizen has no reasonable alternative but to speed, and is legally excused, by the doctrine of necessity, from observing the speed limit as long as they are not recklessly endangering other vehicles; and they need to be able to pass in the left lane traffic that is in the right lane, even if it is moving at the speed limit. That is another reason why the left lane is a passing lane; not a lane for continued driving.
I'll confess though that there was a time in my earlier days when I didn't realize, or at least if I did I didn't always observe, these rules (i.e., that I shouldn't keep driving in the left lane; and that being in that final stretch to get home at the end of a road trip, or not wanting to be discourteous by keeping my girls'-night-out friends waiting, did not, unfortunately for me, rise to the level of urgency that, to an officer's mind, warranted speeding, despite their politely professed empathy for my misjudgment). So, those couple of times in my life I did later wish that someone driving at the speed limit had impeded me in the left lane, and from those regrets I reformed and began reserving that lane only for passing.
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It made about as much sense as "You people only gave me a ticket because I have a Lamborghini (or Ferrari)." They somehow always managed to tell me how much it cost... and what important person they knew. The concept that they should just follow the rules never came into play. Last edited by Walt.; 04-07-2011 at 01:02 AM. Reason: typo |
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Just Great.... In New Jersey there is no such thing as a right lane.Look out!
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I set my cruise control at about 5 mph over the speed limit, stay in the right lane unless passing, and will consistently come up behind drivers in the left lane at or below the speed limit. Unless I hit the brake and hold up, or pass them on the right if other cars allow, which is another dangerous practice, they are holding up traffic flow. How many times do you see a car in the left lane that refuses to move over and several cars will be forced to pass them on the right? Now we need a law to solve gap control at red lights. People stop at a red light, then do there nail clipping or read there e-mail or some other dumb activity so that when the light changes they allow the car in front of them to get 10 car lengths ahead before they react. If everyone maintained gap control and allowed the maximum number of cars through the light, we would save billions of gallons of fuel every year.
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I don't believe there was one. I have never seen a sign in Fla. as in other states that says right lane for passing only.
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There is a phenomenon called "traffic shock wave." Let's say you have two cars side by side, each traveling at exactly the same speed (in this example 55 MPH). The two cars behind them cannot travel exactly the same speed, they must move at a speed slightly slower. So then, the next cars in line then must each slow even slower. Once you get to the 50th car, they are dramatically slower. 200th car....stopped.
Ever been in a long stand still on an interstate and after creeping for an hour, the traffic clears and there has been no accident to see? That is likely traffic shock wave. Somebody got into the left lane and drove exactly the same speed as the person in the right lane and bollixed up traffic for miles behind. Hooray for the new law. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M[/ame] JLK |
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Sorry. My bad. I meant left lane for passing only. Or keep right or whatever. No signs.
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It's good to see the law, but I'm with Red ... the laws that exist in other states have had zero effect in eliminating or even minimizing this problem. I see no difference in left lane hoggers in Florida than I did in NJ or NY. The only time I saw something like this work was in the UK (of course there it was the right lane that was reserved for passing).
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Illinois passed a similar law a few years ago.... Something like the 2 mile rule, without passing. In Illinois, State Troopers are the worst offenders of the law. You will NEVER see an Illinois State Trooper in the right lane...ever!
Just moved back from Germany, where it's illegal to pass on the right. Left lane cruisers are minimized, but not totally eliminated... but, most folks in the left lanes are traveling in excess of 90mph. I made it 2 months, in the US, before I got my first speeding ticket... I sure do miss the autobahn.... |
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