On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:33:56 GMT, "Frank F. Matthews"
wrote:
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>
>Binyamin Dissen wrote:
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>> On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:02:44 GMT Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
>>
>> :>What I read between the lines here is either "My time is more important
>> :>than yours" or "I enjoy going fast and anyone who tries to slow me down
>> :>is an a*****e".
>>
>> Yet Doug Smith W9WI wrote in message <433FEA50.10906@invalid.invalid>
>>
>> "Because once too often, when I've needed to use the passing lane to get
>> around a slow vehicle or merging traffic, that passing lane has been
>> occupied by a high-speed pack."
>>
>> Seems like we have a full fledged hypocrite here.
>
>No it is an explanation on why he is not willing to pop into the slow
>lane for a moment only to get trapped there when a mass of overtaking
>traffic will not let him back. If he is driving so as to regularly pass
>vehicles in the next lane there is no reason to move over and get
>trapped there.
This is one of my biggest complaints about the two-lane I-5 in
California from the G.vine to the Bay Area. The truck traffic
is huge, and state law restricts them to 55 mph and the right
lane except when passing. This means that all passenger car
traffic uses the "fast lane" at about 80 mph, and if you get
stuck behind one of those 55 mph trucks in the "slow lane" you
may have to spend a long time there before you can break free.
Also bad: if one of the trucks decides to pass another it will
move out into the "fast lane" at 55 mph, and speed up very little
to effect the pass. This results in both lanes being reduced to
55 mph or so, and passengers cars become very backed up. It can
be most frustrating, especially if your passing by that cattle
feed lot.
That highway is in sore need of a third lane each way.
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