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From: tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com
On 2014-03-12, Your Name wrote:
> In article , Brent
> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-03-11, Your Name wrote:
>> > In article , Brent
>> >>
>> >> Seems in your opinion dangerous is going faster than you.
>> >
>> > Speed limit signs are not a "target" to get to nor a exact figure you
>> > must drive at. The signs are advising the MAXIMUM speed in IDEAL
>> > CONDITIONS, but various factors means driving slower than that may
>> > indeed be safer.
>>
>> LOL! Speed limits on limited access highways are largely determined by
>> social/political opinion and revenue desires.
>>
>> For instance, I-294 in Illinois is posted at 55mph. In good weather at
>> the right time of day in appropiate sections in capable car I estimate
>> that the maximum safe speed is somewhere around 120mph or more.
>
> As with the idiot whinign about Stop signs, there wil be a reason for
> that speed limit ... whether you understand that reason or not is
> complete ly irrelevant.
The reason is called politics and revenue.
Meanwhile ISP troopers do a 120mph without issue.
>> >> >> When 55mph was imposed Claybrook stated it
>> >> >> was safer to force faster drivers to slow down and weave through
>> >> >> blockages of slow drivers who can't be bothered to keep right except
to
>> >> >> pass.
>> >>
>> >> > Experience shows it is the idiots described above who can't be bothered
>> >> > to keep right. They stay firmly implanted in the left lane, expecting
>> >> > every other drive on the fucking planet to get out of their way,
>> >> > regardless of posted speed limits or safety implications.
>> >>
>> >> Wasn't it you that was complaining earlier they passed on the right?
>>
>> >> Anyway, keep right except to pass. You shouldn't have to get out of
>> >> their way because you shouldn't have been in their way in the first
>> >> place.
>>
>> > In some places it's necessary to be in the "wrong" lane because that's
>> > the one you need for the exit or continuation of your journey. Trying
>> > to shove your way into the lane at the last minute is stupid.
>>
>> Special cases are few and far between, a tiny tiny fraction of the miles
>> of highway.
> I said "some places". There's also a variety of other reasons for
> perhaps not moving over to the "slower" lanes ... including all the
> impatient morons zooming up behind you, changing lanes and passing you
> on the "wrong side".
If you're being passed on the right, 99% of the time it's because you
are in the wrong lane.
> It's like the idiots who write in to the newspaper here in New Zealand.
> They whine on about how "slow" drivers are blocking them on the winding
> country road, and when they get to a strecth of road which has an extr
> a"passing lane", the "slow" drivers speed up ... well, duh! The passing
> lanes are in places where it's safe to put them and means the road is
> wider, so that means it's safer to go faster.
Asshats like to be in front and simply don't want to be passed.
> Of course what these morons never understand is that even thought they
> zoom past and think they're so clever, the "slow" driver often passes
> them at the next traffic lights, or when speedy has stoppped at the
> petrol station, etc. Speeding doesn't achieve anything, except prove
> how idiotically stupid and juvenille you are.
The light they would have hit on a green cycle if they hadn't been
slowed in the first place. But your slow-is-safe drivers pass me when I
am bicycling, usually just yards sometimes feet from a red signal. Then
when it turns green they can't accelerate as fast as I want to go.
Remember, I am using a bicycle.
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