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   From: tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2014-03-12, Your Name  wrote:   
   > In article , Brent   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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   
   >> > completely irrelevant.   
   >>   
   >> The reason is called politics and revenue.   
   >> Meanwhile ISP troopers do a 120mph without issue.   
   >   
   > As I said, whether you understand that reason or not is completely   
   > irrelevant   
      
   LOL! So says someone who clearly still believes his government school   
   teachers.   
      
   >> >> >> >> 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.   
   >   
   > Nope. 99% of the time it's because some selfish dickhead believes speed   
   > limit laws don't apply to them ... and at least 75% of the time I then   
   > either pull up behind them or pass them at some point further up the   
   > road, so they acheieved absolutely nothing.   
      
   No, you're in the wrong lane.   
   The presence of other members of the anti-destination league does not   
   change that.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >> > 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.   
   >   
   > That would be the other moronic speeders.   
      
   That would make you a moronic speeder too... the other ones just go   
   faster than you, so much for 'the law' eh?   
      
   >> > 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.   
      
   > Try using your brain instead.   
      
   Well at least we settled what sort of driver you are.   
      
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