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Rahul Dhesi wrote:

> In <35A30653.5C710815@prodigy.net.nospam> Tony Wang
> <tonyw44@prodigy.net.nospam> writes:
>
> >Plus, last time I checked, the interstates in San Diego and Los Angeles all
> >had multiple lanes -- as in more than two.  Come to think of it, the ones I
> >drove on had like four or five.
>
> >So you mean to tell me that you can't leave that left lane alone except for
> >passing?  Bull.
>
> It would mean packing the vehicles in the remaining lanes even closer
> together.  Even with all lanes in use, following distances are short and
> unsafe.  It doesn't make sense to make them even shorter and less safe.
>
> Leaving one lane essentially idle is stupid in any case -- a waste of a
> construction cost of a few million dollars per mile of highway.
>
> I stand by my claim that the following assumptions are not true in
> most urban parts of California:
>
> 1.  There is sufficient room on the highway to hold all vehicles at safe
>     following distances while still leaving the leftmost lane nearly empty.
> 2.  Repeated lane changes do not increase the chances of an accident.
> 3.  Highway onramps are long enough to let merging traffic easily
>     accelerate to highway speed before it gets on the highway, thus
>     allowing normal highway traffic to safely drive at a steady highway
>     speed in the rightmost lane.

That's funny because I've found more space on the right lanes than the left.  In
all cases, they could have SIMPLY moved to the RIGHT!

There is something wrong with the way people drive in California.  I'm an Orange
County resident which is between L.A. and San Diego and there are four to
six-lane highways.

And we have the best highway ramps - very long.  Problem is the stoplights on
ramps.  I have to go down to 0 mph then when I get the green light to proceed
onto the freeway, I have so little space to accelerate to 75.  (75 is the
average speed around here).

Richard