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Article #1582Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving
From: Steven Fisher
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:00
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>A very large problem with trying to implement this (at least in >Seattle) is that on-ramps often don't provide enough length for the >average car to accelerate to the posted speed limit, let alone a >higher speed. They offer PLENTY of space, people just don't know how to drive their cars. If my ancient 75 horsepower VW could do it, any car made today can (and 99.99% of those previously made). >Merging in Seattle is ridiculous. People try to merge into 60 mph >traffic at 40mph. The commuter lane (carpool) is often on the right, >too. Since traffic tends to move faster in the carpool lane, people >have to merge across high-speed traffic into stopped non-carpool >lanes. Gee, why would that cause a problem? People either go real fast, or real slow in carpool lanes. A lot of people think that if they have 2 or more people, they *have* to be in it -- even if they're going well under the speed limit in a left-lane carpool lane.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb1cb,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cb,public X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: f4d80,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public From: "Steven Fisher" <srf@srf.com> Subject: Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving Date: 1998/06/30 Message-ID: <6nbfdl$nd4@news.microsoft.com> X-Deja-AN: 367519706 References: <35941A85.7310@erols.com> <35952cff.791952@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <3595D2FF.1DB5@richmond.infi.net> <3597b3b3.59252089@news.pipeline.com> <359697bc.5194531@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <3596CDB1.A763DD30@prodigy.net.nospam> <3596d524.20916793@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <359a9d1f.14357397@news.pipeline.com> <3599288e.5923998@news1.brigadoon.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: Microsoft Corp. Newsgroups: dc.driving,rec.autos.driving,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,seattle.general,ca.driving