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Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)

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From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:00
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In <366e4d69.44443309@news.powersurfr.com> grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon
Sommerville) writes:

>I came across what I would consider an ideal driving situation that
>would probably upset you to no end if you saw it in the real world.
>It was a four lane divided highway, with a stream of cars in the right
>lane.  Periodically one of these cars would pull out and pass the
>vehicle in front of it then promptly move back to the right lane.  The
>left lane was empty except for these passing vehicles.  Exactly the
>way it should have been.

What a waste of tax dollars:  Leave a lane idle most of the time, thus
essentially cutting down highway capacity to 50%.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>
a2i communications, a quality ISP
    "Any idiot can avoid automobile accidents that are his own fault.  It
     takes skill to avoid accidents that are the *other* person's fault."
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From: c.c.eiftj@22.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
Date: 1998/12/08
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