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

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From: Brandon Sommerville
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:00

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Rahul Dhesi wrote:

>I would like us to find a good definition of 'good lane discipline'.  I
>have seen this defined in many ways, but the loudest people on Usenet
>seem to define it as 'everybody else keep right so I can have a lane to
>myself'.  They want everybody else out of the left lane so they can have
>it all to themselves.  In other words, they expect a highway lane
>constructed at a cost of a few million dollars an inch to be left nearly
>idle.  Except for their own vehicle, of course.  Makes no sense to me.
>You would end up with say three lanes but only enough capacity to move
>two lanes of traffic.  Result?  More traffic james and a long painful
>drive.  Fill all available lanes, and you get much more capacity and you
>use tax dollars more efficiently.

The people clamoring for this are also usually the first ones to yield
that lane if someone faster comes up behind them.  That sort of
destroys the idea that they want the lane all to themselves.
-- 
Brandon

"Spoooooooon!"

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From: grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon Sommerville)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
Date: 1998/12/09
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