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

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From: Joshua_Putnam
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:00

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In <Cpd_1.75$tY2.454@news13.ispnews.com> "Instruct" <instruct@neto.com> writes:

>In the State of Texas, we have some strange laws.  Despite the normal posted
>speed limits, our Transportation Code, Chapter 545, Subchapter A, Subsection
>545.051 (b) states...

>"An operator of a vehicle on a roadway moving more slowly than the normal
>speed of other vehicles at the time and place under the existing conditions
>shall drive in the right hand lane available for vehicles...."

>Technically, you can be going the speed limit and be wrong... if you are
>impeding the flow of traffic.

That's the law in Washington, too -- a "slow moving vehicle" is
defined independently of the speed limit.

It makes some sense, too.

If all the traffic moves slower than the speed limit because of
congestion, does everyone have to pull out of the left lane?

And if most traffic is moving above the speed limit, is it safe
to have one self-righteous speed enforcer driving slow in the
left lane?  Or should speed enforcement be left to the police,
who have the proper safety flashers when they obstruct traffic?

--

 Josh@WolfeNet.com  is  Joshua Putnam / P.O. Box 13220 / Burton, WA 98013
                       "My other bike is a car."                   
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From: josh@WOLFENET.COM (Joshua_Putnam)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
Date: 1998/10/30
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