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dough@netcom.com (doug h.) wrote:
>In article <33492e28.67872711@news.tamu.edu>, Marc <Gumby@tamu.edu> wrote:

>>Transportation Code 

>>Sec. 545.051.  Driving on Right Side of Roadway.

>>	(b) 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, or as close 
>>	    as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge 
>>	    of the roadway, unless the operator is:

>But speeding traffic can't be considered to be "normal" in the eyes
>of the law, because it is illegal.  It would be contradictory for
>the law to consider speeding traffic to be "normal" (implying legal)
>in one context, and illegal in another.

>I called the chief of traffic enforcement in Austin, and he said
>that the above law does not apply with regards to speeding traffic.

With all due disrespect, law enforcers are not lawyers.  Just because
they don't feel like enforcing a law doesn't mean that something isn't
illegal.  The lawyers (you know, the people that actually *do* know
the law) I have talked to have said that it would apply.

What was the name of the person you talked to, and how could I reach
him?

If you have a legal refrence that explains that "normal" and "illegal"
are mutually exclusive, I'd be happy to examine it and admit my error.
However, you'll notice the wording of the law "normal vehicles of the
other vehicles at the time and place" isn't is any way excluding the
ones that are traveling faster than the posted maximum.

Marc