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"Ken M." <poboxdc@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> Rural Lawmaker Wants to End Life in Virginia's Fastest Lanes
>
> By Lisa Rein
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Sunday, February 11, 2001; Page C01
>
> RICHMOND -- Rural lawmakers incensed by slowpokes who swoop
> to the left side of a highway and refuse to budge have pushed a
> bill through the Virginia House of Delegates that would resolve
> once and for all who owns the fast lane.
>
> If the bill becomes law, drivers could not merely motor in the
> left lane. They would have to use it for passing only.

Some ass of a "legislator" brings up a version of this even session or so.
It will not pass; it is DOA.

The reason is that it addesses a non-existing problem.   The problem isn't
that the left lane is held up for less than a minute; the problem is that
there are asses that think that just because they want to go faster than the
speed limit everyone else should get the hell out of their way!

I am pleased to see that this time the ass pushing the bill is a democrat.


>
> "People can't get by. They blow their horns. They blink their
> lights. They take chances," said Del. Joseph P. Johnson Jr.
> (D-Washington), the bill's co-sponsor and a self-described
> country lawyer from the town of Abingdon, pop. 7,400, 14 miles
> from the Tennessee line. "It creates what we refer to as driver
> rage."
>

Why doesn't that asshole "country lawyer" push a law increasing the speed
limit?   The rage comes from drivers that are trying to go faster than the
speed limit.   I would enjoy looking at the driving record of this bunkin
lawyer.


> Did he say rage? Try telling commuters in Northern Virginia
> they could soon be denied the right to travel millions of
> precious cubic feet of asphalt on their slow crawl to the office
> and some road rage will follow.

At last some common sense!

>
> "That sounds pretty crazy," said William Weaver, as he pumped
> gas at a station off Interstate 66. Weaver knows from traffic
> on his daily journey from Capitol Hill to his Tysons Corner
> car dealership. "Don't they know the passing lane is an available
> lane for drivers?"

What, more common sense from the Washington P**?   Someone check to see if
Hell has frozen over.

>
> In the Old Dominion, where the 1,118 miles of interstate
> highways connect suburbs, with their daily horror stories of
> traffic congestion, to sleepy regions dotted with dairy farms,
> one man's quest for driver courtesy is another man's lifeline
> to sheer survival.


>
> Rural drivers may say they have nowhere to go behind a dawdler
> hogging the left-hand lane on a four-lane highway.

Huh?   "Rural drivers" lose a lot more time being stuck behind farm
machinery on country roads.   If someone is going the speed limit (or even a
few MPH faster) he just doesn't get held up by a "left land hog" more than a
fraction of a minute!