Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: 55 and speeding Message-ID: <674@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Jun-83 05:44:38 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.674 Posted: Sat Jun 18 05:44:38 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jun-83 19:44:43 EDT Lines: 25 Having gotten shafted by exit only lanes too many times, I have some sympathy for people who are "afraid of highway exits". I will sometimes move out of the right lane (if I'm going 55) if I see a right-hand exit-only lane and I don't want to exit, or if I see a left-hand exit land and do want to exit. Not every driver out there recognizes that you're forced to a lane further to the left due to these circumstances... Also, people who come up on your tail if you're in the left-hand lane and: 1) The lanes to the right of you are going 50 in a 55 MPH zone 2) The lane you're in is going 55-60 3) They want to go 65-70 annoy me; I'm damned if I'm going to move over just to give them a chance to harrass the person in front of me. Can't they see that prevailing traffic isn't going as fast as they want to and just slow down? Of course, on the other hand I completely agree with you about people persistently going UNDER the speed limit; a local road here is clearly marked 55 MPH but people PERSIST in going 45 MPH, even when the road is clear! At those times I wish I was driving a turbocharged bulldozer... Guy Harris RLG Corporation {seismo,mcnc,we13,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!guy