Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: The right lane (an echo) Message-ID: <513@pucc-h> Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 00:48:21 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.513 Posted: Fri Feb 10 00:48:21 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 03:19:28 EST References: <332@hou5g.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 21 (** FRODO **) writes: > In case you missed a previous article, EVERYONE belongs in > the right hand lane...unless you are currently actively passing someone > else, and then you must move back over to the right as soon as it is clear! As I expressed in this group less than a month ago, if traffic is light, it doesn't make a bit of difference what lane you're in! I utterly contemn states that post KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS signs. Why can't they just be content with SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT, with which I entirely agree? The basic rule (for moderate-to-heavy traffic; again, in light traffic it doesn't matter!) emerging from all this discussion is: Travel in the lane moving at (or nearest) the speed you like to go. Obviously this has to be adjusted by circumstances (e.g. there may be no such lane, e.g. one lane @ 70 and the next @ 45 in a city, in which case I would just temporarily give myself the thrill of going 70 until I got around the 45 bunch). -- Jeff Sargent/...pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq