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They call it the fast lane and think you can just drive in it as long as you are "going fast".
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>>28977877
Guess what? I don't care.
>>28977892
Mass culling of population.
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We have 3 groups of people in particular that I think make up the majority of left lane campers
Imports who literally don't know the traffic laws and don't even have licenses
Old people whose brains are so deteriorated that they can't even do anything other than drive in a straight line and they can barely do that
Prescription medication guinea pigs so hopped up on uppers and downers that they forget about the existence of anything not directly in front of them
Once anyone from these groups gets in to the left lane then they just live there
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>>28977931
What's wrong with going the speed limit though? Why are the police making public service announcements telling the public to help enable lawlessness?
If the speed limit is too low, it should be increased. But it's not too low. In many cases it is too high.
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Lane discipline increases throughput.
Obsessing about speed limits is for people who can’t understand that there exist other rules. If people filtered by lane we wouldn’t have as much congestion in the first place. A million cars right next to each other at random speeds in random lanes is more likely to cause accidents than speeding with a car here or there.
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>>28978036
If you read that anon's post, you can see that he's not talking about the big freeways. He's talking about two lane highways. You were so excited to use your ebbin joke.
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>>28978042
yeah but i posted the funny picture
also that's literally how two lane highways become big freeways, it's the point of a meme. you start with a slightly overcongested highway, add in some sprawl and incompetent urban planning, and you end up with 10 lane monstrosities a couple of decades later
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>>28978047
It's a tough situation though, and sometimes it's kind of the inverse, it's traffic between two ends of the highway rather than development along it that's the big problem. That's the case here in Central Oregon, where you've got Bend and Redmond ~20mi apart, Bend has most of the jobs but has become a major retirement and work from home destination, which has driven housing prices up to the point that people who actually work locally have to live in Redmond and make the commute every day, and the 2-lane (each way) rural highway, US-97, is really struggling under the pressure, especially because it isn't a limited access freeway, it's lined with small farms and rural businesses (tractor dealers, construction companies, etc.) that have driveways straight onto the highway, and you're basically forced to drive in the left lane to avoid the danger of people suddenly pulling onto the highway or slamming on their brakes to turn off. I think it's eventually going to have to get expanded into a real freeway or they'll have to build a separate one somewhere nearby, since the region has skyrocketed in population and it's getting increasingly hard to deal with no having one.
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>>28977927
i do the same thing. i drive an 18 wheeler, and i make sure to stay in the left hand lane whenever possible and drive the speed limit, preferably when a car is to my right also driving the speed limit. you WILL drive the speed limit while i am on the road, and the highways are safer for it. you can honk, flash your lights, and tailgate all you want, but you are going to comply with safe driving guidelines and laws. you might be angry now, but you can thank me later when you realize how much i'm helping this country's roadways and travel corridors in the long run.
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>>28978355
Socal in particular has some really unhinged driving habits.
One I've noticed is that people will preferentially pass on the right. They'll straight up ignore an empty left lane to pull some sketchy bullshit in the far right lane. As a result you often get the situation on LA freeways where the right lane is moving faster than any of the others.
Another is the insane number of people who absolutely refuse to accelerate past 30mph while within an onramp and will instead cause the whole right lane to slam on their brakes as they pull in. This obviously causes havoc when combined with the first issue.
I've discovered some new ones since moving to Oregon. My latest fresh hell is people who go 80 in the left lane when nobody is in the right lane but slow to about 1mph faster than right lane traffic whenever they're passing. I had two separate cars in a row do that to me in one commute last week.
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>>28978036
It's almost like adding lanes is a temporary fix that will never be able to solve the problem of finite road space vs infinite population growth. There is literally no permanent solution except population reduction. As long as millions of new drivers are being added each year, congestion is inevitable.
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