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Post by jjas on May 26, 2015 21:13:08 GMT -5
That's why I posted this....
It is now illegal to be going the speed limit and not get out of the way of someone who is breaking the law......
What's next? If I'm driving in a residential area and doing the speed limit of 30 and someone is riding my rear am I now obligated to pull over and let them pass?
Dumbest law this week from the "lawmakers" in this state...what a joke...
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Post by duff on May 26, 2015 21:14:43 GMT -5
I agree and readily get out of the way regardless of a law or not.
Just because i think it is stupid law doesn't mean i think it is ok to drive that way. I prefer fewer laws myself. Didn't realize it was an epidemic proportions that required new law to protect those habitually late folks speeding to their next appointment.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on May 26, 2015 21:15:09 GMT -5
I think that there are lots of things we need to get out of the way of because they are none of our business. You see my newest x-ray. That little pea brain has all it can handle keeping my nose clean, no room to worry about my neighbor. If I saw hunters baiting during hunting season, I wouldn't say a word. If I saw him burying a dead body, I'd call someone. If I'm going to stress enough to blow a fuse, it's probably going to be a doozy.
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Post by esshup on May 27, 2015 4:30:34 GMT -5
I spent 6 weeks in Texas this year. They have it right. I was told that no matter what the speed limit is, their law reads keep to the right except to pass. If you are in the left lane for more than 2 miles and not passing anybody, you'll get a ticket, regardless of the speed that you are going. Sure they have speed limits. BUT the keep to the right except to pass overrides the speed limit rule. So should common courtesy.
I spend a LOT of time on the road. I usually drive faster than the speed limit. I don't hang out in front of someone that wants to go faster than me, and I try to stay out of the left lane as much as possible, but I also am not going to weave thru traffic to keep going the speed that I want to go. But on the other hand, I'm not going to sit behind someone that is hanging out in the left lane going slower than I am if there's no indication that they will move over to the right lane. I'll go around them on the right.
The people out in the country in Texas are courteous. The 2-lane roads have speed limits of 75 mph that drop to 65, 60, 55, 50 even 45 as they go through the smaller towns. The roads have wide shoulders - wide enough that they are a lane all by themselves. People out in the country that aren't going as fast as the car coming up behind them will slide over onto the shoulder to let the other vehicle pass, even if it is a passing zone. The roads are kept clean so there's not a lot of crap on the shoulder.
Like I said, I spend a lot of time on the road, and usually are going 5-10 mph over the limit if I can do that without traffic getting in the way. On a long trip, 10 mph can save an hour or two of driving.
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Post by throbak on May 27, 2015 6:36:53 GMT -5
You can get one now I got one for driving too slow on 421 by JPG last year
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Post by Woody Williams on May 27, 2015 8:33:01 GMT -5
I spent 6 weeks in Texas this year. They have it right. I was told that no matter what the speed limit is, their law reads keep to the right except to pass. If you are in the left lane for more than 2 miles and not passing anybody, you'll get a ticket, regardless of the speed that you are going. Sure they have speed limits. BUT the keep to the right except to pass overrides the speed limit rule. So should common courtesy. I spend a LOT of time on the road. I usually drive faster than the speed limit. I don't hang out in front of someone that wants to go faster than me, and I try to stay out of the left lane as much as possible, but I also am not going to weave thru traffic to keep going the speed that I want to go. But on the other hand, I'm not going to sit behind someone that is hanging out in the left lane going slower than I am if there's no indication that they will move over to the right lane. I'll go around them on the right. The people out in the country in Texas are courteous. The 2-lane roads have speed limits of 75 mph that drop to 65, 60, 55, 50 even 45 as they go through the smaller towns. The roads have wide shoulders - wide enough that they are a lane all by themselves. People out in the country that aren't going as fast as the car coming up behind them will slide over onto the shoulder to let the other vehicle pass, even if it is a passing zone. The roads are kept clean so there's not a lot of crap on the shoulder. Like I said, I spend a lot of time on the road, and usually are going 5-10 mph over the limit if I can do that without traffic getting in the way. On a long trip, 10 mph can save an hour or two of driving. I noticed that when I drove through Texas a few times. Except in the big cities drivers were pretty courteous..
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on May 27, 2015 11:51:37 GMT -5
You can get one now I got one for driving too slow on 421 by JPG last year Throbak, this just not right! They can't expect a horse and wagon to go the speed limit.
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Post by chubwub on May 27, 2015 12:05:31 GMT -5
Oh this should be fun on 37 with all the construction vehicles mosying along in both lanes with police escorts going 35 mph. Didn't see any tickets written there. Was this even really a big enough issue that a law had to be written that was already in the books?
Just rename the left lane to "cops and priviliged speeders only lane" and be done with it. Are the politicians not getting enough revenue from speeding anymore because everyone knows where the speed traps are so now they have to get creative to generate new revenue?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 12:13:54 GMT -5
In essence, a driver obeying the speed limit can now be fined for failing to enable others to break the law. Just amazing.
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Post by dbd870 on May 27, 2015 13:59:39 GMT -5
In essence, a driver obeying the speed limit can now be fined for failing to enable others to break the law. Just amazing. I would like to see a law that for the next 30 years no new laws may be passed; all any politician can do is repeal any other existing law,and that does not include modifying them.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on May 27, 2015 14:02:00 GMT -5
In essence, a driver obeying the speed limit can now be fined for failing to enable others to break the law. Just amazing. I would like to see a law that for the next 30 years no new laws may be passed; all any politician can do is repeal any other existing law,and that does not include modifying them. Thirty years is a long stretch, but this is a very interesting thought. Let's start this right after they pass HPRs.
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Post by dbd870 on May 27, 2015 14:05:29 GMT -5
I would like to see a law that for the next 30 years no new laws may be passed; all any politician can do is repeal any other existing law,and that does not include modifying them. Thirty years is a long stretch, but this is a very interesting thought. Let's start this right after they pass HPRs. Long it is, but there are many years to undo
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Post by trapperdave on May 27, 2015 14:14:45 GMT -5
I always thought the left lane was for passing anyway. If youre not passing, get back over in the right lane, regardless of speed. Common courtesy that aint so common I reckon
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Post by squirrelhunter on May 27, 2015 14:34:34 GMT -5
Then they need a "speed limit" sign for the right lane and a "speed minimum" sign for the left lane or a higher "speed limit" sign for the left lane than the right lane has. Like metamora said,no on one doing the speed limit should get a ticket for doing the limit ever. If anything,ticket the speeders like they're suppose to be doing anyway,not give them permission to speed and punish the law abiders. It's not right that if you're doing 75 in a 70 mph zone and someone doing 80 comes up behind you that you get a ticket for going TOO SLOW.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 15:29:25 GMT -5
I heard on the radio yesterday about someplace that has a law where, if a new law is passed, two old laws have to be repealed. I missed where this was, but it sure sounded like a great idea to me!
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Post by firstwd on May 27, 2015 15:56:19 GMT -5
They could spend years just getting rid if antiquated laws.
Heck, I think they should throw away the entire hunting and fishing regulations code and start over writing them with simple plain language with no room for interpretation.
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Post by swilk on May 27, 2015 18:03:43 GMT -5
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Post by firstwd on May 27, 2015 18:10:34 GMT -5
Another great attempt from our news media to stir up controversy..... I mean conversation.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on May 27, 2015 19:56:38 GMT -5
Met should be in the news business. :-)
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Post by esshup on May 27, 2015 23:11:49 GMT -5
A bit of a rant here. 2 lane highway. Speed limit is 55. I'm doing 60, and come up behind a guy doing 50. No passing (dbl yellow), so I'm hanging back a few hundred feet, not on his bumper, for about 5 miles. Passing zone starts, I pull out to go around him and have to go 75 because the bat turd speeds up, then honks as I pass and flips me off as I pull back in (with turn signal on). Why the heck do people do that? Once I was in front of him, he slows way back down again. So do I, continuing on my way at 60 mph. One of these days.................................................................... O.K. rant off.
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