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Old 06-04-2019, 01:23 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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Entitlement baby....pure entitlement. It's one thing this area excels at!
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Old 06-04-2019, 01:33 PM
 
Location: Rochester, WA
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No guys. I'm talking about when traffic is flowing well, like one hour ago when I was driving from Edmonds toward Seattle on I-5. There were 2 people (at various times) going about 50 mph in the left lane. Please don't try to justify that or tell me that's normal. It's not.

The whole freeway was clear except two guys going 50 in the left lane? Really?

If the rest of the lanes were clear then you shouldn't have been in the left lane either.
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Old 06-04-2019, 01:37 PM
 
Location: King County, WA
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It's a trip, not a race. Relax and listen to the radio; that'll do you a lot more good than getting there 30 seconds early.
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Old 06-04-2019, 02:30 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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No Diana, not freeway clear, just flowing pretty well. You guys are funny. I do absolutely enjoy this journey in life and on the road . Missing the point though, no slow in left lane. Bad, not good.
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Old 06-04-2019, 02:57 PM
 
Location: WA
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No Diana, not freeway clear, just flowing pretty well. You guys are funny. I do absolutely enjoy this journey in life and on the road . Missing the point though, no slow in left lane. Bad, not good.

Agreed, driving slow in the left lane is not good, is against the law, and you can be ticketed.



https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...-lane-camping/



There was a TV interview a while ago; a highway patrol was being interviewed and stated that law enforcement was trying to crack down on left lane campers. Gist of the interview was that it is ILLEGAL to impede traffic flow in the left lane. Even if the drivers behind you are SPEEDING, move to the right! At such slow speeds, the slow left lane driver is impeding traffic flow, even if the drivers behind you are speeding.



It is not the job of the "slow campers" to enforce the speed limit.
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Old 06-04-2019, 03:39 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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It's a trip, not a race. Relax and listen to the radio; that'll do you a lot more good than getting there 30 seconds early.
...said the man in the 1974 yellow colored Volvo..
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Old 06-04-2019, 03:40 PM
 
Location: Rochester, WA
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If I have a long trip in front of me I am not going to keep changing lanes just to try to get out of the way of speeders.

I'm not advocating for driving SLOWER than surrounding traffic, but as long as there are other cars to my right and I am passing them readily, either at or above the speed limit, or... at a speed that is safe for the amount of traffic, I don't have to slow down to move over for you just because you want to go 80 instead of 60. I'm not enforcing the speed limit, I am avoiding frivolous and unnecessary lane changing back and forth.

Last edited by Diana Holbrook; 06-04-2019 at 04:31 PM..
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Old 06-04-2019, 03:52 PM
 
Location: Portal to the Pacific
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I can remember my college days when 90 in a 65 zone seemed just perfect for my commute between Dallas and Austin, but those days are long over and I am admittedly a slow driver now. Part of it is I drive a crappy car that I'm babying until I get the damn mortgage paid off. I've already killed the transmission once at 60k miles during a road trip through the Sierra Navadas a few years ago.. I'm at 100k and she doesn't sound good going up hills. Oh God, I want a new car...

I do stay as far away from the left lane as I possibly can and if it were legal to ride the shoulder I would. It should be common courtesy, but I guess courtesy isn't common...
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Old 06-04-2019, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Central Washington
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How slow is too slow though? I feel like as long as you are going faster than the traffic to the right... and/or over the speed limit, we don't need to pull over just because someone else wants to go even faster. There's no 'right' to go 80 on the freeway.
Except that's not what the law states. From Hemlock140's post
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Upon all roadways having two or more lanes for traffic moving in the same direction, all vehicles shall be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic, except (a) when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction
After you pass the slower traffic and when its safe to do so, you're supposed to move back to the right.
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Old 06-04-2019, 05:44 PM
 
Location: Rochester, WA
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Except that's not what the law states. From Hemlock140's post After you pass the slower traffic and when its safe to do so, you're supposed to move back to the right.

As long as there are still cars to my right and I am still passing them, I don't need to move back to the right, if that means I must slow down to merge in there.

I am assuming normal I-5 traffic, where there is a steady stream of cars.


Am I supposed to slow down and merge into heavier traffic just because someone else wants to drive faster than me? That's where I say no.
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