NCPD highway patrols on NY 135

[ovi8]

Can you imagine if cars in every lane did a constant 55 mph?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoETMCosULQ

The variation in speed is what prevents congestion, frustration, angst, murderous drivers. Cops let speeding go for good reason as long as it's... reasonable. The above is hardly that. We're not robots.

[ShouldIMoveOrStayPut...?]

Originally Posted by DisneyMcFamily

People try to run me off the road if I'm not going at least 65 in the right lane. LIE is a death trap. I try to use HOV as much as possible, just for the extra space between lanes.

LOL... People seem to regularly do 70 in the right lane lately. Try merging onto a Parkway on one of those seemingly 25 foot long merge lanes (S.S. Parkway West From Deer Park Ave. comes to mind). I now see high performance Audi's/Dodge Challengers/etc. now having to brake to a full stop "pinned down" by oncoming right lane traffic at the "new" speeds. And if your'e in front of one of these cars and you both have had to brake to stop before getting a chance to merge? The more powerful car behind you hits the gas and pulls out at the first opening like your'e not even there.

I don't participate in the practice, but I sometimes see the slower head car pull out and "brake check" the aggressive driver jumping his/her turn, causing them to slam on the brakes. And I'm not talking chronic slowpokes or overly timid drivers, but people with reasonable driving abilities and a decent car, just not as powerful as some high performance models.

Originally Posted by Taz Crazy

Slow people and old people need to stay in the right lane

If a Parkway is two lanes (Sag.) and your'e a "Half Fast" Driver (faster than the slow lane, slower than the fast lane). You have a choice, constantly and continually brake for mergers (or people that actually merge then come to a complete stop) or constantly and continually speed up to get ahead of them or you run the risk of getting broadsided. Or stay in fast lane and have aggressive drivers on your a** and/or blowing by you furiously in the right lane.

Or you can "lane hop" back and forth like an arcade game, moving into the fast lane for merging situations, out of the fast lane for aggressive drivers. This the most dangerous practice, IMO.

With three lanes (135) you can hang out in the middle lane, but lazy commercial and tractor trailer drivers will hug your a** and try to "vibe" you into changing lanes so they don't have to enter the left lane or pass on the right.

James Bond's Aston Martin from "Goldfinger" really is the car to go with these days.

[Joe63]

After eight months, I comment again about NY 135, where I did a round trip today. Southbound about 3 pm from Old Country Road to the Southern State, I tried holding to 60, but all three lanes were pushing 72. It struck me about road design that 72 mph in the right lane is really daredevil because of short acceleration ramps. For example, a vehicle coming west on NY 24 (Hempstead Tpk) turns uphill onto NY 135, with a weaving merge. However, the zone for acceleration ends at the eastbound exit ramp! Imagine that with a dump truck careening along the "slow" lane!
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Meanwhile, on a straightway I noticed in the left lane two cars at about 75 mph, the second car less than two car lengths behind the first. Alert drivers do avoid collisions, but this behavior is full of risk.
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Traffic entering NY 135 southbound from NY 107 (Hicksville Road) meets an evil short acceleration lane before the too-narrow bridge over Arlington Drive.
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And above the Southern State, NY 135 gives weaving traffic little room to accelerate.

[AfriqueNY]

You really studied this. Good work. It's all going to Cha he when speed cams take over and we all get tickets for doing 60 MPH