Keep Left Unless Overtaking

[neilrr]

Or permit overtaking on either side, which seems to work well in the USA. And stop calling the right lane the 'overtaking lane'!

It doesn't work in the US in my experience.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rf065
It doesn't happen in the USA, you can overtake in any lane over there.
I have never had to sit behind a buffoon hogging the fast lane over there.

Russ

You may not have "had to sit behind a buffoon hogging the fast lane over there" but I'll bet my life it's only because you were changing from lane to lane to lane to avoid the rolling roadblock of ignorant, inattentive drivers playing "I'm the King of the castle" & blocking ALL lanes of the freeway.

It is just plain wrong to claim the US system is better or safer.

I don't know where you've been driving in the States but in the 25 odd years I lived there it was impossible to drive the freeways at any kind of normal (i.e. UK) speeds because the traffic isn't stratified at all. Cars are all moving at pretty much the same speed regardless of what lane they are in. To go faster than the rest you have to literally drive around them.

IMHO US drivers are the worst & least skillful of any first world nation. The domestic automotive product had more in common with your living room couch than a dynamic vehicle. Many drivers head straight for the fast lane, set the cruise at a couple of miles lower than the speed limit, throw their arm over the back of the passenger seat, reach for their super size soda, fiddle with the radio or make a few phone calls & go on moron autopilot, never even looking in their rear view mirrors.

If you want to make significantly faster progress than everyone else the only way to do it is to aim for the gaps and change lanes very often. Drivers will not yield to faster traffic or move over to let faster traffic pass. It is far more dangerous and stressful than driving at speed in the UK or Europe.

The system here is brilliant when drivers obey the rules. It makes for smooth, fast journeys where you know what to expect, know people are aware of what's going on around them & for the most part know how to drive safely & courteously.

It needs to be enforced, not changed.

 

[Shude]

"DON'T HOG THE MIDDLE LANE" 08:10 southbound M6 just before Jct 27

 

[Shude]

"KEEP LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING" 19:00 northbound M6 just before Charnock Richard services.

 

[welland99]

also saw another sign, several times, which stated that the M1 was closed between j14 and j13 - no diversion signs, nothing else! Turned out it wasn't closed at all - what sort of idiots do they employ manning those signs?!?

Yeah that happenned to me a couple of months ago. So I spent a while trying to work out if there was a better way to go instead and then gave up. I expected that a diversion would be signed nearer to the closure. In the end there was no closure, so I was v glad I hadn't taken a detour.

 

[welland99]

Second bit, no joke

I'm with you all the way

 

[nullogik]

shame we don,t teach more lane discipline to young drivers

Its not young drivers who also need teaching lane discipline...its everybody! That goes for those who have been on the road for years and still don't seem to have grasped the idea of keeping left (and from my trips it would seem to be people of all driving ages and sexes that are to blame and not just younger drivers).

 

[G.O'Rilla]

Since yesterday I've seen "KEEP LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING" and "DON'T HOG THE MIDDLE LANE" twice on the M6 going north and south around the Gtr Manchester area.

It had no apparent effect. I found myself shouting from the driving seat: "yes, Volvo-man, it's talking to you!".

Yep, it was the same on thursday and this morning - the difference in the two days being it was Rover 214's and old Honda civics this morning and not too many under-performing sales reps late for their quarterly telephone sanitiser's conference.........

 

[st4]

. And stop calling the right lane the 'overtaking lane'!

Will do, it's now the competition lane

 

[compress ignite]

motor insurance and lane disipline

1/2 the automobiles in Alabama have no Insurance.

40% of all the vehicles on the road in Georgia have no Insurance.

South Carolina may still accept discharge papers from the army of the
Confederate States of America as valid proof of License.



No One will yield/give right of way to an Ambulance,with it's sirens and lights going.

'Parked in a "Fire Lane" in front of a building in the City of Atlanta?
Firemen driving the Trucks have instructions to push the offending vehicle(s) out of the way,Immediately.

'Back in the middle 1980s a Judge in Atlanta gave ticket (citation)books
to about 20 handicapped individuals.
[with the authority to write tickets for Handicap Parking Violations]
One gentleman in a wheelchair wrote $10,000.00 USD of Tickets in one day.(At $500.00 a pop.)

Police in Alabama and Georgia cannot buy pursuit vehicles fast enough to
apprehend violators operating "Rice Rockets"
[High speed Japanese motorcycles] .They routinely report motorcycle
riders escaping @ speeds well over 150 MPH as clocked on the Police vehicle's radar.

NO One will yield right of way on the Interstate Highways to anyone else.

I have long ago come to the conclusion that automobiles in America do not
have turn signal devices anymore.
(or there is some kind of roadway game to try and cause accidents)

I have been driving since I first obtained my license in 1968 and there is
no longer any pleasure involved...It's degraded into a blood sport, with
the Winners (By extreme Alertness and Obsessive Defensive Driving)
simply achieving transport from "A" to "B"...with Vehicle,Passengers and
Self intact!

['Talk on a Damn Cellular Telephone ? You're Insane!]
['Text Message the Girlfriend, whilst behind the Wheel ? A Death Wish!]
[This, is how the Germans know Americans are Crazy..."Cup Holders"]