Are rules of the road I think in the past?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On a highway with 3 or more lanes in one direction, driver's ed and the 5-hour course says right lane is slower/ merging/ exiting, middle is/ are travel lane(s), and left is passing. I stay in the middle lane and go at least the speed limit and usually more. If people want to pass me on the right illegally, that is their choice.

You are illegally blocking traffic so people have to go around you.

Driving in the travel lane at or above the speed limit is completely legal. People can pass on the left in the passing lane, or on the right if they want. Either way it has nothing to do with me.

JFC. This is why DC traffic sucks. If you’re being passed on both sides you’re going too slow. Move the f over.

DC traffic sucks because entitled, self-important people feel the need to drive 85 mph on the beltway while texting their underlings and watching a video. I’m an old-school, signal-using driver who sticks to the middle lane and goes with the flow of traffic. Douchebags regularly torpedo by in the right lane then have to slam on brakes or cut someone off when a car inevitably merges. They’re dangerous and they suck and they’re stuck in the same traffic jam with the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On a highway with 3 or more lanes in one direction, driver's ed and the 5-hour course says right lane is slower/ merging/ exiting, middle is/ are travel lane(s), and left is passing. I stay in the middle lane and go at least the speed limit and usually more. If people want to pass me on the right illegally, that is their choice.

You are illegally blocking traffic so people have to go around you.

Driving in the travel lane at or above the speed limit is completely legal. People can pass on the left in the passing lane, or on the right if they want. Either way it has nothing to do with me.

JFC. This is why DC traffic sucks. If you’re being passed on both sides you’re going too slow. Move the f over.

DC traffic sucks because entitled, self-important people feel the need to drive 85 mph on the beltway while texting their underlings and watching a video. I’m an old-school, signal-using driver who sticks to the middle lane and goes with the flow of traffic. Douchebags regularly torpedo by in the right lane then have to slam on brakes or cut someone off when a car inevitably merges. They’re dangerous and they suck and they’re stuck in the same traffic jam with the rest of us.

Time to give up the car keys, Grams.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On a highway with 3 or more lanes in one direction, driver's ed and the 5-hour course says right lane is slower/ merging/ exiting, middle is/ are travel lane(s), and left is passing. I stay in the middle lane and go at least the speed limit and usually more. If people want to pass me on the right illegally, that is their choice.

You are illegally blocking traffic so people have to go around you.

Driving in the travel lane at or above the speed limit is completely legal. People can pass on the left in the passing lane, or on the right if they want. Either way it has nothing to do with me.

JFC. This is why DC traffic sucks. If you’re being passed on both sides you’re going too slow. Move the f over.

DC traffic sucks because entitled, self-important people feel the need to drive 85 mph on the beltway while texting their underlings and watching a video. I’m an old-school, signal-using driver who sticks to the middle lane and goes with the flow of traffic. Douchebags regularly torpedo by in the right lane then have to slam on brakes or cut someone off when a car inevitably merges. They’re dangerous and they suck and they’re stuck in the same traffic jam with the rest of us.

Time to give up the car keys, Grams.

Ahh, so you’re one of the self-important geniuses going 99 in the right lane while texting and eating Wendy’s. Kudos to you! I bet you arrive at your oh-so-important paper-pushing DC job a full 10 seconds faster while endangering the lives of dozens of people each day. I’d recommend a refresher drivers ed course for you, but I’m sure your driving skills are so far superior that no one could possible teach you anything.

BTW passing on the right is illegal (except in specific circUmstances) and I hope you get your license revoked for aggressive driving before you kill someone.

[Anonymous]

The courting of bicycles has impacted travel as budding Lance Armstrongs misunderstand the rules of the road that are NOT in the past. This morning I was turning off 66 to take Key Bridge into Georgetown. There's an intersection at Lynn Street and 66 there where the Custis/Mount Vernon bike trail intersects. Across from me this day-glo cyclist was waiting at the light to go South towards the river, fuming because some car on the cross-street hadn't cleared the intersection when the light turned.

But the cyclist didn't realize that the rule isn't that time stops when a cyclist is ready to go. Rather, the car driver only needs to beat the yellow light into the intersection before it turns red. Then he gets the right to clear the intersection, and THEN the cyclist gets to go. Not before. Instead Lance screamed and got all huffy with the car who was waiting to get out of the way of the car traffic heading onto Lee Highway. It's that kind of entitlement that wasn't there before, people who ride bikes thinking they have special status rather than the obligation to stay out of the way of vehicles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On a highway with 3 or more lanes in one direction, driver's ed and the 5-hour course says right lane is slower/ merging/ exiting, middle is/ are travel lane(s), and left is passing. I stay in the middle lane and go at least the speed limit and usually more. If people want to pass me on the right illegally, that is their choice.

You are illegally blocking traffic so people have to go around you.

Driving in the travel lane at or above the speed limit is completely legal. People can pass on the left in the passing lane, or on the right if they want. Either way it has nothing to do with me.

JFC. This is why DC traffic sucks. If you’re being passed on both sides you’re going too slow. Move the f over.

DC traffic sucks because entitled, self-important people feel the need to drive 85 mph on the beltway while texting their underlings and watching a video. I’m an old-school, signal-using driver who sticks to the middle lane and goes with the flow of traffic. Douchebags regularly torpedo by in the right lane then have to slam on brakes or cut someone off when a car inevitably merges. They’re dangerous and they suck and they’re stuck in the same traffic jam with the rest of us.

Time to give up the car keys, Grams.

Ahh, so you’re one of the self-important geniuses going 99 in the right lane while texting and eating Wendy’s. Kudos to you! I bet you arrive at your oh-so-important paper-pushing DC job a full 10 seconds faster while endangering the lives of dozens of people each day. I’d recommend a refresher drivers ed course for you, but I’m sure your driving skills are so far superior that no one could possible teach you anything.

BTW passing on the right is illegal (except in specific circUmstances) and I hope you get your license revoked for aggressive driving before you kill someone.

Don't blame the PP for having to work around your incompetence. Stay right or STFU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The courting of bicycles has impacted travel as budding Lance Armstrongs misunderstand the rules of the road that are NOT in the past. This morning I was turning off 66 to take Key Bridge into Georgetown. There's an intersection at Lynn Street and 66 there where the Custis/Mount Vernon bike trail intersects. Across from me this day-glo cyclist was waiting at the light to go South towards the river, fuming because some car on the cross-street hadn't cleared the intersection when the light turned.

But the cyclist didn't realize that the rule isn't that time stops when a cyclist is ready to go. Rather, the car driver only needs to beat the yellow light into the intersection before it turns red. Then he gets the right to clear the intersection, and THEN the cyclist gets to go. Not before. Instead Lance screamed and got all huffy with the car who was waiting to get out of the way of the car traffic heading onto Lee Highway. It's that kind of entitlement that wasn't there before, people who ride bikes thinking they have special status rather than the obligation to stay out of the way of vehicles.

You're defending the guy who was blocking the intersection?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The courting of bicycles has impacted travel as budding Lance Armstrongs misunderstand the rules of the road that are NOT in the past. This morning I was turning off 66 to take Key Bridge into Georgetown. There's an intersection at Lynn Street and 66 there where the Custis/Mount Vernon bike trail intersects. Across from me this day-glo cyclist was waiting at the light to go South towards the river, fuming because some car on the cross-street hadn't cleared the intersection when the light turned.

But the cyclist didn't realize that the rule isn't that time stops when a cyclist is ready to go. Rather, the car driver only needs to beat the yellow light into the intersection before it turns red. Then he gets the right to clear the intersection, and THEN the cyclist gets to go. Not before. Instead Lance screamed and got all huffy with the car who was waiting to get out of the way of the car traffic heading onto Lee Highway. It's that kind of entitlement that wasn't there before, people who ride bikes thinking they have special status rather than the obligation to stay out of the way of vehicles.

It is most unwise for anyone, but particularly bicyclists, to attempt to ignore the laws of physics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The courting of bicycles has impacted travel as budding Lance Armstrongs misunderstand the rules of the road that are NOT in the past. This morning I was turning off 66 to take Key Bridge into Georgetown. There's an intersection at Lynn Street and 66 there where the Custis/Mount Vernon bike trail intersects. Across from me this day-glo cyclist was waiting at the light to go South towards the river, fuming because some car on the cross-street hadn't cleared the intersection when the light turned.

But the cyclist didn't realize that the rule isn't that time stops when a cyclist is ready to go. Rather, the car driver only needs to beat the yellow light into the intersection before it turns red. Then he gets the right to clear the intersection, and THEN the cyclist gets to go. Not before. Instead Lance screamed and got all huffy with the car who was waiting to get out of the way of the car traffic heading onto Lee Highway. It's that kind of entitlement that wasn't there before, people who ride bikes thinking they have special status rather than the obligation to stay out of the way of vehicles.

It is most unwise for anyone, but particularly bicyclists, to attempt to ignore the laws of physics.

It's OK if bikes stay on trails. But they really don't belong on streets in the DMV given all the traffic, bike lanes or no bike lanes.

[Anonymous]

Brake checking no longer exists. Too much tech. Used to have play in brake if you pressed lightly came on with brakes going on

I took it further On my 1971 Dodge for idiots tailgating I had a switch under dashboard where I could turn on brake lights without hitting brakes. Freaked people out on my tail.

I even then added back up lights switch. I hit that once on 95 and guy behind me freaked out.

You used to get a ticket for brake checking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The courting of bicycles has impacted travel as budding Lance Armstrongs misunderstand the rules of the road that are NOT in the past. This morning I was turning off 66 to take Key Bridge into Georgetown. There's an intersection at Lynn Street and 66 there where the Custis/Mount Vernon bike trail intersects. Across from me this day-glo cyclist was waiting at the light to go South towards the river, fuming because some car on the cross-street hadn't cleared the intersection when the light turned.

But the cyclist didn't realize that the rule isn't that time stops when a cyclist is ready to go. Rather, the car driver only needs to beat the yellow light into the intersection before it turns red. Then he gets the right to clear the intersection, and THEN the cyclist gets to go. Not before. Instead Lance screamed and got all huffy with the car who was waiting to get out of the way of the car traffic heading onto Lee Highway. It's that kind of entitlement that wasn't there before, people who ride bikes thinking they have special status rather than the obligation to stay out of the way of vehicles.

In what jurisdiction is this the law? You should not enter an intersection unless you can clear it.

Also are you saying that if the person who was unable to cross the intersection was in a car that person would just wait patiently and not honk or try to go around? Hardly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re the problem. If you’re being passed on the right you’re going too slow. Speed up or move over

This only works if the person ahead of you is passing and going fast enough.

Apparently, I belong in Germany because I will flash at people. You are being passed on the right and I am reminding you to get over because you are going slower than those on the right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You’re the problem. If you’re being passed on the right you’re going too slow. Speed up or move over

This only works if the person ahead of you is passing and going fast enough.

Apparently, I belong in Germany because I will flash at people. You are being passed on the right and I am reminding you to get over because you are going slower than those on the right.

Flashing is a friendly reminder to get TF over. Only insecure, bad drivers would get offended by that.