Why are people in this region left lane campers?

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Anonymous wrote:GET OUT OF THE WAY. If you're not passing in the left lane and there are people behind you, move over. Why is it so hard? The amount of times you drive and get stuck by someone going slow in the left lane is infuriating. It causes sooooo much traffic when people cannot pass because some moron is going slow in the left lane or is going the same speed as other cars and is creating a wall. Get the heck outta the way. You also cause higher risk for accidents, because now everyone has to weave in an out of traffic to get around your a$$ since you're clogging up the flow of traffic. People around here probably have the lowest driving IQ I've ever seen anywhere in this country. It's worse here than LA, NY, and Chicago. Why are there so many oblivious people around here in the roads? Lack of testing by states and DC?

No! On the beltway the speed limit is generally 65 and traffic is dense. Everyone in the right lane is going 65 and everyone in the left lane is already going 75. And you're the reckless tailgating a$$hat who wants everyone to move over so you can go 100?!

And yet the actual speed limit on the beltway is 55.

Doesn’t matter. The obligation to yield to faster moving traffic is independent of the speed limit. Self-appointed speed limit enforcers in the left lane create dangerous conditions.

Wrong. If the speed limit is 55 and traffic in the left lane is already going 75, nobody is required to pull over to the right so you can go 95. They need to arrest reckless speeders like you.

See my post. It is not legal in Virginia to travel in the left lane. Only when actively passing. So yes you are required to get out of that lane unless you are actively passing someone.

https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Virginia-law-targets-slow-left-lane-drivers-479440683.html

Oh the irony. You're trying to justify breaking the law (felony reckless speeding) by pointing to an obscure technical traffic regulation (left lane passing). Love it!

Staying right and passing left is not an “obscure technical traffic regulation,” it’s a basic rule of the road everywhere. And no one is talking about “felony reckless speeding” except for you. No one can go 65 when you’ve sat your @ss right next to another car, both of you going 60 for miles and miles, and that happens ALL THE TIME.

people are talking about going 20 over. Obviously you don't drive much in Virginia if you don't realize that's a felony here

[Anonymous]

If not being able to floor it in the left lane and pass everyone on 66 ruins your day, may I suggest you move to Montana?

Some of us are just trying to get home before dark. And I'm not moving over just so you can move up 30 feet and tailgate the driver in front of me.

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Anonymous wrote:GET OUT OF THE WAY. If you're not passing in the left lane and there are people behind you, move over. Why is it so hard? The amount of times you drive and get stuck by someone going slow in the left lane is infuriating. It causes sooooo much traffic when people cannot pass because some moron is going slow in the left lane or is going the same speed as other cars and is creating a wall. Get the heck outta the way. You also cause higher risk for accidents, because now everyone has to weave in an out of traffic to get around your a$$ since you're clogging up the flow of traffic. People around here probably have the lowest driving IQ I've ever seen anywhere in this country. It's worse here than LA, NY, and Chicago. Why are there so many oblivious people around here in the roads? Lack of testing by states and DC?

No! On the beltway the speed limit is generally 65 and traffic is dense. Everyone in the right lane is going 65 and everyone in the left lane is already going 75. And you're the reckless tailgating a$$hat who wants everyone to move over so you can go 100?!

And yet the actual speed limit on the beltway is 55.

Doesn’t matter. The obligation to yield to faster moving traffic is independent of the speed limit. Self-appointed speed limit enforcers in the left lane create dangerous conditions.

Wrong. If the speed limit is 55 and traffic in the left lane is already going 75, nobody is required to pull over to the right so you can go 95. They need to arrest reckless speeders like you.

See my post. It is not legal in Virginia to travel in the left lane. Only when actively passing. So yes you are required to get out of that lane unless you are actively passing someone.

https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Virginia-law-targets-slow-left-lane-drivers-479440683.html

Oh the irony. You're trying to justify breaking the law (felony reckless speeding) by pointing to an obscure technical traffic regulation (left lane passing). Love it!

Staying right and passing left is not an “obscure technical traffic regulation,” it’s a basic rule of the road everywhere. And no one is talking about “felony reckless speeding” except for you. No one can go 65 when you’ve sat your @ss right next to another car, both of you going 60 for miles and miles, and that happens ALL THE TIME.

x1 billion

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Anonymous wrote:Also, you are not entitled to a clear road free of traffic. The rest of us are adjusting our speed to other cars: you can too.

The point is that on any highway that's not terribly congested, driving properly (using the left lane for passing only) means that NO ONE needs to adjust their speed to other cars. The "drive in the right lane, pass in the left" takes care of that problem entirely! Everyone can drive at their desired speed!

(It's not Ohioans, I learned to drive there. I blame Maryland.)

I'm all for blaming Maryland when possible, but left lane camping is a Virginia custom. 100%

+1 From someone who drives to Jersey and back every weekend this time of year. About 75% of the time it’s a Virginia driver blocking the left lane at the bottom of the Turnpike when it’s only two lanes.

Haha. This is a joke in our family now any time we are driving up or down 95. Is it a VA driver backing everything up? Yup.

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Anonymous wrote:In Virginia it is illegal to be in the left lane unless actively passing. Troopers do give tickets for this.

On the beltway, it's hard to not be actively passing in the left lane. Any trooper pulling anyone over on 495, 66, 95, or 395 is looking for a pretext for a stop

Actively passing means passing. If you are going the same speed as the car in the next lane you are not passing and need to get out of the left lane.

The left lane is almost always 'actively passing.' People who drive faster filter left. 495 isn't a two lane rural road where the left lane can just sit empty

If people are passing you on the right then you are not actively passing.

If it takes you more than a few seconds to pass you are not actively passing.

Seems like people in VA are just never taught how to pass on the highway. They don’t understand the concept.

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We like to go the precise speed limit on cruise control. At that speed it is LEGALLY IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to pass us, so don't come screaming about some left lane rule. Frankly I don't have much sympathy when all these speeding lawbreakers work themselves into a fuming rage. Maybe you shouldn't be behind the wheel if you cannot handle your basic emotions.

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Anonymous wrote:GET OUT OF THE WAY. If you're not passing in the left lane and there are people behind you, move over. Why is it so hard? The amount of times you drive and get stuck by someone going slow in the left lane is infuriating. It causes sooooo much traffic when people cannot pass because some moron is going slow in the left lane or is going the same speed as other cars and is creating a wall. Get the heck outta the way. You also cause higher risk for accidents, because now everyone has to weave in an out of traffic to get around your a$$ since you're clogging up the flow of traffic. People around here probably have the lowest driving IQ I've ever seen anywhere in this country. It's worse here than LA, NY, and Chicago. Why are there so many oblivious people around here in the roads? Lack of testing by states and DC?

No! On the beltway the speed limit is generally 65 and traffic is dense. Everyone in the right lane is going 65 and everyone in the left lane is already going 75. And you're the reckless tailgating a$$hat who wants everyone to move over so you can go 100?!

And yet the actual speed limit on the beltway is 55.

Here are the hall monitors.

Stay right, pass left.

I'm not getting out of a lane moving 65 and into a lane moving 35 so that someone can tailgate the next person in line in the delusion that they can someone how go 75 even though everyone in the left lane is already going as fast as traffic will allow. People seem to think that 495 and 66 and 270 are empty country highways where you can easily get over to let someone pass and then resume your position with no inconvenience.

Outside of rush hour it’s very rarely bumper to bumper. Or 35 mph highways.

Just going around 495, where 95 comes in, where the BW comes in, 95, the right lanes are almost always slow between Braddock and 7, the American Legion are, and then 270 are almost always a mess. In no world is anyone getting over for you when getting over means having to pull into lanes where people are merging on and off and barely moving

Major interstate merges? Ok. That’s not the only place where people drive on highways.

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Anonymous wrote:We like to go the precise speed limit on cruise control. At that speed it is LEGALLY IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to pass us, so don't come screaming about some left lane rule. Frankly I don't have much sympathy when all these speeding lawbreakers work themselves into a fuming rage. Maybe you shouldn't be behind the wheel if you cannot handle your basic emotions.

You are sticking to the right lane, right?

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Anonymous wrote:We like to go the precise speed limit on cruise control. At that speed it is LEGALLY IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to pass us, so don't come screaming about some left lane rule. Frankly I don't have much sympathy when all these speeding lawbreakers work themselves into a fuming rage. Maybe you shouldn't be behind the wheel if you cannot handle your basic emotions.

You are sticking to the right lane, right?

Why? The right lane is often going 10-20 below the speed limit, so of course I will be in the left lane.

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Anonymous wrote:We like to go the precise speed limit on cruise control. At that speed it is LEGALLY IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to pass us, so don't come screaming about some left lane rule. Frankly I don't have much sympathy when all these speeding lawbreakers work themselves into a fuming rage. Maybe you shouldn't be behind the wheel if you cannot handle your basic emotions.

You would get a ticket for blocking the left lane. It would be open and shut. You are not actively passing and in the left lane. That the car behind you is speeding is not a defense to the left lane issue. If there was no one behind you -- you could not be in the left lane if not actively passing. Indeed that is where most of the tickets for this violation come from. People like you driving the speed limit in the left lane. Trooper pulls up behind you and it is an easy ticket. You just do not get to be in that lane in Virginia unless actively passing.

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Anonymous wrote:In Virginia it is illegal to be in the left lane unless actively passing. Troopers do give tickets for this.

On the beltway, it's hard to not be actively passing in the left lane. Any trooper pulling anyone over on 495, 66, 95, or 395 is looking for a pretext for a stop

Actively passing means passing. If you are going the same speed as the car in the next lane you are not passing and need to get out of the left lane.

The left lane is almost always 'actively passing.' People who drive faster filter left. 495 isn't a two lane rural road where the left lane can just sit empty

If people are passing you on the right then you are not actively passing.

If it takes you more than a few seconds to pass you are not actively passing.

Seems like people in VA are just never taught how to pass on the highway. They don’t understand the concept.

This is the way it is enforced.

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Anonymous wrote:There is just too much traffic. When you have 2-4 lanes bumper to bumper, no, it's not rational to leave one empty, especially when the right lane isn't able to travel at the full speed limit either. I almost never see someone clogging up the left lane by driving at exactly the speed limit on 270 or 495, just really heavy traffic where nobody gets to go as fast as they want in any lane.

If the road is clogged then yes I agree you are not going to get a ticket. This is a non-issue.

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Anonymous wrote:GET OUT OF THE WAY. If you're not passing in the left lane and there are people behind you, move over. Why is it so hard? The amount of times you drive and get stuck by someone going slow in the left lane is infuriating. It causes sooooo much traffic when people cannot pass because some moron is going slow in the left lane or is going the same speed as other cars and is creating a wall. Get the heck outta the way. You also cause higher risk for accidents, because now everyone has to weave in an out of traffic to get around your a$$ since you're clogging up the flow of traffic. People around here probably have the lowest driving IQ I've ever seen anywhere in this country. It's worse here than LA, NY, and Chicago. Why are there so many oblivious people around here in the roads? Lack of testing by states and DC?

No! On the beltway the speed limit is generally 65 and traffic is dense. Everyone in the right lane is going 65 and everyone in the left lane is already going 75. And you're the reckless tailgating a$$hat who wants everyone to move over so you can go 100?!

And yet the actual speed limit on the beltway is 55.

Doesn’t matter. The obligation to yield to faster moving traffic is independent of the speed limit. Self-appointed speed limit enforcers in the left lane create dangerous conditions.

Wrong. If the speed limit is 55 and traffic in the left lane is already going 75, nobody is required to pull over to the right so you can go 95. They need to arrest reckless speeders like you.

See my post. It is not legal in Virginia to travel in the left lane. Only when actively passing. So yes you are required to get out of that lane unless you are actively passing someone.

https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Virginia-law-targets-slow-left-lane-drivers-479440683.html

Wrong again. People in the left lane are continually passing the slower traffic in the right lane, so traveling in the left lane is exactly what's required.

You think you're smart but you make no sense. Nobody going the speed limit needs to pull over to the right so you can break the law. That's like insisting that other customers hold open the door for you so you can rob the supermarket even faster.

The law says actively passing. That means passing right then -- not a car up ahead or just passing a car and staying in the lane.

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NP.
I think it's
50% people who are clueless and don't get that they're clogging the left lane

50% people with power complexes who enjoy slowing other drivers down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If not being able to floor it in the left lane and pass everyone on 66 ruins your day, may I suggest you move to Montana?

Some of us are just trying to get home before dark. And I'm not moving over just so you can move up 30 feet and tailgate the driver in front of me.

DP here. Yes, because it is all about you. Are you five years old?