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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go ahead - tell your little story to any safety expert, transportation specialist, or law enforcement officer, and see what kind of answer you get.[/quote]
They’ll tell me I’m obeying the speed limit and driving safely.  That’s what they’ll tell me. [/quote]
LEO here.  Obeying the speed limit and driving safely are two different things.  You might be doing one, but you are certainly not doing the other.  If I came up on you running your little blockade, I'd flash the blue lights and get you to move over.  You could be cited for this kind of behavior, not to mention that your intentionally impeding traffic flow could limit emergency vehicle response or be a contributing factor to a road rage incident.  Leave the policing to the police.[/quote]

I am quite sure if you cited someone for impeding traffic, when they are driving the limit, and it is NOT in the left lane of a multilane road, that ticket would get dismissed by the court.  You would be wasting your time showing up in court for it, and I suspect your supervisor would have problems with it. If it got out that you did that (in my inside the beltway jurisdiction) I can swear the local safety advocates would be abuzz and it would be a scandal.

If you are really a LEO, you either don't do traffic, or you are not a local cop in a close in jurisdiction in greater DC. [/quote]

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