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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm sure there are many like you, on this and other issues, which is no doubt a major reason that driving is so unpleasant around here.[/quote]

And here's the core delusion at work:  if only you were to get out of my way, driving would be *so* pleasant in the greater DC area.

DC driving sucks.  It's going to suck.  It's only going to get worse.  No amount of chimerical villains you conjure up is going to change that.

I'm curious though:  when is the traffic in the DC area not at least "heavy traffic"?  Do you live around here?[/quote]

I do live here.  Heavy traffic is a common, but certainly not universal, occurrence around here.  For example, I was on I-495 between River Road and Old Georgetown Road at about 8:30 this morning, and traffic was hardly heavy.  Flow of traffic was at about 70 -- I was in the right lane doing 60 or so, because I needed to exit -- it was easy to keep 4-5 car lengths behind the car in front of me, and easy to change lanes as needed.   This kind of traffic condition happens fairly often when you are not committed to thinking that DC traffic is "always" heavy so that you can continue driving in the left lane whenever you feel like it.

What is so hard about admitting that, if someone is coming up behind you faster than you want to go, and it is safe to move over for them, that you are supposed to do so?  I do this all the time, and it is really not a big deal.  And if I feel like driving slow, which I do more and more often these days due to the craziness on the roads, I get in the right lane and drive 55 or 65, depending on conditions.  Not everyone who thinks you are wrong on this issue is a psychotic speed demon.  Some of us just recognize that failure to yield to faster traffic, whether they are speeding or not, does a lot to create very dangerous situations on the road and people shouldn't do it.   And, in at least some jurisdictions under some circumstances, the law recognizes this and requires people to yield to faster traffic.  [/quote]

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