Anonymous wrote:I’m confused. Are people saying you are literally not allowed in the left lane if you are not passing someone? Well then, if the left lane is only for passing, then during gridlock conditions it should be empty, right? Because nobody is passing anybody? Yet when the beltway is clogged, for example, every single lane is in use.

Our roads are too busy to keep one lane empty.

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Anonymous wrote:The left lane isn't always meant to be a passing lane, OP.

If it's not a turning lane, slower traffic keeps right. Period.

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If you're cruising in the left lane and there's nobody behind you, fine. But if someone's coming up, you move over right. There's no excuse.

Unless the right lane is crowded and you are still going at a faster speed and therefore passing those in the right lane. I can't tell you how many times someone who wants to go 90MPH is up my butt when I am passing those in the right lane.

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Anonymous wrote:The left lane isn't always meant to be a passing lane, OP.

If it's not a turning lane, slower traffic keeps right. Period.

+1

If you're cruising in the left lane and there's nobody behind you, fine. But if someone's coming up, you move over right. There's no excuse.

Unless the right lane is crowded and you are still going at a faster speed and therefore passing those in the right lane. I can't tell you how many times someone who wants to go 90MPH is up my butt when I am passing those in the right lane.

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Anonymous wrote:The left lane isn't always meant to be a passing lane, OP.

If it's not a turning lane, slower traffic keeps right. Period.

+1

If you're cruising in the left lane and there's nobody behind you, fine. But if someone's coming up, you move over right. There's no excuse.

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Also, while the left lane is a passing lane, it is still subject to the same speed limit. I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who are irritated just because they can't go 15 or 20 miles over the limit. I try to stay out of their way, of course (while hoping that they get pulled over and ticketed for reckless driving), but that's also very dangerous driving. You don't actually have the right to go 80 in a 55. I have no idea if there is any difference in how often Americans speed v. other countries, but there are a lot of people who get annoyed that the left lane isn't open for them to drive at unsafe speeds.

The above is very true. It is amazing how many people think they have the right to go 80+ in a 55 zone. It is not at all the same as doing a little over 60 to pass a slower driver in the right lane.

I know people think they are smarter than the law, but speed limits exist for a reason.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so sick of these posts about how superior Europe is. You have terrible drivers, too. When traffic is bad somewhere, people use the left as a regular driving lane.

Bruh, Europe is superior in every aspect. Relax. I've also seen people treating the left lane as a regular lane in no traffic. OP is right.

Why wouldn't you live in Europe then, if it's so superior in every aspect?

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Also, while the left lane is a passing lane, it is still subject to the same speed limit. I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who are irritated just because they can't go 15 or 20 miles over the limit. I try to stay out of their way, of course (while hoping that they get pulled over and ticketed for reckless driving), but that's also very dangerous driving. You don't actually have the right to go 80 in a 55. I have no idea if there is any difference in how often Americans speed v. other countries, but there are a lot of people who get annoyed that the left lane isn't open for them to drive at unsafe speeds.

The above is very true. It is amazing how many people think they have the right to go 80+ in a 55 zone. It is not at all the same as doing a little over 60 to pass a slower driver in the right lane.

I know people think they are smarter than the law, but speed limits exist for a reason.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so sick of these posts about how superior Europe is. You have terrible drivers, too. When traffic is bad somewhere, people use the left as a regular driving lane.

Bruh, Europe is superior in every aspect. Relax. I've also seen people treating the left lane as a regular lane in no traffic. OP is right.

Also, while the left lane is a passing lane, it is still subject to the same speed limit. I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who are irritated just because they can't go 15 or 20 miles over the limit. I try to stay out of their way, of course (while hoping that they get pulled over and ticketed for reckless driving), but that's also very dangerous driving. You don't actually have the right to go 80 in a 55. I have no idea if there is any difference in how often Americans speed v. other countries, but there are a lot of people who get annoyed that the left lane isn't open for them to drive at unsafe speeds.

Anonymous wrote:It depends. On a highway or freeway, the general rule is that the left lane is for passing. But (1) sometimes the traffic in the right lane is going even slower, or (2) sometimes a driver in the left lane can't easily merge back into the right lane (being tailgated by an aggressive driver can actually make this harder), or (3) sometimes the traffic is just generally heavy and so people try to spread out across all three lanes, or (4) sometimes the driver has a left exit coming up. And sometimes people aren't paying a ton of attention, or they don't think that people should be driving over the limit, or it's some control thing, or whatever. But I think that (1)-(3) explain a lot of the people hanging out in the left lane.

Also, while the left lane is a passing lane, it is still subject to the same speed limit. I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who are irritated just because they can't go 15 or 20 miles over the limit. I try to stay out of their way, of course (while hoping that they get pulled over and ticketed for reckless driving), but that's also very dangerous driving. You don't actually have the right to go 80 in a 55. I have no idea if there is any difference in how often Americans speed v. other countries, but there are a lot of people who get annoyed that the left lane isn't open for them to drive at unsafe speeds.

Anonymous wrote:I wondered if it's because there's always traffic congestion on the highways so the drivers are trying to spread out on all the lanes.

Anonymous wrote:There are no standards in America. There are just masses of morons.