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From: kevin@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Wallace B. Wallace)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <1657@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 17 Apr 89 13:44:54 GMT
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In article <3098@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>You may think it's cute when a you're blocking the left lane to
>slow down to re-insert yourself, and I suppose it is the right thing
...
>-- 
>Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

I completely agree with you when looking at it from this perspective Brad,
but the situation I always encounter is when all lanes are jammed and some
guy behind me is weaving in and out of lanes so that he can get wherever he
is going 30 seconds earlier.  When I'm driving in the "passing" lane (which
really does not exist as such during rush hour) and I am trying to leave a
safe distance in front of me, it really bugs me that these 'weavers' think
that they are entitled to occupy that safe area.

I like to make some allowance during heavier traffic by not leaving huge
gaps in front of me (I like 1/2 the recommended 2 second spacing during
rush hour), but by no means am I advocating slow passing or even (as I have
seen happen many times) speed matching.  (As a side note, I once had this
guy in front of me who deliberately made every effort to prevent me from
passing him, including matching speeds with cars beside him, slamming on
the brakes when I was behind him and accelerating as I went to pass him.
With guys like this on the road it's no wonder that there are so many
unnecessary traffic problems.  Maybe *someday* they'll include common sense
in the drivers exam.)

--- Kevin Picott
    NTT Systems Inc.
      currently stationed at DCIEM, CFB Toronto