Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!watdcsu!broehl
From: broehl@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <5851@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 89 14:14:09 GMT
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Reply-To: broehl@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
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In article <1657@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> kevin@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Wallace B. Wallace) writes:
>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.

Exactly.  In general, I stay in the right lane unless passing or making
space for people pouring on from a ramp.  If I'm in the left lane it's
usually because I'm passing; I slow down to get out of it only if I'm
blocked front and side with some guy bearing down on me from behind
flashing his lights and tailgating.

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	Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept
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