ztanos said:
It's actually an unpatrolled law in all states. Keep right except to pass. Slow traffic keep right. There are signs everywhere. Some states have recently started ticketing for travelling in the left lane (at any speed) when you shouldn't be. Michigan for example has a law that states loosely "If you are travelling in the left lane, with the ability to move over, for more than 1/4 mile you can be ticketed." Now I know this is hard to patrol, but it is called courtesy. If more people had it, there would be less traffic jams and accidents. But people can't seem to get their heads out of their own behinds and figure it out.
This is kind of straying from the topic a bit, but I'm truly curious as to why such an obviously stupid (to me, anyway
) policy would be so strongly held? If you're being overtaken in the left lane (of two total) of a freeway, then sure; move over. But given that most freeway entrances & exits are to & from the right lane, I hold that keeping that lane clear for such maneuvers is, far from a danger, a massive AID to safe traffic flow. On the rare occasions when I unwisely try commuting at rush hour, the pattern is crystal clear: 60+MPH travel abruptly comes to a standstill, and, oh, look: coincidentally, right at an interchange. Or, after merging into such an aforementioned highway and finally jockeying into some hairsbreadth of space in the right-hand lane, seething inwardly as the (barely) moving obstacles I've just contended with blithely creep through the next interchange, still without exiting, and obstructing its functioning as well. "Keep right except to pass" - phooey!