Posted on 06/27/2013 6:28:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Left-lane hogs, beware.
You could be charged double for failing to keep right under a bill passed Monday by the Assembly.
Motorists who clog the left or center lanes instead of using them to pass another vehicle would see fines increase from between $50 and $200 now to between $100 and $300. The bill calls for $50 from each violation going toward signs reminding motorists who enter New Jersey about the state’s stay-right law.
“On behalf of road rage, I move the bill,” said Assemblyman Gilbert “Whip” Wilson (D-Camden), a co-sponsor of the measure, which passed 69-7.
Aside from drinking and driving, failure to keep right is perhaps the most hazardous action on roadways, said Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon (R-Monmouth), also a co-sponsor. …
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
The big city west coast, is exactly the same. Good depiction. Perhaps, the start of a novel. You write well.
How bout we just do it the nascar way.. Get under them, get um loose and put um in the ditch, wall or whatever is around to get um outta the way.
What does it say about a society that feels they have a right to choose which laws they obey? The speed limit doesn’t apply to me because I special. I don’t need to yield because I’m special. Many here speak of a slippery slope. Where should you be expected to start obeying the law? Almost any law in Mexico can be bypass with a bribe, La mordida. If illegals see a similar attitude with Americans, they choose witch law they want to obey, why can’t we do the same?
I must meet my parents for dinner.
There's an app called Waze for that.
I know. There are detectors, the police have detector detectors.
I grew up. I don’t play games where I can lose my license or even needlessly sit in traffic court on a Tuesday night just so I can go 10 mph faster on the way to work.
I don’t care any more if I’m late. People will just have to deal. If it’s so all-fired important to me, I hoist my @ss outta the house early steada waitin’ till the last minute.
In NJ, on a 45 minute trip, you can be there anywhere between 45 minutes and 90 minutes.
If I need to be somewhere in the morning for sure, I leave 5 or 530 am. I get where I’m going, then look to stop for a leisurely breakfast before I go in to my appertment.
{i}Many times I have been unable to move right because the self-important speedsters are passing me on the right at well above the speed limit.{/i]
Maybe they got tired of waiting for you to get the heck out of the passing lane. I know I don’t like to pass on the right, but I’m not going to sit behind some oblivious driver in the passing lane forever waiting for them to move over.
Your post could have been written by me. I expect that the same driving patterns and habits predominate anywhere with high population density and heavy traffic (the Toronto-Niagara corridor, in my case). Some of it even outside of the built-up areas where there’s no excuse - yeah, I’ve seen the idiots that just have to pass me (when I’m in the right lane of two, with my cruise set at 114 kph - speed limit 100 kph - a speed I know will keep me off the cop’s radar), get in front of me, and then slow down to below my absolutely stable speed. So I pass them and resume doing 114, and next thing they do it again. So I take a chance and hammer down to 140 or 150 for a minute (about 85-90 mph) and put them a good distance behind me, and that seems to shake them off and I never see them again.
Still, I think what I said before still applies - if you’re not passing someone in the middle lane (of 3), or about to, there’s no reason to be cruising along in the left lane. But if it’s really busy, and you’re doing a good speed already and generally passing slower traffic (and there’s probably not really anywhere to go faster in front of you, anyway), then staying in the left lane is reasonable. I won’t get out of the left lane where I’m in a groove, so that I can get stuck in slower traffic in the middle lane (where the daydreamers, nose pickers, etc, are, as you say), just so that some guy in a hurry can get 10 car lengths further in the left lane before ending up behind another car going the same speed I was. But outside the built-up areas, when the traffic’s fairly light and you can just as easily do your chosen speed in the right lane as the left? No reason to be in the left.
Cops would sooner pull you over for flicking you lights to alert the driver ahead of you that they are in the OVERTAKING LANE... and need to move right. Traffic on I-78 moves at 78MPH... I-80...80MPH...
NY drivers are the worst.... but PA drivers commuting to work in NJ are actually better than NJ drivers.... because they are mostly the intelligent people that used to live in NJ but wised up and moved to PA.
"Safety" is NEVER the reason for this kind of tyranny; Revenue IS.
Yes SIR, Officer SIR!
What happens on the day you are beyond the limit of your state-allotted Oxygen and Water? Will you arrest yourself?
Holy crap I know RIGHT where that is... I-78 eastbound prior to Berkeley Heights... Yeah... there is no tolerance for that... right at where that video ends after the bridge the highway becomes divided by Jersey Barriers. You can make good time there since there is no way for a cop to turn around and come get you... I would hit 136MPH in that stretch just about every day.
Like I’m going to move when there is a string of idiots that won’t give me a chance!
ALSO THERE ARE TIMES WHEN ONE MUST GET TO THE LEFT LANE WELL AHEAD OF A LEFT TURN.I’ve been unable to move over while doing 50 in a 45 because a stream of speedsters is passing at 60.
A lot of people just think they are too important to follow the speed limits.
To heck with all such.
You wanna play Mario Andretti ?go on a track.
It’s the people leaving before dawn... without sunglasses... and they don’t know how to work the sunvisor... commuting east in the morning... west in the evening. Everyone else suffers.
You would not last 3 minutes on the Autobahn. The Interstate highway system here is modeled after the Autobahn... speed limits are a result of people being unable to stay right except for overtaking.
There are sections of the Garden State Parkway that are 8 lanes. They made them that way for reason, but this law says everyone needs to stay in the far right lane? Dumb Ass Politicians never saw a law they didn’t love.
Wouldn’t have to drive that way on the Autobahn, since in Germany they don’t give a driver’s license to every mouth-breathing moron who can pass a simple multiple guess test, and the middle lane wouldn’t be clogged with idiots barely doing the speed limit, if that. From what I understand, German police actually spend their time enforcing traffic laws, not just generating revenue for infractions against arbitrary and ridiculously low speed limits.
I used to work in East Orange and commute to Spotswood via the GSP. A Friday evening in the summer during a rainstorm was guaranteed to produce parking lot conditions for miles and miles with every lane clogged. Longest commute I ever had was 6 hours, leaving the office at 5 and getting home at 11. Wife thought I was out drinking LOL.
The one thing I can't agree with though is setting up shop in the fast lane in fine weather at 65 MPH on say the NJ Turnpike or GSP; many times it'll cause those many crazy NJ drivers to pass on the right, causing potential chaos. I use it mostly as a passing lane in any case. Revenue Cherry-Tops lie like wolves awaiting their prey if one stays there too long.
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