"andy levy" <andylevy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Punch wrote:
>
> > oh I understand what speed your talking about, but everyone refers to
the
> > highway lanes as the slow lane the middle lanes and the fast lane, yet
there
> > is only one speed limit for the highway! if everyone was obeying the
law,
> > and not racing nobody would need to pass, and the only cars in the slow
> > lanes would be trucks ascending hills!
>
> How do you figure? The speed limit is just that - the *limit*. Which
> implies that you are allowed to go slower. In New York, it's perfect
> legal to go 55 in a zone posted for 65 - as long as you're less than 15
> MPH under the limit you don't even have to put on your hazard flashers.
> In fact, it's even *technically* illegal to pass someone who's doing
> 65 in a 65 zone, because you're then doing more than 65. Slower traffic
> must stay to the right.
my point exactly you shouldn't be passing/racing anyone who is doing 65, and
for those peeps doing under 65 why are they on the highway in the
firstplace, this is impeding the flow of traffic and is also illegal!
punch
p.s. so its legal for me to stay in the left lane/fast lane and do 65!
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