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In the early 1980s, transit officials in Washington couldn’t figure out
why traffic on the Beltway ground nearly to a halt every day at the same time.
Turned out a single driver was to blame. Every day on his drive to work, this
commuter would plant himself in the left lane and set his cruise control to 55
mph, the posted speed limit, forcing those behind him to merge right, to
predictable effect. The driver, John O. Nestor, came forward in a letter to the
Washington Post, explaining the virtues of the left lane -- less traffic,
less merging -- and asking, “Why should I inconvenience myself for someone who
wants to speed?”
The Colonel doesn't know the law in the District of Columbia, but in sunny Arizona Mr. Nestor would be breaking the law:
B. On all roadways, a person driving a vehicle proceeding at
less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the
conditions then existing shall drive the vehicle in the right-hand lane then
available for traffic or as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge
of the roadway, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in
the same direction or when preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into
a private road or driveway.
2. Except when overtaking and passing on the right is
permitted, the driver of an overtaken vehicle shall give way to the right in
favor of the overtaking vehicle on audible signal or blinking of head lamps at
nighttime and shall not increase the speed of the overtaken vehicle until
completely passed by the overtaking vehicle.
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