On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:04:06 -0800, Usual Suspect wrote:

> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>>
>> Does he want me to get ticked and fined for doing that? Here in New
>> Jersey, one is legally required to keep in the right hand lane except when
>> passing other vehicles.
>
> I've never heard of anyone getting ticketed for it. Even if you do get
> ticketed, the charge is easily thrown out in court. And even if,
> hypothetically, it doesn't, it does not affect your insurance premiums.
> Would you rather run a small risk of that or have your brains spilled all
> over the right lane by a merging truck? The right lane is for merging and
> exiting vehicles, it's not for normal driving, unless you are suicidal.

Speaking as someone who drives just about every day on a very busy
highway[1]: I almost never see a right lane accident, and most of the
"right lane" accidents I do see are on the ramps, (off ramps more than
on), or in the transfer lanes.
Mind you, the 401 does have good visibility to/from most of the on ramps.
So perhaps what is needed is better highway design.


[1] Before anyone pipes up about their highway, if it doesn't have at
least twelve lanes, (i.e. six each way), it isn't even in the same league.
The 401 has fourteen lanes across the GTA, and needs them.

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Phoenix