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Old 01-17-2010, 07:48 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man View Post
SOLUTION--on all three-lane interstate highways, label each lane appropriately:

1) LEFT (highspeed) lane SPEED LIMIT = >75 mph
2) CENTER (normal) lane SPEED LIMIT = 55-75 mph
3) RIGHT (slowspeed) lane SPEED LIMIT = <55 mph

...I kinda like 60 mph, simple: one-mile-per minute!
Not comfortable with that because it is the speed DIFFERENTIAL of vehicles in close proximity to each other that causes the impact problems... and we know how much people love to mindlessly switch lanes. Reminds me of setting two food bowls down in front of multiple cats or dogs; the bowl in front of them is NEVER "the right one" so they swap bowls, sometimes several times, because they think the other guy must have something sooo much better. Yup, that's pretty much it.
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