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Originally Posted by songman

I find that extraordinary. If you're driving 60 in a 65 maximum zone, you a required to move up to the maximum or pull over to let others through??? What if you rather speed up than pull over, inadvertently flick over 65 and get a ticket for speeding? FF's sake.

No offence, but I think some of you folk, or your legislators, need to work on what the word "maximum" means.

If you want to be pedantic about it and make it into something it's not so you can cut that down then yea it's pretty ridiculous. Meanwhile in reality it is more ridiculous to think you would get ticketed for inadvertently flicking over the limit, or that it's an issue when traveling that close to the speed limit or are awake enough to use the slow lane in the passing lanes, keep an eye out for pull outs, or are willing to drop onto the shoulder and bleed some speed off to let the train of cars pass you. (FF' sake, really, you're that angry about it?).

I drive well below the limit and would let faster drivers by with out this law. I have a right to drive slower if I want, and vehicles coming up from behind must yield right of way. That does not mean that I would want to prevent them from getting along with their trip.

The law was written (and does a good job of) to prevent a situation where a slower driver would collect large train of vehicles, do nothing to let them by,then you get a few drivers in a hurry who would try to pass at any opportunity. Often with little regard to the possibility of oncoming traffic. That situation caused (and continues to cause though less so now) a high rate of head ons.

Alaska is pretty vast and a slight reduction in average speed can cause a significant increase in trip time.