Left-lane drivers

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   Don't the same rules apply to HOV's like any other freeway?  The left lane is for passing....if you're not passing, then pllleeeezze, move to the right.  Why is it that MOST drivers in the HOV drive in the left lane?  Frustrating!!

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Luvmyhybrid Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Location: va Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Luvmyhybrid Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Left-lane drivers Posted: 18 May 2004 at 8:39pm
	Don't the same rules apply to HOV's like any other freeway? The left lane is for passing....if you're not passing, then pllleeeezze, move to the right. Why is it that MOST drivers in the HOV drive in the left lane? Frustrating!!

VA_Slugger Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote VA_Slugger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 2004 at 6:53am
	Amen to that Hybrid. Since moving to VA in the past two years, I've noticed a LOT of drivers wil get in the "FAST" lane and stay there doing just under the speed limit. [:(!] Talk about frustrating. Then as you come up on them and flash your lights to pass, they just ignore you. I must re-read the VA manual to ensure I'm not doing something wrong. [8]

dixeedog Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote dixeedog Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 2004 at 7:48am
	Hybrids shouldn't be in either lane of the HOV.

mycroftt Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 11 Feb 2002 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote mycroftt Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 2004 at 8:22am
	quote: Originally posted by VA_Slugger [br]Amen to that Hybrid. Since moving to VA in the past two years, I've noticed a LOT of drivers wil get in the "FAST" lane and stay there doing just under the speed limit. [:(!] Talk about frustrating. Then as you come up on them and flash your lights to pass, they just ignore you. I must re-read the VA manual to ensure I'm not doing something wrong. [8] Sorry VA, but I think you ARE doing something wrong. When I moved here from CT about 6 years ago I also experienced the frustration of all these slowpokes parked in the left lane. In CT the left lane is for passing only and drivers who park out there and are not passing are subject to getting a ticket - we also have a no passing on the right law. Not so, apparently, in VA. From what I gather the left lane is just another travel lane - it's not a fast lane or a passing lane. The trade off is that you can pass on the right here. If you flash your lights most people consider it rude. I'm a firm believe in "When in Nome do as the Nomans do" so I put a sticker with my favorite NASCAR driver's number in my back window and I weave in and out passing cars right and left. If anybody flashes their lights or beeps their horn I flip them the bird and roar off. I haven't really learned yet how to guage my speed to make it difficult for other drivers to merge in to "my" lane but I'm working on it and I have made real progress in internalizing the basic need to be "in front" of other drivers. [:o)] Mike

vabigblue Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote vabigblue Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 2004 at 8:40am
	I must agree with every post in this thread so far. The left lane is strictly for passing; however, I believe some drivers think the left lane is for "poking" along. Maybe they think they're in Britian.

emancilla Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote emancilla Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 2004 at 8:54am
	The left lane on I-95 is the "fast lane". I've seen signs along I-95.

tdar20 Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Location: va Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote tdar20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 2004 at 9:26am
	This has to be one of the most frustrating things on 95 that I encounter. Hopefully one day people will wake up and move over. And by the way Dixie, get over it. Hybrids are allowed until the law is changed and it appears that out political representatives are not going to do that any time soon.

sluDgE Members Profile Find Members Posts Master Slug Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Status: Offline Points: 501	Post Options Post Reply Quote sluDgE Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 2004 at 10:13am
	Most slugs are FOR hybrids in the HOV-3 I-95/I-395 lanes during rush hours -- as long as there is a driver with 2 slugs in each of those hybrids! Lots of good arguments have been posted on this site about why it just doesn't make sense that hybrids should be HOV-exempt. [;)]

slugguru Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 17 May 2004 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote slugguru Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 2004 at 10:26am
	I think both lanes in HOV should be fast lanes....... vroom.........no poking aloud!.........

Subaru Members Profile Find Members Posts New Slug Joined: 19 May 2004 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Subaru Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 2004 at 11:35am
	I agree. Its really bugs me about people just sitting in that lane and then they think its cool to sit NEXT to someone so you can go either way. I have been in cars where the driver does this and I just want to slap them. Normally its a soccer mom in a van chit chatting to her friend. When I went down to FL down I95 in every state people would follow these rules, but as soon as you hit VA. Forget it.