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Left-lane drivers: speed up or get a ticket

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http://www.9news.com/news/arti...id=107674&provider=top

DENVER - If you've ever cursed a slow-moving truck or RV in front of you as you're driving into the mountains, House Bill 1042 is for you.
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If passed, anyone going under the limit and blocking more than five other vehicles in the process would be subject to a ticket. The slow driver would be required to pull off the road at the first safe location.

"People can all relate to it because at one time or another they've been in that situation," said Rep. Mike Merrifield (D-Colorado Springs), who authored the proposal. "On those narrow winding roads, I see it happening all the time."

Merrifield said he came up with the idea this summer as he was trying to cross Monarch Pass and became one of 47 vehicles stuck behind an RV which did not pull over at any possible area, even at the top of the pass.

"I'm calling it the 'Courtesy Bill.' Bring courtesy back to Colorado," he said in an interview at the Capitol. "The courteous thing to do is when you have the opportunity, get out of the way."

When the economy is struggling, he wonders what kind of a message a bill like Merrifield's sends to the trucking industry responsible for delivering goods and services all
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Ok, i am getting fricken sick of some politician pulling "the economy" card every day now. :|
 
likely won't be enforced, many states have laws that require you to be passing someone to be in teh left lane. Louisiana just passed one a couple of years ago, but I havn't heard of it being enforced at all.
 
The problem is that it states that to get a ticket they have to be going under the speed limit. I usually see people honking and cursing cars that are going 55 in a 55. That would still be legal. It would be people doing well under the speed limit.
 
Originally posted by: MikeyLSU
likely won't be enforced, many states have laws that require you to be passing someone to be in teh left lane. Louisiana just passed one a couple of years ago, but I havn't heard of it being enforced at all.
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This. They passed one here a few years back and you are more likely to get pulled over for agressive driving if you flash your lights at an idiot left lane camper than the left lane camper is.
 
Originally posted by: jefa
this law would not apply to left lane drivers

article/OP has a misleading title
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OP and everyone who is complaining about left lane drivers are morons...

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oh and they cant read worth sh1t.
 
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