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Is it okay to stay in the passing lane on I-66/I-495 in stop-and-go(10mph) traffic, or should you move over?
Posted by: Geoge ()
Date: April 18, 2008 10:17PM

Is it okay to stay in the passing lane on I-66/I-495 in stop-and-go(10mph) traffic, or should you move over?

If there's only light traffic, I always get out of the passing lane, if I see
a car coming up behind me at a faster speed. It's just common courtesy.

However, what if the traffic is real heavy... stop-and-go at 10mph or so.
Should you stay in the passing lane alone with thousands of other cars...
or not?

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Re: Is it okay to stay in the passing lane on I-66/I-495 in stop-and-go(10mph) traffic, or should you move over?
Posted by: SBS ()
Date: April 18, 2008 11:02PM

If you're immediately (as in close) behind the car in front of you, then you are not impeding traffic. In rush hour conditions like you describe, it basically ceases to be a passing lane. If it's that bad using all 4 lanes, imagine what it would be like if everyone avoided the left lane, then there would be in effect only 3 lanes.

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Re: Is it okay to stay in the passing lane on I-66/I-495 in stop-and-go(10mph) traffic, or should you move over?
Posted by: novanative ()
Date: April 21, 2008 10:15PM

as long as you aren't slowing me down aka in my way, do what you want

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Re: Is it okay to stay in the passing lane on I-66/I-495 in stop-and-go(10mph) traffic, or should you move over?
Posted by: dark ()
Date: April 21, 2008 10:39PM

SBS Wrote:
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> If you're immediately (as in close) behind the car
> in front of you, then you are not impeding
> traffic. In rush hour conditions like you
> describe, it basically ceases to be a passing
> lane. If it's that bad using all 4 lanes, imagine
> what it would be like if everyone avoided the left
> lane, then there would be in effect only 3 lanes.


I agree with this.

If you are within normal safe following distance of the next car ahead of you it's ok to stay in the lane. However, if you are on 395S in the seperated HOV lanes (speed limit 65) and you drive 60mph in the left lane, you can rot in hell. It boggles my mind why people consciously choose to drive the HOV lanes, with a higher speed limit, and then they insist on driving slower than the limit.

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