"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
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"Kim W5TIT" wrote:
"Dwight Stewart" wrote:

Minimum Speed Limit:
I. No person shall drive so slowly
as to impede the normal and
reasonable movement of traffic.
Tran. Code §545.363(a)
II. A person, driving at less than the
normal speed of traffic, shall drive in
the right-hand lane then available for
traffic or as close as practicable to
the right-hand curb or edge of the
roadway. Tran. Code §545.051(b)

Cool. I'll check that website out. However,
the two above put me legal driving in the left
lane--since I am traveling at the speed that
the *majority* of drivers are driving in the
left hand lane, which makes *that* the flow
of traffic--with the people desiring to blast
passed all of us in the wrong; they are going
against the flow (at least in my opinion).


If that interpretation were really true, the slowest vehicle in the left
lane would set the flow of traffic (even if only ten mph) since all the
others behind that vehicle are now going the same speed. Clearly, there is
something wrong with that interpretation, isn't there? In reality, if
there
are two or three vehicles behind you who want to go faster, you're
impeding
the flow of traffic.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/


Well, guess so...however, 40 MPH is the minimum speed limit on some roads...

Oh, and as to JJ's claim (backed up with a commentary Giggle from a
newspaper) that the left lane is for passing only? Well, my hubby and I
have been extensively searching for this in the Texas Code and haven't found
it yet. Then, there's the signs that currently say "slower traffic keep
right" that are supposedly all over the place and being replaced with "left
lane for passing only." I checked my whole route yesterday and there's not
a sign to be seen--of any type--indicating anything about lane travel. So,
I called some folks who I knew were traveling up from Aransus. The saw one
sign all the way up from there that say "slower traffic keep right."

I was also contemplating the safety of having a traffic law that would apply
to all highway travel...and it would really impede traffic. There are so
many people getting on and off on the highways in the core area of the
metroplex; as well as so many left lane exits for other highways and
streets, that if the left lane were truly for passing only, one may as well
pack a boxed lunch to get to work.

I think JJ's leg's been pulled.

Kim W5TIT