"JJ" wrote in message
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Dee D. Flint wrote:

"JJ" wrote in message
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Kim W5TIT wrote:


Simple 'nuff, find a *LAW* and I'll accept that it is illegal to drive

in

left lanes, otherwise, you're allowing yourself to be impressioned for

the

benefit of winning a side to an argument--which, of course, I am also.
Seems I'm winning, though...

Not so fast tits.


Law, JJ, not suggestions, not a manual, not
someone's (as in the circumstance with your submitted commentary)
interpretation, but law.

Here is the response I received from Bud Kennedy, the author of the

article.

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your note.

Your friend obviously thinks she knows everything, so she probably will
think she knows more than the law or the DPS. - (boy does he have you
pegged - jj)

I quoted the law in the column. It's from 545.051 --

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statu...tr0054500.html

+(b) An operator of a vehicle on a roadway moving more slowly than the
normal speed of other vehicles at the time and place under the existing
conditions shall drive in the right-hand lane available for vehicles, or
as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway,
unless the operator is:

+(1) passing another vehicle; or
+(2) preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road
or driveway.

This law is not defined by the speed limit. It is defined by the "normal
speed of other vehicles."

In other words, if you're driving slower than other drivers, you "shall"
move over.

Write again or anytime

--Bud



Well Kim has several times stated that she was driving at the normal
speed
of the other drivers in the lane. So your quotation makes Kim correct.
That a single individual wants to drive much faster than the rest of the
traffic does not make Kim wrong for not moving. She may or may not be
unwise depending on the overall circumstances but from this quotation is
not
doing anything illegal.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

It should be obvious to the most casual of observers that if you are in
the left lane and other traffic is attempting to go faster than you are,
even if you are driving the normal speed, speeding, or whatever, you are
obliged to move to the right lane to let the faster traffic pass. That
is stated pretty plainly. Even if you are going the same speed of the
vehicles in the right lane, you cannot block faster traffic in the left
lane. The law states that the operator of a moving vehicle "*shall*
drive in the *right* hand lane unless the operator is: (1)passing
another vehicle." Pretty plain, if you are in the left lane and going
the same speed as vehicles in the right, then you are not passing, so
you are obliged to move to the right.
I bet that if kimmygirl is in the left lane and approaches a slower
vehicle in that lane she certainly expects them to move over so she can
speed on her merry way.


You are being deliberately obtuse. Kim repeatedly stated that she was going
the same speed as the other cars in the lane that she was in not the lanes
to her right. She was going with the normal flow of traffic in the lane she
was in. It should be obvious to the most casual observer that she was not
blocking traffic in the left lane as she was going at the speed of the
traffic in that lane. That ONE car tries to force her to move over does not
constitute impeding the flow of traffic as the blockhead that is trying to
get her to move over will have to attempt the same maneuver with all the
other cars in the lane.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE