On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:08:41 -0700, JJ wrote:

Here is what I found in Chapter 6 of The Texas Driver's Handbook, page
62...quote:

KEEP TO THE RIGHT

NEVER drive on the left half of the road in the following instances:

[snip]

Sounds pretty simple, the right lane is for passing, you should always
keep to the left except for passing.

Huh ?? Comprehension problem? Try "the other left".....

The question wasn't about driving on the left-hand side of the road,
it was about driving on the right-hand side of the center of a road
where traffic flows in both directions, or at the left-hand side of
a one-way road with two or more lanes.

In California traffic engineering practice, numbering starts at the
furthest left-hand lane in each direction and numbering proceeds to
the right - IOW no matter how many lanes of traffic in that
direction, the #1 lane is the "fast" or "inner" or "left-hand" lane
-- still on the right hand side of the road if traffic flows in both
directions and there is a demarcation of where the "center" line is.

This is independent of whether one may drive in the #1 lane except
when passing.

Did I succeed in confusing you further ??

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane