(OT) Increased Speed Limits on Highways

[rbowman]

I had places to go. Nice chat with the cop too. He was from West Virginia and thought Ohio sucked but that was where he could get a job.

[rbowman]

She ain't revved until the rods are thrown...

I used to like Drive BY Truckers but they went all #blackliesmatter. Fuck them.

[rbowman]

I worry about soccer moms with cellphones more than speeders. They're distracted and they're Democrats.

[ChairMan]

its not hard to do if you try : )

[Moe DeLoughan]

I had a neighbor who was p.o.'d because the State Patrol ticketed him on the freeway one evening . . . for going 24 mph. His justification: he's old, it was dark, he was just driving safely. No, grandad, that's what the side streets are for.

[DerbyDad03]

There's a winding section of a highway through downtown where the posted limit is 40 MPH. At one point it's 3 lanes, but the right lane is Exit Only, so the center lane is really the right lane. I was towing a trailer and got stuck behind someone doing 35 MPH in that center lane. People were passing us by pulling out of the center lane to pass us on the left (OK) but also pulling out into the right lane and speeding up to pass us before the lane exited. (Read: Dangerous!) Since I had the trailer, I stayed behind the slow poke until we cleared the 40 MPH zone and then passed her on the left.

I'm sure most of the drivers thought I was causing the problem because they couldn't see around my trailer, but it was the slow-poke in front of me. I could have easily done the 40 MPH or even more since that was what the traffic was trying to do. It even *looked* dangerous when I glanced in the rear view mirror and saw cars pulling out of the center lane to the left and to the right.