ACS Public Service Announcement for North America

[SlowwHand]

Locate known speed traps in your area, or on your route.
Asher, you paying attention?

http://www.speedtrap.org/speedtraps/stetlist.asp

[Asher]

I've a radar detector hidden in my dash. Yes, I know they're not legal in Ontario.

[SlowwHand]

BUT, being the hell-raiser and scoff law that you are...

[Asher]

They're legal in Alberta. As they should be!

[Riesstiu IV]

Every citizen should obey the posted speed limits. Shame on you.

[Asher]

Doing so constitutes a dangerous obstruction of traffic. I'm regularly passed by cop cars driving without lights/sirens, and I go 30 above the limit.

[Asher]

In fact, you can get ticketed for going the speed limit here.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/678348/posts

Gord Thompson may be the only man in Ontario ever charged under the Highway Traffic Act for obeying the letter of the law. The teacher from Campbellford and another motorist caused a four-kilometre traffic jam on Highway 401 seven years ago by driving side by side at the posted 100 km/h speed limit. They were charged with obstructing traffic and had their licences temporarily suspended.

Weeks earlier, Thompson had been ticketed for going 117 km/h on the same road and staged his slow-motion protest after a judge told him he was breaking the law by going even a kilometre over the posted limit.

“It still kind of gets my blood going,” Thompson said this week. “The number on the [speed limit] sign isn’t the number you’re expected to drive at and no one will tell you what the tolerance actually is.” Thompson’s situation may be the most ludicrous application of Ontario’s speeding laws but it puts into focus what motorists prove with their right feet – that 100 km/h is often too slow for the province’s 400-series highways. A recent study by University of Toronto researcher Baher Abdulhai found every single driver exceeding the speed limit on some stretches of highway that he and graduate student Jaime Abraham studied. His study recommended that the speed limit be raised to a more realistic 130 km/h.

[SlowwHand]

I hate people like him. Left lane is for passing.
If the posted speed limit is "X", you're going "X", but there's a line of cars stacked behind you, MOVE OVER to the slow lane. You are now slow traffic, for right or wrong, it's fact.
Move your ass over.

I had to get that off my chest. Thanks.

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by Asher
Doing so constitutes a dangerous obstruction of traffic. I'm regularly passed by cop cars driving without lights/sirens, and I go 30 above the limit.

So what? Police speed all the time. They get away with it, not much you can do about that.

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Asher
Doing so constitutes a dangerous obstruction of traffic. I'm regularly passed by cop cars driving without lights/sirens, and I go 30 above the limit.

There is nothing wrong with doing the speed limit in the right-hand lane.

[Asher]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I hate people like him. Left lane is for passing.
If the posted speed limit is "X", you're going "X", but there's a line of cars stacked behind you, MOVE OVER to the slow lane. You are now slow traffic, for right or wrong, it's fact.
Move your ass over.

I had to get that off my chest. Thanks.

I fully agree with you, but what this man did was brilliant. He got ticketed for going 117 km/h on the road for speeding (which is largely pretty slow on the 401). So then he drives the speed limit and gets a ticket for that.

If you drive the speed limit, you are an obstacle and get tickets.
If you drive faster than the speed limit, you are speeding and get tickets.

It's ridiculous.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
There is nothing wrong with doing the speed limit in the right-hand lane.

Do you know how many 18-wheelers there are on the roads around here (think Michigan auto plants and JIT manufacturers).

They pass people. The people going 100 km/h in the far right lane are perhaps the most dangerous, because they cause massive trucks to change lanes and pass.

[Riesstiu IV]

Well too bad. There's a reason they build passing lanes, ya know. So that people who wish to drive at a reasonable speed can do so without having impatient drivers tailgating for miles.

[Japher]

round here people don't realize they are "passing" lanes... I think they call them "ride in this lane because I'm an idiot" lanes

[Spec]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV


There is nothing wrong with doing the speed limit in the right-hand lane.

Ummmm, he's right Asher. He didn't say LEFT lane.

Spec.