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Started by sgrizzle, January 10, 2008, 12:17:21 PM

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tulsascoot

This all sounds great to me. The ticketing issue is more directed toward driving outside of the city, when it should be enforced. It doesn't really apply to heavy city traffic.

I've had the good fortune to drive across Germany, and it is wonderful to have the highways moving in such an orderly manner. Left lane is only for passing, passing on the right is illegal and doesn't happen. All drivers give up their lane for faster moving traffic. Everyone drives in the right lane, and moves to the left only long enough to pass, and then immediately back to the right.

Everything works there so much better, and with no speed limit in many parts!!!!!

Our driving instruction and schooling should be a rigorous as the Germans.
 

Hoss

Quote from: rwarn17588 on December 23, 2009, 08:29:21 PM
Ambiguity, hell. This is just common sense.

If you've got a lot of cars in the right lanes and there's one of those awful merge areas on I-44, you'd better move over into the open left lanes to better facilitate the flow of traffic. Being a purist about a law means you're going to end up in a wreck or, worse, a fatality.

I dislike left-lane squatters as much as the next person. But you'd better put some wiggle room in the law, or else you're going to give fascist troopers even more of a chance at getting their jollies.

Especially on those two exits on 244 where some genius decided left exits would be a good idea.  I know ALOT of out-of-town friends who do a lot of traveling who are baffled by that configuration.  Even the highway geeks (search on the internet, they're everywhere) scratch their heads about that.  And I live down the street from them, so I used them as I was growing up and was under the notion they might be semi-normal.  I moved to Houston and realized that wasn't going to be the case.

Also it's time for ODOT to reconfigure the BA/169 interchange to a four level flyover.  Cloverleafs are way too dangerous there.  Same could be said for the BA/Skelly interchange.

Red Arrow

Quote from: tulsascoot on December 25, 2009, 08:27:30 PM

Our driving instruction and schooling should be a rigorous as the Germans.

The cost of the training would eliminate too many financially challenged people and then determined to be illegal discrimination.

Too many Americans could probably not pass the driver's test even after training.

The other thing Americans are missing is a willingness to follow the "rules" after they get their training. 

I too was able to drive the Autobahns in 1995.  Wonderful experience.
 

Conan71

As I was driving in on the Turner coming in from OKC this morning, I had to bright the guy in front of me in the left lane twice before he finally pulled his cell phone from his ear and got over to the right lane after we passed a semi.  He'd been in the left lane for miles.  I can only assume he was lost in cell phone la-la land and forgot he was driving.
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Red Arrow

Quote from: Conan71 on December 28, 2009, 10:49:31 AM
As I was driving in on the Turner coming in from OKC this morning, I had to bright the guy in front of me in the left lane twice before he finally pulled his cell phone from his ear and got over to the right lane after we passed a semi.  He'd been in the left lane for miles.  I can only assume he was lost in cell phone la-la land and forgot he was driving.

I've given up on Linksfahrers and pass on the right.  I don't like it but it's usually the only way to get around them.
 

Ed W

Ah, Oklahoma, where ALL the drivers are above average!

(With apologies to Garrison Keillor.)
Ed

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