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- From: josh@Happy-Man.com (Joshua_Putnam)
- Subject: Re: Why CAN'T people drive 55?!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.215341.1935@Happy-Man.com>
- Reply-To: Joshua_Putnam@happy-man.com
- Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399
- References: <3040@uswnvg.uswnvg.com> <1992Dec30.051543.13868@neopath.wa.com> <1849@rwing.UUCP> <1992Dec30.194123.24106@eskimo.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:53:41 GMT
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- In <1992Dec30.194123.24106@eskimo.com> alpinist@eskimo.com (David Butler) writes:
-
- >The fact that the freeways were origionally designed for 70 mph is often
- >mentioned but what is ignored is that was for the traffic levels of over
- >20 years ago.
-
- While it's true congestion is much higher in urban areas than 20 years
- ago, in rural areas the traffic level has not increased nearly as
- much as vehicle designs have improved. The interstates were
- designed when my 17-foot-long, under-braked 1965 station wagon
- was a typical car. This could help explain why accident rates
- have gone down in rural areas using the 65 limit.
-
- >Yes, if more than 5 cars are behind you on any single lane road in
- >Washington (even though only a few roads are marked) you are required
- >to pull over and let them by. This is the law.
-
- Close. It's really 5 or more cars, where passing is unsafe, and
- only when it's safe to pull off. Specifically,
-
- RCW 46.61.427 Slow moving vehicle to pull off roadway.
- On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of
- traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, a slow
- moving vehicle, behind which five or more vehicles are formed
- in a line, shall turn off the roadway wherever sufficient area
- for a safe turn-out exists, in order to permit the vehicles
- following to proceed. As used in this section a slow moving
- vehicle is one which is proceeding at a rate of speed less
- than the normal flow of traffic at the particular time and
- place.
-
- As noted earlier, "slow moving" is independent of the legal speed
- limit unless most drivers obey the limit.
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