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Date:         Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:49:53 -0500
Reply-To:     Donald Baxter <onanov@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Donald Baxter <onanov@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Diesel powered vanagons - Driving Slow
In-Reply-To:  <5c80974c05092307047592df4f@mail.gmail.com>
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This could be resolved by relentless and consistent law enforcement. As North Americans, we seem to actually think it is our right to drive our cars any way we want: 80 mph, cell phone stuck in ear, watching DVDs, and intimidating persons who come closer to obeying the law.

What other parts of our society do we tolerate this lack of respect for the law?

While this behaviour doesn't stress me out too much when it happens on freeways, the behaviour bleeds out to our urban surface streets and affects pedestrians, cyclists and damages neighborhoods. And yet, we want what we want and many of have no regard for the ill-effects. And those ill effects are very apparent.

For a good recent example about how car-culture damages the culture at large, have a look at Donald Shoup's new book "The High Cost of Free Parking."

On 9/23/05, Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The inside lane on highways outside of metro areas is now for passing > only > > in colorado. You will get ticketed. > > ^^^--- that's how it SHOULD be everywhere, so that when I'm in my van, > I can go at a reasonable pace, and when I'm in my rx7, I can zip > along. > > Speaking of which... I was following my dad to the volvo dealership > (to drop off my sister's car for servicing[sp?]) and he immediately > went to the middle left lane(baltimore 695) and started doing 60mph > (the traffic around us was doing 80+mph) causing all but the drivers > in the far right lane to zip around us. I did get him to move back > over to the right lane, but the damage had been done(micro backup). > The point: If you're going to drive the speed limit, even the middle > lanes are flowing too fast. So, either go with the flow, or move > right. ^.^

-- --------------------------------------------- Donald Baxter 316 Ridgeview Avenue University Heights, Iowa 52246 www.onanov.com <http://www.onanov.com>

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