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Date:         Fri, 17 Nov 1995 14:51:06 -0800
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Pat.Spragge@wj.com
Subject:      Re[2]: Which is the outside lane?

I thought the question was:"Which is the outside lane?", not, which is the fast/slow lane.

Pat S.

______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Which is the outside lane? Author: Joel Walker <JWALKER@ua1vm.ua.edu> at INTERNET Date: 11/17/95 4:30 PM

On Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:21:17 -0600 Neil Wigley said: >So here's a Friday question: >Which is the outside lane? The fast one? The slow one?

i always was told/brainwashed that the lane next fartherest away from the median (the center strip of the multi-lane bi-directional highway) was the SLOWEST lane. the lane closest to the median was the FASTEST lane.

this was supposedly to allow for the best-of-all-possible-worlds where ALL exit ramps exited off the slow lanes (away from the median).

unfortunately, the american theory of high-speed highways has become very muddled in politics and money ("There's never enough money or time to do it right the first time, but there's ALWAYS enough money and time to do it over!")

the lanes between the slow and fast lanes are medium-speed lanes for people who can't make up their minds. :)

now ... you drive like that in Atlanta or Chicago, and you will be run over .. reminds me of Saigon traffic: two paved lanes of highway, five streams of traffic, seemingly all going in different directions!! and God help you in the traffic circles!!!!

joel "didn't we pass that statue a minute ago???"


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