10-13-16 18:34 Daryl Stout wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Expressway Driving
Howdy! Daryl,

 DS> {at}MSGID: 
 DS> Ed,

 EV{at}> This morning I had an appointment in Louisville, KY and as I was
 EV{at}> driving on the Expressway at the posted speed limit, I noticed the
 EV{at}> majority of the traffic that was behind me, was passing me like I was
 EV{at}> stand still.

 EV{at}> I thought this, "Those people are wanting to get to the work place that
 EV{at}> they always gripe about as fast as they can."

 EV{at}> I retired almost 20 years ago, but that is what I thought about today.

 DS>   I thought SPEED LIMIT ## meant that you do not go faster than ## MPH,
 DS> unless you are an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens on...or if

That is My way of thinking also.

 DS> you are passing a slower vehicle.

That reminds me of a Accident I had.
The older pickup truck in front of me only had one taillight and was driving
slower than the limit, so I decided to pass when I saw it was safe to do it.

The pickup truck turned Left in to a driveway as I was going around him.
My car landed in a ditch and had to be pulled out by a wrecker and taken
to a shop to repair it.

 DS>   Yet now, they favor "the flow of traffic" over the
speed limit. I got
 DS> a "warning" from a Little Rock Police Officer one time,
because even
 DS> though I was driving the speed limit, I was in the lane of the freeway
 DS> that would soon end, and I would need to turn left into the road at
 DS> that intersection. Yet, everyone else was passing me like I was sitting
 DS> still.

 DS>   In front of the University Of Arkansas At Little Rock (my college
 DS> alma mater), they have SPEED LIMIT 25 -- if you drive 25 in front of
 DS> there, you'll get run over.

 DS>   In short, I don't know WHY they have speed limits...no one seems to
 DS> obey them.

Thanks for Your comments.

73 de Ed W9ODR   . .


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