21 July 2004 Blog Home : July 2004 : Permalink
Baldilocks has noted that a US state - Colorado - has passed a law to forbid travelling in the left-hand lane of a multilane road unless you are overtaking. In my humble opinion this would be better known as "common sense" or "Doh" but I'm sure some stick in the muds will fail to understand what the law means. The VodkaPundit helpfully provides an additional Public Service Announcement:
Drivers of minivans, Volvos, and contractor pickup trucks, as well as old people and women on cell phones -- your attention please. The law covers the entire stretch of I-25 between the North Academy exit in Colorado Springs and Denver's C-470 interchange.
If you're caught dawdling anywhere in that area, I hope a cop puts a ticket so far in your pants, it would make Sandy Berger cringe.
Unfortunately I fear this will not be enough and, since I doubt that Colorado's finest will be able to devote too much time to enforcement, I suggest that the citizens adopt a European approach to persuading the scofflaws that they should consider obeying the law. For that have not had the pleasre to drive the Autobahns, Autoroutes, Autostrade and/or Motorways of the old world, the European approach is as follows:
Note that you do not need to have one of those big fast german automobiles to successfuly pursue this strategy, I have seen it performed by a Renault Twingo on one of those aforementioned german automobiles.