Slow drivers because of gas prices

Lack of Highway deaths, especially single occupant ones is a good metric of “speed reduction “ as far as I can tell they aren’t going down.

 

i haven't seen any speed traps around here in years.it's almost like a conspiracy, i don't think cops like pulling people over anymore.

 

the only police in Pennsylvania authorized to use radar guns are the State Police.

Consequently, one must work to get cited for speeding.

Last year the state senate passed a bill to let local police use them but it hasn't cleared the house.

 

A typical highway here is 70mph max, but the minimum speed here is 45mph. That being said, there are far fewer people who go below the minimum limit than people going over the max limit.

I agree. I just did a ~300 miles trip on I-95 (70mph max). I was trying to get the best mileage but struggled to keep my car not falling under the minimum limit of 45mph. I ended up going between 55 and 65mph. I had absolutely no car that was going slower than my car. Ended up getting 78mpg on my trip though.

 

Always? Not here, unless one is DUI or otherwise doesn't care about head-on collision risk. We have plenty of roads and traffic conditions where passing isn't safe for fairly significant distances.

(a) I haven't noticed any traffic slowdown since fuel prices spiked. And that includes the entirety of a month long ski road trip covering 10 states. And while I did drive slower than average, it wasn't in our Prius.

(b) 20+ cars behind? Here, when driving slow (and speed limit doesn't count as slow), drivers are required to take turn-outs to let faster traffic pass if holding up more than 5 vehicles. An adjacent state has a limit of 3. Though I don't see it enforced -- or much of anything enforced since the start of the pandemic -- it is unusual to see greatly larger backups.

On the above trip, Google Maps selected a segment where we encountered no other vehicles going our direction, faster or slower, for 115 miles. Less than two dozen going the other way. A significant gravel section in the middle probably dissuaded most other travelers and GPS routers -- Garmin kept protesting until after the midpoint -- but it turned out to be a very nice route. The gravel segment was excellent by gravel standards, and the scenic benefits were worth it.

 

Many complaints about being blocked on a "passing lane". I told my co-worker even a passing lane has a speed limit. He flared up and I guess he took it pretty bad and said "its a passing lane!" Well I told him that the photo radar will justify if youre in the right speed over any lane.

 

Executive decision-making provides the edge. Be informed. Act accordingly.

 

I'm guessing that he is going more by wishful thinking than by the actual wording of the state law.

 

Yeah, my 3 speeding citations were all issued before I was 26 if I remember right, and I worked pretty hard at it in those days.

 

Not to say anything against someone. In California that's the way how people drives. They shove their car in front of anyone since its their right of way. Even on an intersection, they will block the middle until the light turns red. so the green light wont be able to pass now. A lot of rubber necking. Last time I was in 405 N Westwood. that's like a 4 lane. A guy in the right shoulder was changing tires. and that caused a 1.5 mile traffic. That's one of the reason why theyre traffic is jammed. Here in OREGUN we have 0 tolerance for those actions.