Re: [T3] driving laws/styles

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 26 Mar 2004 at 8:02, wfoh8x9 Martinez-Ortiz wrote:

> Has anyone driven in TX, since I work with a government agency I get to 
> travel preety much around the whole united states and Tx has been the state 
> where I said they have the weirdest driving habit. If you are driving on a 
> two lane road and even if you are doing the allowed speed limit a faster 
> moving driver comes behind you the slower driver will occupy the emergency 
> lane to allow the faster moving vehicles to pass. This is a state wide habit 
> and only on two lane roads, althou it seems that is mostly the residents 
> that do it most drivers follow.

I saw this same courtesy many years ago in Wyoming. The emergency lanes were 
wide and nicely paved there, and slower traffic would move over there as you 
say.

I was VERY impressed, and after I saw this behavior demonstrated to me several 
times, I followed suit thereafter.

I can't imagine this happening in many other places.

-- 
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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