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Originally Posted by Zarley
I don't understand why this is even a debate regarding this. If you are in the left lane and there is a wide open space on your right, you are a poor driver. The relative speed of anyone else on the road has nothing to do with it.
Also, Highway 1 west between Calgary and Banff seems to be the worst place for this in Canada. I'm not sure if it's city folk who don't know how to drive on the highway heading to the mountains or tourists in rental cars clogging the road, but man that is a frustrating stretch of road.
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Volume of traffic combined with bad drivers. I just drove this stretch on Saturday and it was bumper to bumper.
When the traffic has very few gaps you get a line of 10 cars in the left lane who want to at least do the speed limit, but are stuck behind some struggler somewhere up ahead. The right lane is bumper to bumper semi trailers, campers and tourists doing 100km in the 110km. This is when you get the raging lunitic coming up behind you, flashing his lights and weaving because he thinks the 10 cars ahead of him are just being ignorant and are choosing to drive 105km in the 110km.
This is where I'm not moving over. None of the cars 2-9 have moved over for the guy behind them, because we all want to go 20+ km faster. Wait your spot in the group until the struggler clears and we can all speed up and start moving over at the appropriate speeds and time.