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Originally Posted by Locke
I just wanted to touch on this as someone who has done a ton of driving this summer:
I agree that I see it as more prevalent in Alberta, but I find that this has more to do with the fact that we have some of the longer stretches of dual-lane divided highway in the country, especially when you're comparing it to BC.
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I think this is a worse problem among Albertans for two reasons:
1) Alberta has a much higher proportion of dbags who drive 140 or over on the highway, and act like it's their entitlement to drive that fast unimpeded until a cop shows up. This is my experience in highway driving in BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Idaho, Washington, and Montana. I usually drive 120-125 and in just about the only instances where I pass and someone comes out of nowhere driving 140-150 behind me and gets impatient about my pass seem to involve Alberta plates. That's not to say I do not encounter non-Alberta drivers driving that fast, it's just they seem to be more patient regarding passing drivers in front of them.
2)Alberta has a high population of sanctimonious law and order types. In their eyes the law provides a good guidance to their moral code. It's why somehow in this province we permit photo radar and allow the avails of it's use to be funneled right back into the police budget when other jurisdictions faced public rebellions to the practice ( the 'If you don't break the law, you have nothing to worry about' attitude. So when these law and order types who drive at the speed limit pass in the left hand lane and encounter the 140+ types behind them, they take it as a personal affront to their sense of right and wrong. They either passively aggressively purposely take longer to move over to the right hand lane, or more aggressively simply hog the left lane ('I'm doing 5 over the speed limit after-all, if someone passes me their dangerously speeding).
Combine these two types of people on one roadway and we get the chaos that prompts debates such as this.