36 — Fricay, September 11, 1998 — North Shore News
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Slow drivers: Do
it on the rignt!

STICKING to the
highway theme we
started. a couple of
weeks back, it seems
some people are just

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slow.

This is not the first time
this subject has becn cov-
ered and it probably will not
be the last, bur it scems at
least a few readers are not
clucing into the fact chat
highway driving has specific
tules and regulations.

Highways usually inchide
a fast Jane — sometimes
referred to as a passing lane
—and a slow lane. Basically
stated, slow drivers are
required to drive in the slow
lanc, which is usually the
right-hand or centre lane,
while faster drivers, drivers
overtaking slower drivers,
are required to use the fast
Jane, the left lane.

Fast Lane, by the way, is
not defined in the mighty
Motor Vehicle Act; it is
merely an. invented descrip-
tive meaning “not tne slow
fone” (and an intense way of
life according to an Eagles’
song).

The Upper Levels
Highway (Trans Canada,
Highway 1) here on the
North Shore is an east-to-
west connection that links
Horseshoe Bay with the
Second Narrows Bridge. It
maintains two, sometimes
three lanes of travct in each
ditection.

It is not broken by any
eae a Some of the
regulatory signs on the
Upper Levels read, “Slower

ic keep right.” ’ These
signs consistently appear fur-

signals

ther up the coastlines (to
Squamish or the Sunshine
Coast, for example). Further
signs read “keep right
except to pass.” At no time
do signs ever read “speedy
folks usc the left lane.”

So you see, there is an
onus on slower vehicles to
keep to the right. “Slower
than what?” esks you.
Slower than anyone around
you, responds Shaun.

ff my rocker? I think
not. The mighty Moter
Vehicle Act describes “slow-
er” as “the driver of a vehi-
cle proceeding at'less than
normal epeed of traffic.”

So what’s normal? I
don’t want to argue meta-
physics nor does the Act. It
sutfices to say that normal
speed is what the majority of

rivers are doing and abnor-
mal is slower chan average.

If you travel atthe speed
limit but every other driver
around you is exceeding the
speed limit (thereby break-
ing the law) you are in error
if you do not keep to the
right.

Traffic has a natural ten-
dency to exceed the speed
limit to a certain degree,
police are aware of this and
wil} set a grace zone at

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