"Passing lanes" only exist on controlled-access highways, like where there are entrance and exit ramps, usually always on the right. Then passing is supposed to be done only on the right.
Anywhere else traffic can start and stop for any reason as cars need to turn off at different points on the road. Especially in the city. The guy wasn't in any passing lane dodging unexpected slowdowns, he was just going too fast for the traffic he was in.
Sorry, just saw this now after I got back from the Greater Transportation Agony for a Christmas/New Year's Celebration.Baggsy will argue to no end that passing must always be done on the left and that if you're in the left lane for more than a few secs regardless of where you're driving, you're violating his rule.
From what I remember, Baggsy lives in a pretty rural area (could be wrong) where there is barely any traffic and roads are typically 80km/h. If this is the case, I would wholeheartedly agree that people should not be in the left lane unless passing (or at least move out of the way for faster traffic), but in the city, it simply doesn't work.
In regards to this video, someone could have simply been turning left in to that small street thus the stop/slowdown in the left lane.
Edit: Upon further review, it does look like this was the case at 0:07...
I don't know I think when a jp or a judge sees this footage they will tell you to take a walk. I do this kinda thing all the time and it kinda ****** me off watching you do it. Imagine what someone who waits at the back of the line will think when they watch this.[video=youtube;x7h50PL6hlU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7h50PL6hlU&feature=youtu.be[/video]
I'm just explaining the way people use the roads today. It's not unusual that the informal rules of the roads may have been different decades ago, because... change. But unless you drive a time machine, those lessons aren't going to be very useful to you on the roads today.Not sure if fastar1 was joking with his comment, or if he has Gerstmann's Syndrome.
I'm just explaining the way people use the roads today. It's not unusual that the informal rules of the roads may have been different decades ago, because... change. But unless you drive a time machine, those lessons aren't going to be very useful to you on the roads today.
In fact if you insist on holding on to your own individual driving ethics in spite of what everyone else is doing on the roads we all share, you're only going to cause yourself unnecessary aggravation and stress. This is exemplified by your use of insults against myself and the whole GTA. Insults are a tool people typically use to resolve troubling questions that cause cognitive dissonance when they don't have a rational argument to support their different viewpoint. I mean it's all good and fine to have a different opinion if you have a reason for it, but if that reason is "everyone else is dumb and I'm smart" you're probably being dishonest with yourself.
[video=youtube;LhRzgPrFKlk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhRzgPrFKlk[/video]
...and the person with the camera just let's them drive away WTF :angry1: