"Keep Left Unless Overtaking"

[turbotom]

I am very much of the view of free flow of traffic, very much like the way the HWP in the USA police their multi lane freeways.

So Plonky,

How would you react to the imbeciles who drive at 95 kph on the highways when there is NO overtaking opportunity, and then speed up on the sections WITH overtaking lanes, only to slow down in front of you to 95 kph whan it's a single lane again.

If I was overtaking at a speed of 120~125 kph to get past him on the overtaking lane, would you book me?

Would my explanation warrant any sympathy?

Of course, I wouldn't really do this..... (If I noticed you, that is) :lol:

[JB]

I am very much of the view of free flow of traffic, very much like the way the HWP in the USA police their multi lane freeways.

Exactly! Could not agree more. There is nothing more frustrating than travelling down the freeway behind 6 cars and the one at the front is holding everyone up. I honestly believe that the traffic flow would be alot better if everyone applied this rule.

Plonky have they ever had a Blitz on this sort of thing?

[OwnaXR6T]

I think they need to take the double demirit points off speeding and put it on the right hand lane hog offence, Its impatience caused by morons that don't drive efficiently that is the real danger not doing 6km over speed limit.

[Buf-Phoon]

White XR....not dissimiar to unmarked ECILOP vehicles.

So almost every one is very polite to me, especially on Blue shirt days.. :lol:

Ditto, particularly when driving interstate.Doesnt require a blue shirt either

[Blown BA]

Is Keep Left Unless Overtaking actual law?

JB... it means keep left l'm overtaking :lol:

[JB]

White XR....not dissimiar to unmarked ECILOP vehicles.

So almost every one is very polite to me, especially on Blue shirt days.. :lol:

Ditto, particularly when driving interstate.Doesnt require a blue shirt either

Just another benefit of WWWD! :lol:

[ducatijb]

The worse offenders are women, I'm not being sexist, just stating a frequent observation.

Like to see you say that with EID around Al

[justind]

Having spent many years driving in Europe I have to say this is one of my pet hates as well. If eveyone followed the Keep left unless overtaking rule roads such as the Hume could have the speed limits safely increased to 120-130km/h. This and the no undertaking (overtaking from the left lane as the PR$CK in the right hand lane won't move over) we would all notice a sharp decline in accidents/frustration/speeding and a host of other things. I personally think the majority of road users here in Austarlia needs to go back to a driving school and start again.

Some one once said to me if there weren't so many d$ckh**ds on the road there would be no need for any speed limits.

The simple truth is if everyone drove according to the conditions(trafic/weather/road surface/time of day etc) and had a mutual respect for others on the road there would be no need for any speed limits anywhere.

The amount of accidents I have seen particularly on country roads which are attributed to speed actually come down to someone seeing a 100km/h signpost and the driver trying to do 100km/h on road surfaces/corners that cannot be done at those speeds.

Speed doesn't kill it is the drivers lack of respect for all of the above that does it.

If you think about it I don't think I have seen one "Speed Kills" ad that really is attributed to the speed. Most of them come down to neglagence from the driver. From one of the first I remember where someone kills a man in the emergancy lane(what has speed got to do with that they souldn't be there) to the one where the driver swerves to miss a dog and kills a kid(again what has the speed got to do with that.) The kid shouldn't have been on the road. Vic road law states you should not swerve to miss animals. I just don't see how you can blame the speed when the drivers were clearly doing the wrong thing.

[GlennAUII]

In WA it is law to keep left unless overtaking. They had a blitz once, guess what.... people kept left. But unfortunately the blitz ended and now people drive in the RH lane below the limit.

The worse offenders are women, I'm not being sexist, just stating a frequent observation.

One thing but, when they see the GT bulge and menacing front bumper coming up in their rear view mirror nearly all the slug bludgers pull over rather sharply!!

I reckon the main offenders are those in sh*t old cars who try to overtake people and by the time they do it the lane ends. bloody annoying!

[plonky]

It's the attitude of Australian drivers that gets me.

If anyone has been in Asia and see how crazy they are on the road, you will realise that even though there is a lot of overtaking, horn blowing, pushing in etc, it is tolerated because each other driver knows that he will do it to someone else later that day.

Australian drivers have a poor attitude because they al think they can drive like Michael Schumacher and object to someone else passing them so they block the lane.

Most people in this country couldn't drive a finger up their own bum let alone a stick up a dogs bum.

There has never been an enforcement on the 'Keep Left Unless Overtaking" rule, though I have seen RTA cameras being trialled on Sydney roads to enforce the "Bus Lane Only" rule.

Keep Left Unless Overtaking just seems to be too hard to police for most cops, particularly when a lot of them don;t realise that it is an offence and they don't know how to prove the offence.