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I’m on the 102 this morning, and there was a slow moving vehicle in the slow lane. So everyone changes over to the fast lane. Dorky, 12 cars in front of me, decides to perform the 10 minute pass. The problem with this? There is only 12 minutes of highway, and 2 of them are behind me. —Singing the Blues
This article appears in Apr 18-24, 2013.
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The region between Truro and Halifax is a nightmare. Everyone going 90 in the right hand lane and going 140 in the passing lane. The increase in traffic through there over the last number of years is crazy… just another advantage to the sprawl of HRM 😉
I hate the 10 minute pass….
I’m pretty sure they’re more common now because of cruise control and the subtle little difference in speed set and the driver just not bothering to want to reset it up and then back down again.
Lazy people fucking with your day…. grrrrrrrr……
As a cyclist all of my passes take ten minutes. I don’t pass many so temper’s never flair.
I got your back.
Hell, I drive the 102 all the time…”everyone” driving 90 in the slow lane? I don’t fucking think so, the normal speed there has been 100-110 for like forever. Almost the only time you’ve got someone genuinely slow on the right is a loaded truck on a hill or coming out of scales.
The only place I’ve seen fairly common slow speeds is the last few klicks near Fall River, where 118 breaks off. Reason for this is precisely passers doing retarded, dangerous shit to get past people.
I’ve seen plenty of slow passes. Almost all the time when this happens the car being passed is already doing at least the speed limit. Which means that the person doing the “slow” pass is actually speeding, albeit maybe only at 115 or 120, and it also means that the cars stacked up behind the “slow” passer *really* want to speed, like 120 or 130.
I understand, all of y’all – OP and first couple of respondents – you guys are all in that 1 percent that don’t ever speed.