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Scott en Aztl‡n

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for the most part i agree... but i dunno, it can be pretty hard to get in and get out of the...

Umm, Scott, *not* wrong. H-O-V. "High-Occupancy Vehicle." That *is* the primary purpose of the facility, by its very name, funding and usage. You can't deny this and think you will still be taken seriously.

And if you had not deleted the rest of my paragraph you quoted above, your attempt at disingenuousness would have been only slightly more bald-faced. I also "Rules in many places allow low-polluting or hybrid type vehicles also to use them." Don't point out something to me as if I hadn't already said it.

Besides, the incidental usage of the *HOV* lane by other permitted vehicles does not negate the high-occupancy vehicle as the primary usage. The state would not have built a special lane only for hybrid cars or low-polluting vehicles or for motorcycles. C'mon. The fact that the state allows the excess capacity of the *HOV* lane to be used by non-HOV users does not elevate the hybrid to the level of primary purpose of the lane.

HOV lane behavior... 4445
Scott en Aztl‡n In the very words that name the facility: "High Occupancy Vehicle" lanes. They are set up in legislation for the primary purpose of accommodating vehicles that carry 2, or sometimes 3 or...

Oh, really? Care to cite the language that you think would do that? It's a clbuttic KRETP law.

Your argument is wrong on three counts.

One, nothing in it requires every other driver to speed up to match the fastest driver. Nothing. It says you have to move to the right lane if you are not pbutting. It doesn't say you have to move to the right if someone behind you wants to go faster.

Two, buttuming for a second that this is still an HOV facility we're talking about, unless its two lanes in the same direction, KRETP has no application. Laws typically regard the left-most GP lane as the pbutting lane; an HOV facility that might be to the left of that is a separate roadway with its own rules. It is silly to buttert, as your argument leads to, that a car-pooler *must* exit the HOV lane and return to the right GP lane if it so happens there are few cars to his right in the GP lanes. Yet that is what you're saying by interpreting the CA statute as affecting HOV lanes.

Three, in any case, you *are* in the act of pbutting almost continuously in most HOV lanes I've seen. So KRETP isn't in play; you *are* pbutting. And you are under no legal obligation to drive 90 if the guy behind you wants to go 90.

Hardly. It's more obvious that your atbreastude is MFFY. You expect people doing 75 to get out of your way if you want to do 90. World don't work that way. If I'm already ahead of you, I am not MF; I was already there in the normal course of driving. It's you who wants to push your way ahead with a MFFY atbreastude.

Nope. Says you're wrong.




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