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Interstate 5 between California Highway 99 and Interstate 580 is my least favorite stretch of road. Two lanes in each directions, sanctimonious bird brains drive speed limit or below in the fast lane and very rarely pull into the slow lane which is mostly trucks and drivers that would ordinarily drive the fast lane on a normal highway. Effectively, the fast lane is the slow lane and the slow lane is the fast lane, except for the slow moving trucks in the "fast lane". Because of this peculiar arrangement large groups of cars get flocked together. To maintain a decent rate of speed, one has to dart back and forth between lanes to not get caught behind the trucks in the right lane or slow cars in the left lane. This is tiring and maddening, especially it would be completely unnecessary if folks would drive the way they are supposed to, that is, to drive in the slow lane unless passing, especially if someone is coming up behind driving 10 MPH or more faster. The worst part of this is that this stretch of road, bad behavior lasts for 230 miles! |
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