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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / August 2007Maine/New Hampshire Drivers - who taught them lane discipline???
Just came back from a visit to the Maine/New Hampshire area and drove over several routes, both Interstate and local. I was amazed at how courteous they were and how they did NOT engage in left lane blocking !! Almost without exception they used the left lane to pass slower traffic and then got back in the right lane. How can we spread this to the rest of the country?? Saw no tailgating either or any of the other rude behavior so typical of most of the freeways in the southwest. Oh, here's a clue.... there were VERY few "immigrants" up there. Is there a relationship between their driving and the lack of illegal's and immigrants- I don't know - but I almost never saw anyone driving but old fashioned white people. In fact, even in the fast food restaurants the staff was almost entirely devoid of the barely literate "immigrants" that infest the southwest. It was mostly just white high school kids flipping the burgers. >Just came back from a visit to the Maine/New Hampshire area and drove >over several routes, both Interstate and local. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >literate "immigrants" that infest the southwest. It was mostly just >white high school kids flipping the burgers. The further you get from the equator, the greater the intelligence quotient is for the "average" individual.  SignatureWe're all here because we're not all there. Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein): > >Just came back from a visit to the Maine/New Hampshire area and drove > >over several routes, both Interstate and local. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > The further you get from the equator, the greater the intelligence > quotient is for the "average" individual. You sure about that? Remember, SADDAM is from Colorado, and that's pretty far north, IIRC... SignatureF ools & B umbling I diots > Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein): <snip> >> The further you get from the equator, the greater the intelligence >> quotient is for the "average" individual. > >You sure about that? Remember, SADDAM is from Colorado, and that's >pretty far north, IIRC... Nah, just demonstrating my usual sarcasm. :-) Of course, SADDAM could be an immigrant from South America. :-) That "saying" came from a girlfriend's father from my high school days. We were sitting around shooting the breeze about something when he made that statement (he's from Jersey.) My immediate response was to ask him why he had lived in the south for over half his life, and why he married a southerner. :-) SignatureWe're all here because we're not all there. Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein): > > Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein): > <snip> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Nah, just demonstrating my usual sarcasm. :-) Gotchya.. ;) > Of course, SADDAM could be an immigrant from South America. :-) Wow. A republican, homosexual, jewish, immigrant from Mexico. S&DDAM really gets around, doesn't it. ;-) > That "saying" came from a girlfriend's father from my high school > days. We were sitting around shooting the breeze about something when > he made that statement (he's from Jersey.) He's from Jioseee, eh? Oh, well, nobody's perfect. :-) > My immediate response was to ask him why he had lived in the south for > over half his life, and why he married a southerner. :-) Something I've oft wondered (speaking as the son of ex-Nooooo Yawkahs). Though getting away from the winters comes to mind. That and about 100 years or so of rampant liberalism driving many companies and jobs south.... SignatureN exus of S tupid A ssholes > Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein): >> > Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein): [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Wow. A republican, homosexual, jewish, immigrant from Mexico. S&DDAM >really gets around, doesn't it. ;-) I guess he's trying to follow in his mother's knee-tracks. >> My immediate response was to ask him why he had lived in the south for >> over half his life, and why he married a southerner. :-) [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >years or so of rampant liberalism driving many companies and jobs >south.... Oddly enough, I've known a lot more people from the north who came south, than vice-versa. Can't say as I blame them, considering the winters, but then again our summers aren't so cool. :-) SignatureWe're all here because we're not all there. Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein): > Oddly enough, I've known a lot more people from the north who came > south, than vice-versa. I think the jobs thing has a lot to do with it as companies have moved south where the employment laws and the union situation are more favorable. Note that alot of "foreign," car manufacturers have located assembly and/or parts operations down here in the last decade or so. > Can't say as I blame them, considering the winters, but then again our > summers aren't so cool. :-) Its a trade off. Last month when I was in NY for a few days, the afternoon high was about 85 at the most. When I took off on the AM of the 13th, it was already approaching 90 (with attendant FL humidity) when I got to the airport at 5:30AM. SignatureT otally S tupid A gency > Just came back from a visit to the Maine/New Hampshire area and drove > over several routes, both Interstate and local. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > literate "immigrants" that infest the southwest. It was mostly just > white high school kids flipping the burgers. Interesting observation. I live in NH & work in MA, and find that most do not KRETP. I believe that part of the reason is the way it's taught in the handbook & drivers ed. >From the NH drivers manual: ""Drive in the lane that has the smoothest flow of traffic. Smooth driving allows you to keep more distance between yourself and other drivers. It also helps save you money on gas. If there are three or more lanes going in one direction, the middle lane or lanes are usually the smoothest. The left lane is for drivers who want to go faster, pass or turn left. The right lane is used by drivers who go slower or who are entering or turning off the road." This weekend 95 was a mess with the airshow, and for quite a bit of the time the fastest traffic was in the right lane. I assume it's partially because the left lane was overfilled with people who "wanted to go faster" than the 35-55mph traffic, and the right lane was basically empty since noone wanted "to go slower". I'll admit this weekends observations are based on very little highway driving, I did what I could to stay on the backroads and avoid airshow traffic. > > Just came back from a visit to the Maine/New Hampshire area and drove > > over several routes, both Interstate and local. [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > weekends observations are based on very little highway driving, I did > what I could to stay on the backroads and avoid airshow traffic. I live in NH but am originally from Mass. Huge difference even just between these two states. I drive more aggresively in Mass. than I do in NH mainly because you have to. You'll get run right over down there if you don't. But even here in NH, there are some that stick to the left lane and won't yield even with no cars around. And guess what? Most of the time they're from Mass.! As far as the immigrant thing goes, the O.P couldn't have driven through Manchester or Nashua. He almost would've felt right at home - heh. But up my way further north, there's more of a mix and even then it's not many. (Actually mostly Asians.) The road-ragers I've come across up here are mainly local women - ha! John B. >> Just came back from a visit to the Maine/New Hampshire area and drove >> over several routes, both Interstate and local. [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] >weekends observations are based on very little highway driving, I did >what I could to stay on the backroads and avoid airshow traffic. That's interesting. My original comments were for traffic that was going at normal speeds. There was a stretch of traffic on the Saturday I was there where the road was packed for all 3 to 5 lanes and I made the best headway by staying in the far right lane. Everyone seem to have a bike or a kayak. > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:49:55 -0000, "DanK...@gmail.com" > [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I was generally referring to normal speed traffic as well, but felt the air show traffic was an example of an the behavior I mentioned to an extreme. I find especially during rush hour, all 4 lanes get filled and people have no problem pacing 3rd lane traffic in the 4th lane for miles and miles at or slightly under the posted SL. Admittedly, the farther you go from the MA border or Manchester, the less this stuff happens. Don't discount the bike or kayak as marking a tourist on the weekends. I have a bike or kayak with me most days, and live in NH. Then again, I tend to know when traffic will be grid locked with tourists, and take the back roads those days. |
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