Try Alberta or BC... it seems that NOBODY knows to keep to the right
lane to allow faster traffic to use the left.

>  A great number of drivers now seem to have no familiarity with the concept
> of passing on a normal highway with two way traffic.  They seem absolutely
> baffled by the concept of waiting for a safe sight-distance situation and
> going around a slower vehicle by using the oncoming traffic lane.  I see
> this very often where I travel, as I try to avoid interstates.    So, there
> you are, traveling along at 65mph out in Nevada, Wyoming, Utah...some
> western state with wide open spaces and two lane highways and up comes a
> faster driver behind.   Then they follow you for 10 miles!  I have been
> forced to slow up to about 20mph to encourage a particularly meek driver to
> get his brights out of my mirrors at times.
>  Or, you come up behind a row of vehicles, stuck behind a slower truck or
> car...chance after chance to pass is missed by the clueless car just behind
> the slow vehicle and nobody in the line has the speed or the safe distance
> to get round both the truck and the 'scaredy-cat' or the city fellow who
> doesn't know it is OK to go around slower vehicles....
>  In Baja, Mexico, it's the custom to indicate it's safe for passing by
> putting on your left blinker when someone is behind you and is itching to go
> round.  When you can see ahead that it's clear, you flip on the blinker and
> the fellow goes right round.  If you are going to be turning left off a
> highway, it's customary there (Baja) to pull across the line and turn from
> the oncoming lane so that people headed in your direction don't have to slow
> up while you do your turn..
>  And here in the Northwest, we seem to have more than our share of left
> lane slow drivers on the interstates.  Between Portland and California on
> Interstate 5, I usually encounter about two dozen that I must pass around
> the right side, even in my VW vanagon...
>  Don Hanson
>

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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut
Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada