Posted On: August 25, 2006, 3:51 pm CDT

Posted By: Geoff Montgomery

Mr Duffman, you never addressed my point. If one slow old man, or drunk lady, or cowardly driver, is driving 40 in a 55, then till the end of time, I promise you, the 20 cars following behind will attempt to make a pass. Some legal, some not, some safely, some not. That will never change. As you apparently are not aware, there are traffic laws currently on the books that were derived from the same study I quoted from. Thus, you will see a minimum speed limit on many roads.

Also, it has always been illegal to slow and disrupt the flow of traffic. How can you dispute the fact that 100 cars going 55 miles per hour on a rd, is more safe than 99 cars going 55 with one car going 45 screwing things up? How many years have you studied these issues? In urban planning this is old hat to us, im not saying anything new or controversial. Slow cars are dangerous, and enforcing a 55 mph speed limit on millions of cars has never worked!! Go after the few weak and feeble drivers that screw things up for the rest of us.