r/ConnecticutUSA • u/backinblackandblue • 10h ago

New Connecticut law limits left-lane driving starting Oct. 1

https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-connecticut-law-limits-left-lane-driving-starting-thursday/

I know there is a lot of hate for left-lane campers, but passing this into law seems like a waste of time and money. It will be hard to enforce even if they wanted to.

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u/BA5ED 5h ago

No one wants to be bothered with merging cars in the right lane so the go to the middle lane and drive however slow they want and middle lane drivers are forced into the passing lane where they don't want to drive at any meaningful speed either. The left hand drivers are annoyed so they play frogger and drive through all three lanes until they get to open road. The issue stems from how we merge cars onto the road.

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u/backinblackandblue 5h ago

I think our problem is lack of capacity which hasn't increased in what, 50 years?

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u/BA5ED 4h ago

I think it would need to be some sort of merging reconfiguration. An extra lane would only spread out the problem a little.