{"id":467568,"date":"2010-03-24T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/24\/report-georgia-to-outlaw-left-lane-slowpokes\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:01:00","slug":"report-georgia-to-outlaw-left-lane-slowpokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/467568","title":{"rendered":"Report: Georgia to outlaw left-lane slowpokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/government-legal\/\" rel=\"tag\">Government\/Legal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.augusta.com\/news\/metro\/2010-03-23\/slowpokes-left-lane-face-fines-under-georgia-bill?v=1269307119\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/slower-traffic.jpg\" \/><\/a>Is there anything more irritating on your morning commute than slow-moving drivers who refuse to extricate themselves from the passing lane? The answer is &#8220;no.&#8221; And so now we may have at least one good reason to consider moving to Georgia&#8230; that&#8217;s if the Senate follows the shining example of the House (the 129-29 vote was passed after just seven minutes of debate) in passing Bill 1047. Says Rep. Mark Butler, (R-Carrollton), who introduced the Bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m alone in saying this, but there are so many times when you&#8217;re alone on a four-lane road, and people will get over in the left-hand lane, which by law is supposed to be used for passing, and will just sit there and use it as their own personal drive-out lane, and they may be going 50 miles per hour. It&#8217;s slowing down traffic. It&#8217;s frustrating.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No Mark, you most certainly are not alone, and it is indeed one of the most frustrating elements of our nation&#8217;s roadways. Though it&#8217;s technically already a law that slowpokes must move out of the far-left lane, it&#8217;s rarely enforced. This Bill would seek to change all of that with a way to accurately record how many such tickets are handed out each year.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Senate: The ball is officially in your court. Don&#8217;t let your constituency down.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.augusta.com\/news\/metro\/2010-03-23\/slowpokes-left-lane-face-fines-under-georgia-bill?v=1269307119\">The Augusta Chronicle<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5500593\/\">Jalopnik<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/24\/report-georgia-to-outlaw-left-lane-slowpokes\/\">Report: Georgia to outlaw left-lane slowpokes<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:01:00 EST.  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