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Left lane regulations already in place

Regularly you hear something new that amazes and astonishes you. But in my opinion B.C.’s new left lane law takes the cake.

Dear Editor:

Regularly you hear something new that amazes and astonishes you. But in my opinion B.C.’s new left lane law takes the cake.

Every day I see drivers talking on cell phones and/or texting, people are dying all over the country because of this, it gets worse by the day and nothing is being done about it.

Why, apparently because the transportation minister is busy making new laws to accommodate tailgaters and speeders.

Our new left lane law effectively makes every highway in B. C. with a speed limit of 80 kilometres an hour or more a one lane highway. Good thing we spent billions of dollars widening so many roads to four lanes. Perhaps we should have saved the money and left them alone.

I have read many comments online and elsewhere and I must say most people agree with the new law. However, there was already a law on the books to cover people driving in the left lane, if travelling below the speed limit, which was seldom ever enforced.

So instead of enforcing that law, or cracking down on speeders or tailgaters (both of which are illegal, by the way) let’s just clear the way so they can travel whatever speed they feel like.

When did breaking the law (any law) become okay?

I guess upping the speed limit on the Coquihalla to 120 km/h still didn’t do it for some so let’s clear the way for the 140/150 km/h types so they can fly by us and of course cut right in front of us spraying gravel all over our windshields, because, after all, it is illegal for them to stay in that lane until they are safely past us, at least that will be their excuse.

I can only imagine what the driving habits of the government officials who decided on this one must be.

Funny how whether or not you are doing the speed limit has no bearing on this new law whatsoever, just get out of the speeders way.

The irony of it is that it carries the exact same penalty as the distracted driver law that is killing so many and is rarely enforced, go figure.

I can hardly wait to see how this one plays out in court.

Keith Quesnelle

Summerland