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Originally Posted by InvisiBill
It sounds like everywhere else is a bunch of idiots when it comes to painting lines... I can't remember a single time that I've seen a solid line around here that wasn't warranted.
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It has gotten a little silly in California. Many areas that had plenty of passing zones as recently as a few years ago, are now painted over with solid lines. This is very noticeable on Highway 1. There are now stretches of 10+ miles without a passing zone, on a two-lane road frequented by RVs going 35 mph in a 55 zone. Motorcylists don't stay behind such RVs forever on this road, regardless of the now-solid lines. California does have a law on the books that if 5 vehicles are bunched up behind you, you are obligated to pull over to let faster traffic pass. Seeing someone actually understand or obey that particular law is even rarer than the remaining passing zones, unfortunately. (end result is that both vehicles are then breaking the law; the one holding up traffic and the one passing over a solid line)
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/di...le=21650-21664
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21656. On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of
traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, a slow-moving
vehicle, including a passenger vehicle, behind which five or more
vehicles are formed in line, shall turn off the roadway at the
nearest place designated as a turnout by signs erected by the
authority having jurisdiction over the highway, or wherever
sufficient area for a safe turnout exists, in order to permit the
vehicles following it to proceed. As used in this section a
slow-moving vehicle is one which is proceeding at a rate of speed
less than the normal flow of traffic at the particular time and
place.
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