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realmadrid111 t1_jamg0jq wrote

Seriously, often the lanes are NOT at all equally safe. You feel like everyone is going too slowly and you want to pass, but that left lane is much more snowy/slushy than the right. Suddenly you're hanging out there needing to speed up quite a bit and pass everyone, but realize that it doesn't feel as safe as it would in the right lane. Pair that with a sweeping right turn and you're suddenly white knuckled, trying not to fly off into the median. Worth it to save a minute or two?

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GaleTheThird t1_jamh5sx wrote

> You feel like everyone is going too slowly and you want to pass, but that left lane is much more snowy/slushy than the right

Driving to work the other day when it was snowing I saw multiple people hop into the left lane to pass, sit there for 1-3 seconds, then merge right back in where they were. It was funny to watch

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Real-Pierre-Delecto2 t1_jandfox wrote

This deserves way more votes! Time and time again I see this they whip out and forget that now one side of their cars tires are on a snow patch and whoops there they go sideways. Or they have 2 tires on the rumble strip (Rt.2 I'm looking at you) break traction and endup in the guardrail or worse. I just toot the horn and continue on with the familiar friendly one finger wave:)

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gmgvt t1_jaru4cv wrote

Yep. Interested to see OP cite New Yorkers as an example of people who prefer to pass. Maybe they should know better? 'Cause I learned why "doing the line" is the way to go back in my heedless early 20s, after doing a 180 off the Northway from the left lane and needing a tow out of 2 feet of snow in the ditch. Turns out snow can unexpectedly drift, even the day after a storm.

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Ulimaatissaq OP t1_jaso5le wrote

Cite New Yorkers? Like an MLA Essay?

Jokes lol.

But my partner is from New York, and says this is something they’ve never seen before, and I’ve never seen it happen before coming from Montana.

So it was new to both of us! But we have learned it’s a safer way to drive. :)

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