A Florida bill aimed at getting drivers out of the fast lane seems to have hit a speed bump.
The bill was racing through the Florida Legislature and was slated to cross the finish line in the Senate Friday afternoon, but was temporarily postponed on the Senate floor.Life may be a highway, but when you’re stuck behind a slow driver in the left lane, it may feel more like a highway to hell.“Of course, it’s annoying!” Jim Nieland, who stopped at a rest stop near Jacksonville on his way home to New Jersey said.
“I don’t care if they cruise in the left lane, just as long as I don’t have to be behind them,” Karen Bond, another New Jersey resident passing through the Bold City said.“In the last five years we’ve had 17,404 accidents that were a direct result from passing on the right,” Perry said during a committee hearing earlier in the week.
Current law allows you to drive in the left lane, so long as you move over for vehicles traveling at a higher rate of speed. Under Perry’s bill, the left lane would only be allowed as a passing lane on roads with posted speeds of 65 miles-per-hour or faster.“I think they’d stay in the left lane,” Williams said.“It’s nice to see people getting out of the way,” Orlando resident Joe Doubleday said. “When’s that take effect?”The bill never made it out of its last House committee and with the Senate delaying a vote on the bill, it’s currently in legislative purgatory.
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