Quote Originally Posted by TheSparkens View Post
I have been riding road bikes for a very long time and I go to work in Broomfield from Castle Rock every day. I do this on many roads. I see this almost always in the Denver area, Denver needs to get a team of their bikes out during the day and stop this crap, they don't need to start a chase they just need to get a plate number and issue a ticket via mail and be witness in court. One of the things they also need to enforce and is almost un-enforceable is slow traffic NEEDS TO KEEP RIGHT. If you want to drive the speed limit and below get over and if you stay in the left lane and cant or wont maintain your speed you should get a ticket, after all I will take mine in much the same way for speeding.
Amen to all of that.

People driving slow in the wrong lane are dangerous. People matching the speed of vehicles next to them back up traffic which increases the potential for accidents. I'm a bit of a lead foot, but typically only do up to about 5 over on I-25. I'm far from the fastest driver on the road and when I'm not passing, I move my ass over.

I also think more tickets for tail-gating need to be given out. I mean, DAMN, when I can't see your hood out of the rear view window of my little Civic and we're doing 70+ MPH, YOU ARE TOO CLOSE. Give me a freaking chance to get past the vehicle next to me and get moved over. And for those who tail-gate the driver who's essentially parked next to the vehicle in the next lane, it isn't going to make the driver move by you tail-gating them. For those folks, it's one of two things: either they're too wrapped up in themselves to recognize there are other drivers on the road or it's a control thing for them. Either way, tail-gating them won't get you the outcome you desire.

I wish CO had more programs requiring drivers convicted of careless driving (not so much the speeding thing as most everything else) to have to attend driver safety training. It seems the rules of the road are forgotten concepts for many drivers I see these days.