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Ahh, welcome to Targeted Enforcement Week on the carpool lane of the 55 freeway.

California traffic may be bad, but at least motorcycles can use the car pool lanes on the congested freeways. Watching motorcycles sail by while I was gripping my gridlocked steering wheel in seething anger is what got me to start riding in the first place.

Still, not all drivers are patient enough to just sit and watch us sail by. Some take a chance. It must be a targeted enforcement week, as every morning so far, I've seen the poor fools who can't resist receive their $490 slap on the wrist.

Huh... looking at the photo, this is the first one I've seen that wasn't a BMW.

Gone: I've seen in real-time what happens when a greedy cager sneaks into a fast-moving HOV lane at an undesignated place.

In short: Sight and sounds of carnage. The teeth clench while witnessing the drama.

Yeah, GO, you get really good at watching the actions of cars stuck in the left-most lane of stopped traffic. The cars that are looking for an opening show some pretty easy to read signs. I avoid following a large truck or SUV closely while moving in fast car pool lane traffic - I don't want a car anticipating the passing truck to dive in quickly after it, as he wouldn't see me immediately behind the truck.

Conversely, you can start to read the guy in front of you in the faster traffic, when he's getting close to the point where he wants to slow down and move back over to the slow lane.

(03-10-2022, 09:34 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, GO, you get really good at watching the actions of cars stuck in the left-most lane of stopped traffic. The cars that are looking for an opening show some pretty easy to read signs. I avoid following a large truck or SUV closely while moving in fast car pool lane traffic - I don't want a car anticipating the passing truck to dive in quickly after it, as he wouldn't see me immediately behind the truck.

Conversely, you can start to read the guy in front of you in the faster traffic, when he's getting close to the point where he wants to slow down and move back over to the slow lane.

Absolutely.

That is why I was moving to the outside lane to get farthest from the chain reaction. It is still bothering to witness, the crunching of body metal and plastics, ... the skidding of rubber on asphalt.