Minnesotans drive slow? (Lake City: closing, dangerous, legally)

[virgil tatro]

go to montana people there drive 75 on snow and ice and 90 to 100 on dry roads, as a former long haul trucker I apreciate minnesota drivers (except alot, in the big cities, big cities are all the same) but for the most part minnesota drivers are courteous, at least to truckers.

[ram2]

Do Minnesota drivers know about radar detectors and CB radios?

[audadvnc]

A guy I used to work with had the barbed wire on his farm fences connected to the telephone lines.
One long ring = Anderson residence.
Two short rings = Odegard residence.
Two longs and a short? "It's the Cows! Julie, go get Blossom off the fence!"

[Sonata36]

Y'all understand that MN doesn't have a left lane law, right?

[Thegonagle]

Originally Posted by ram2

Do Minnesota drivers know about radar detectors and CB radios?

Yes. But do I care?

I find it's more relaxing to just obey the law, let the cruise control do its job, look out the windows, and steer my horseless carriage. The speed limit is 70 in MN. That's fast enough to get me where I go. It's not that large of a state.

[ram2]

Originally Posted by Thegonagle

Yes. But do I care?

I find it's more relaxing to just obey the law, let the cruise control do its job, look out the windows, and steer my horseless carriage. The speed limit is 70 in MN. That's fast enough to get me where I go. It's not that large of a state.

What if the speed limit is illegally underposted?

[Squeamish]

Originally Posted by Thegonagle

I find it's more relaxing to just obey the law, let the cruise control do its job, look out the windows, and steer my horseless carriage. The speed limit is 70 in MN. That's fast enough to get me where I go. It's not that large of a state.

How many hours per week do you spend driving on the freeway in MN?

Have you spent significant time on 2-lane roads in western or northern MN where the speed limit is 55?

I have a theory that slower drivers generally don't drive as many miles per week, therefore speeding does not save them as much time and has less of a benefit.

[ram2]

Speeding is relative. It used to be illegal and dangerous (per the old propaganda) to drive faster than 55 anywhere in the US. Now you can legally drive up to 80 on those very same roads. Also, if the US Interstate system is built to the same standards, why do different states have different speed limits?

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by sm007

Yes Minnesotans due tend to drive slow, I never realized it until I started traveling to other states.

In some parts of the country, people are in a hurry to live, and a hurry to die.

MN? Slow to live, slow to die?

I can only imagine how someone from MN would react, if they rented a car, and drove around Greece for a couple weeks on their two-lane roads, as I did one time.

There, you drive with one set of wheels on the right shoulder, which opens up a passing lane. First come, first serve!

Even with our interstates, why pig all that territory! You see someone from your rear-view window, show some courtesy, if in the fast lane, move those left wheels onto the shoulder, in the slow lane, move those right wheels over onto the shoulder, and bingo! You have a 3-lane road! Sure would save on road construction!

[knke0204]

Originally Posted by Thegonagle

Yes. But do I care?

I find it's more relaxing to just obey the law, let the cruise control do its job, look out the windows, and steer my horseless carriage. The speed limit is 70 in MN. That's fast enough to get me where I go. It's not that large of a state.

yeah, it's just the 11th largest out of the 50