Keeping left

This is how I know it to be...you don't have to keep left unless in a over 90k zone..

"Regulation 113 (Restrictions on use of right lane) - implantation and signage.
Synopsis
In Western Australia we do not have a keep left rule on multi-laned roads as is common in other countries and we also allow overtaking on the left, a practice which is banned in some other countries. However, Regulation 113 restricts the use of the right hand lane on roads where the speed limit is 90 km/hr or greater.

Unfortunately, this is one of Western’s Australia’s better kept secrets. Paper 2 makes the point that this important Regulation is not even mentioned in the literature with which learner driver’s are presented. The relevant government authorities that deal with signage permit outdated advisory signs to remain which communicates to motorists that keeping left is courteous but optional. “Keep Left Unless Overtaking Signs” which also trigger the rule are erected in places without any further signs after major intersections on the road. In one instance the law in the Northbridge tunnel is changed by a single sign in the Darling Range 20 kilometres away.


Prepared by Ted Leech LLB (Hons.), B. Comm

41 Woodbine Road
Pickering Brook WA 6076

Telephone: 9293 8170
Email [email protected]

23 August 2004"

Link:- www.perthlaw.biz/Roadcode/Paper%205%20-%20Regulation%20113%20-%20implementation.htm

This is interesting -

The rule restricting the use of the right hand lane is a good rule. It is sensible, reasonable and calculated to facilitate the free flow of traffic and minimisation of frustration caused by obstructive vehicles. However, the Department for Planning and Infrastructure have seen fit not to bother including the rule in the only publications available to learner drivers. The police apparently have not seen fit to enforce the rule and the Department for Main Roads has erected sensible signs in sensible places but entirely failed to ensure that motorists joining the carriageway after the signs know of the rule. The situation of one two signs at Lesmurdie governing 20 kilometres of arterial road through metropolitan Perth is just ludicrous.

www.perthlaw.biz/Roadcode/Paper%205%20-%20Regulation%20113%20-%20implementation.htm

I don't think I have done a freeway journey in Perth lately without witnessing someone enter the freeway, gravitate straight to the right lane and proceed to cruise along at 95km/h with a queue of traffic forming behind them.

That said, there also seems to be quite a few drivers who seem to think that the right lane should allow them free passage at any time and at any speed. There's definitely freeway conditions where, just do to the sheer volume of cars on the road, you just aint gonna be able to do 100 (or more). Some drivers don't seem to be able to accept this either.

I'd be quite happy for the government to do a bit of revenue raising by just having a blitz on freeway driving practices for a few weeks. Or, why not put a couple of public servants on the freeway (i.e. not fully trained police officers) with car mounted cameras to just cruise end to end all day and send out fines to those seen being twits. Combined with a bit of an advertising campaign (which the fines could fund) it might educate a few drivers out there and tidy the situation up a bit.

On the freeway I like to do 100. Not 90 or 95. Not 110 or 120!
When the flow of traffic in the left lane is going less than 100 I will pull in to the right lane and do 100. I laugh at those who tailgate me because they want to go faster than the speed limit. Tailgating will not make me go faster and Im certainly not going to pull into the slower flowing left hand lane. If you dont like it then too bad. Coz Im not speeding for no inexperienced P plater, bogan ute driver, 4WDriving little pin dick or arrogant ford phucker

Cisco, you'll get hurry up, me boy ....when the seas rise, Queens landers will

shake off their constipation then...... [}:)]