OT: Observations on I-5 traffic in Kali-fornia.
>> Don't know what effect it will have on demand but just completed a long drive up and down I-5 in Kalifornia and could not help but notice the trucks driving five and ten MPH below the speed limit. They were not alone as most private vehicles were holding the speed limit. <<
I drove I-5 in Kali-fornia May 2 from Ontario to Redding, an nice eleven hour jaunt, and then back again May 5th.*** The trucks were the only vehicles traveling at the speed limit. Traveling the slow right lane though Kings or Fresno county much below 80 is to take your life in you hands. The only place I observed trucks much below the speed limit was in El Tejon Pass, where they better go below the speed limit given the steep gradients and pea soup fogs.
The stories that Kali-fornians will drive below the posted speed limit out of an elevated sense of civic virtue or to save gas is an urban-internet myth.
What keeps Southern Kali-fornians driving I-5, 1-10, I-105,I-605. I-710, etcetera, below the posted speed limit is called TRAFFIC CONGESTION, not energy conservation.
*** OK, for you quibblers, I actually drove 1-10, then I-215, then I-210 before joining I-5. Even I'm not crazy enough to try and plow though downtown on I-5 during morning rush hour,
and I actually drove from Loma Linda to Lewiston but who ever heard of either? |
