On Apr 20, 2:24*am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:51:48 -0700 (PDT), "TibetanMonkey,
the-Monkey-with-the-Bag-of-****" declaimed
the following in alt.scooter:

A PASSING LANE IS...

__ A passing lane is the lane on a multi-lane highway or motorway
closest to the center of the road (the central reservation).

* * * * Which doesn't apply to many of the freeways in my area -- where that
lane is a diamond (car pool) lane.

Here (southeast Michigan), we don't have car pool lanes.

The passing lane is the one that you drive in when the folks in the
other
lanes don't know that the customary speed is 10 over the posted limit.