Keepin left.... is it a law???

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Originally Posted by bob^

People driving in the left lane is equally annoying when there is traffic merging.
Common sense says move into the middle lane at those points to allow traffic to flow a hell of a lot easier.

Yes it would, but the broken white line at the merge point would also indicate that the merging traffic has to 'GIVE WAY', not race the oncoming traffic already there.