An Experiment in Civil Obedience

[billroper]

For my friends down in Atlanta, this five-minute video shows the result when a group of young people decide to obey the traffic laws.

Interestingly, this act of civil obedience would be illegal in Illinois. (Via Instapundit.)

Comments

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

Help me on this one.... why would this be illegal in Illinois? Hell there are places where minimum speed limits are posted... so theoretically as long as you're going the minimum or higher they shouldn't be able to issue a ticket.

[billroper]

Our legislature passed (and Governor Rod signed) legislation that makes it illegal to block traffic in the left lane, even if you are doing the posted speed limit. It's an interesting bit of hypocrisy.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting for that one to be challenged in court. I sort of have the feeling it has never been enforced.

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

I recall that legislation... but I don't know that they could effectively write a ticket for doing the speed limit. There were also all sorts of interesting exceptions to that law as well.... since otherwise technically one third(depends on how many lanes of traffic there are) of all cars on the expressways would be breaking this law during rush hour and traffic is crawling.