Originally Posted by invisiblehand
Broadly speaking, I believe that one of the common arguments for taking the lane -- or whatever you want to call it -- is that it encourages greater lateral passing distance. Dan Gutierrez has a whole bunch of stuff on this very point. It's kind of silly to argue otherwise.
Originally Posted by
hagen2456
In case anybody missed it, the url is to the famous Walker passing distance study, which showed consistently
decreasing passing distance the further he moved into the lane.