Bad driver
 

I took the left lane of a two lane road. The right lane is full of cars going onto the highway. There is less than 100 yds between stop lights on this stretch. This car honks behind me, crosses the double yellow line and passes me on the left. We are approaching the traffic light and I shift to the right lane. An aware driver kindly let me merge in. I pull up to the passenger window and shout as loud as I can "You passed me on the left !". The passenger (daughter) looked embarrassed and horrified. And I'm doing 25 in a 30 on a slight downhill. Nothing surprises me anymore. I love my left bar-end mirror. The rest of the morning commute went better

Hey, at least he honked :P

be careful out there. I wouldn't be shouting anything to anyone as I'm riding. save the confrontations for when you are standing still. but avoid them anyway

Hike down your pants and put a butt print on his passenger window.

My daughter, who attended high school in the Boston area, made the observation that many drivers in Boston seem to have the horn connected to the brakes, so that they automatically honk whenever they apply the brake. At first I thought that she was crazy, but as I observe the way they drive in Massachusetts, I am not so sure......

"you beat me to the light! Happy?"

So after you were passed, you shifted to the right lane. If it was ok to go to that lane to yell at the driver, why wasn't it ok to be in that lane all along?

I'm going to guess that it was past the highway entrance when he shifted back to the right lane.

There's a stretch of country two-lane with no shoulder on my commute... a short stretch, less than a mile.... but most of it is marked with double yellow, especially the part leading into the blind curve at the end. Cars routinely cross the double yellow pass me, even on that curve. I recognize that I'm not gonna stop them but I try to maintain enough lane position that they have to really move over to the left to get around me and.... if need be I have a little wiggle room to veer right if they have to cut back in suddenly. I generally take the middle of the lane or so. If they are behind me and I can see no on-coming traffic, I'll shift right a bit (into the right tire track) to invite them to pass. If there is oncoming traffic I try to hold my position. I even once flagged a car down that started to pass because there was oncoming traffic and if he had tried to pull around me he would have gotten in a collision. When the other traffic cleared I moved right and waved him around... and when he came by he gave me a thumbs up.

In that stretch I don't worry about double yellow versus dashed yellow; if a car wants to pass they pretty much ignore it. I just try to make things as safe as I can for all involved. It's what Keri on CommuteOrlando calls "leading the dance."

He says that the lights were less than 100 yards apart and that he shifted into the right lane as he approached the light. Where was the highway entrance? At the light?

The OP was travelling at 25mph and the driver pulled into the oncoming traffic lane, passed him (presumably going much faster than 25mph), then pulled back into his lane and still allowed an aware driver enough time to sow and give him room to move into the right lane, pull up to the passer's window and yell at the daughter. All within 8 seconds - the time to travel 100 yards at 25mph.

Just in case you don't believe me:

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