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Keep Left Unless Overtaking
Rankaz13
#91 Posted : Sunday, July 07, 2013 7:03:17 PM
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Huu mjadala tumekuwa tunachangia hapa kimchezo, sasa ona. As we speak, I'm reliably informed of a major accident at Tana bridge, bodies still being retrieved from the wreckage. Sad Sad Apparently, one of the fellows took the climbing lane to be his overtaking lane, went on an overtaking spree and smack at the middle of the bridge has collided head-on with an oncoming lorry.

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Prime
#92 Posted : Sunday, July 07, 2013 7:35:23 PM
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Rankaz13 wrote:
Huu mjadala tumekuwa tunachangia hapa kimchezo, sasa ona. As we speak, I'm reliably informed of a major accident at Tana bridge, bodies still being retrieved from the wreckage. Sad Sad Apparently, one of the fellows took the climbing lane to be his overtaking lane, went on an overtaking spree and smack at the middle of the bridge has collided head-on with an oncoming lorry.

Mbona watu hawaskiangi wakionywa lakini??Brick wall Brick wall



Pray Pray
That river Tana stretch as you go uphill will keep on being the waterloo for many a motorist. this is as you go upwards towards Makutano. Some mororisa will be rightly overtaking as they move up then some idiot decides to overtake as he/she goes downhill. The only problem is that there is a blind corner. The fellows overtaking meet bang at the middle. And neither can escape because there are cars on both sides. Add to the smoothness of that road and the speeds involved. Disaster.
safariant
#93 Posted : Sunday, July 07, 2013 7:52:10 PM
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Prime wrote:
Rankaz13 wrote:
Huu mjadala tumekuwa tunachangia hapa kimchezo, sasa ona. As we speak, I'm reliably informed of a major accident at Tana bridge, bodies still being retrieved from the wreckage. Sad Sad Apparently, one of the fellows took the climbing lane to be his overtaking lane, went on an overtaking spree and smack at the middle of the bridge has collided head-on with an oncoming lorry.

Mbona watu hawaskiangi wakionywa lakini??Brick wall Brick wall



Pray Pray
That river Tana stretch as you go uphill will keep on being the waterloo for many a motorist. this is as you go upwards towards Makutano. Some mororisa will be rightly overtaking as they move up then some idiot decides to overtake as he/she goes downhill. The only problem is that there is a blind corner. The fellows overtaking meet bang at the middle. And neither can escape because there are cars on both sides. Add to the smoothness of that road and the speeds involved. Disaster.


That part of the road needs to be clearly marked. You can't tell that there is a Climbing lane.
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Rankaz13
#94 Posted : Sunday, July 07, 2013 7:57:12 PM
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safariant wrote:
Prime wrote:
Rankaz13 wrote:
Huu mjadala tumekuwa tunachangia hapa kimchezo, sasa ona. As we speak, I'm reliably informed of a major accident at Tana bridge, bodies still being retrieved from the wreckage. Sad Sad Apparently, one of the fellows took the climbing lane to be his overtaking lane, went on an overtaking spree and smack at the middle of the bridge has collided head-on with an oncoming lorry.

Mbona watu hawaskiangi wakionywa lakini??Brick wall Brick wall



Pray Pray
That river Tana stretch as you go uphill will keep on being the waterloo for many a motorist. this is as you go upwards towards Makutano. Some mororisa will be rightly overtaking as they move up then some idiot decides to overtake as he/she goes downhill. The only problem is that there is a blind corner. The fellows overtaking meet bang at the middle. And neither can escape because there are cars on both sides. Add to the smoothness of that road and the speeds involved. Disaster.


That part of the road needs to be clearly marked. You can't tell that there is a Climbing lane.



Come to think of it, it used to be but someone slept on the job after recarpeting. And that bridge...sometimes I get the feeling it's too narrow bwana.
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Impunity
#95 Posted : Monday, July 08, 2013 9:37:09 AM
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In addition to keeping left, what do you say about those guys who stick their necks outside the window in a fast moving traffic in order to wipe the windscreens due faulty wipers especially in Thika road or Waiyaki way?

Should these types of guys keep on right so that the oncoming vehicles cannot severe their empty heads?
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#96 Posted : Monday, July 08, 2013 5:54:06 PM
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Impunity wrote:
In addition to keeping left, what do you say about those guys who stick their necks outside the window in a fast moving traffic in order to wipe the windscreens due faulty wipers especially in Thika road or Waiyaki way?

Should these types of guys keep on right so that the oncoming vehicles cannot severe their empty heads?
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#97 Posted : Wednesday, July 10, 2013 4:10:34 PM
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Maybe those "keep left" signs should be replaced with the below ones and they shud all be put on the left side, maybe with some modifications to the effect that the nude ones are strictly on the left.

thuks
#98 Posted : Wednesday, July 10, 2013 5:52:35 PM
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washiku wrote:
Maybe those "keep left" signs should be replaced with the below ones and they shud all be put on the left side, maybe with some modifications to the effect that the nude ones are strictly on the left.



Try that here and I guarantee you a 6.9mile jam and motorists complaigning, "Kwani wanatokelezea saa ngapi?"
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kiash
#99 Posted : Wednesday, July 10, 2013 7:11:09 PM
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seppuku wrote:
Some people here are zealously repeating what is already well known and acknowledged in the title of the thread - that the law says you should keep left unless you are overtaking. Others are making up their own rules about fast lanes and slow lanes. I am saying that I think this particular rule does more harm than good on a one-way road with multiple lanes. And by the way, does it have exceptions? When you are driving up to a roundabout to make a 270 degree turn for example, you want to be on the rightmost lane, right? But you are not overtaking. When you get onto the superhighway from Roysambu for instance, and there are 2 slow-moving trucks 700m apart on the left-most lane, are you going to get back between them when you overtake the first one or are you going to maintain your higher speed on the next lane for as long as it is clear? Who here drives like this? The fact that you think divergent opinion is stupid or wrong doesn't lend any credence to your own.


He Seppuku unauliza maswali, i did my driving in Kenya and had to drive later where they keep right. I think the point was explained by Mukiha with the number rules (do not know where he got them but that is how it is)I was taught you should always check behind you if there is another driver moving faster than you, then take the left lane and if the person in front is driving slower than you overtake on the right and that is how it works. Some people just block others with free lanes on their left.Experience will teach you that incase of a danger (in front of you ) its easier to escape to the lane on your right and if you are on the right most lane,meaning someone else is on your left ole wako!! If you On the truck thing at Roysambu,you do not have to overtake the first truck and then squeeze in between the two.If there is a car behind you and the distance between the two allows then you can squeeze in but if there is no space you have to move faster to clear the lane.
butterflyke
#100 Posted : Wednesday, July 10, 2013 7:19:49 PM
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@seppuku, when are you going yo exit the highway? smile

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