Roadguy has gotten a little behind on his correspondence during this busy week, so let’s dig in.

First, a look at some analog mail that arrived at Roadguy headquarters:

Oops. That was supposed to be a picture of the tire gauge that Roadguy received in a promotional packet about National Tire Safety Week, but the gauge is nowhere to be found. Oh well – on the positive side, I’m less likely to get in trouble with the ombudsman for accepting a gift from a trade group. And you can still celebrate this very special week by testing your tire knowledge here (after you locate your gauge and check your pressure, of course).

Next up: A little shopping opportunity. The other day, Roadguy got an e-mail from Leftlanedrivers.org, “a diverse, very loosely affiliated group of drivers who share the common objective of reducing the Left Lane congestion on our freeways and multi-lane highways by politely encouraging slow drivers to move over.” The primary means for achieving this goal is a large $29 decal that goes along the top of your windshield; when drivers in front of you look in the rear-view mirror, they’ll see “MOVE OVER” in big letters with an arrow directing them to the right. It’s kind of a clever concept, and a definite step up from tailgating.

Also in Roadguy’s inbox this week was the latest from Dale the Truck Driver:

If you happen to notice four tire marks heading west on 94 at the double white line merge from 35W, that would be me. I would have to say that the state and the U wasted money on this one. No enforcement what so all. Some jackass doing about 20 mph actually looked over his shoulder at me and still moved in front of me, crossing the white lines. I then got the hands in the air as if I did not know what I was doing on the road. Why, I have only driven 2 million miles in a truck around the metro…. Well, hopefully all the rubber I put down will repair a pothole.

Roadguy went past this very spot again on Tuesday, but he didn’t have time to look for the tire marks — he was too busy watching drivers cross the double white line. It was kind of a bummer because earlier reports both in the news media and from alert readers had indicated that this effort had improved traffic flow. But as we know, on-the-road cooperation is always a challenge to achieve and maintain.

We conclude today with a note from loyal reader Erica over at Metroblogging. Erica wrote to inform Roadguy that he’d been selected to take part in a meme. According to the post:

Requirements are simple, fill us in on three things about MN ….anything … what you love, what you hate, where you visit, where you party, where you blog from, just keep it Minne-sooo-tan.

Because Roadguy likes to accentuate the positive, here are three transportation-y things that he is more or less in love with:

• The views of the Minneapolis skyline from southbound 35W in Northeast.
• Riding the bus along the University of Minnesota transitway to the State Fair.
• The Twin Cities’ mind-bogglingly vast and beautiful array of off-street bike paths.

Roadguy can’t officially tag you to take part in the meme (a word, by the way, that he once thought might be pronounced “me! me!” because of the inherent self-absorption), but feel free to share your list of three things, or any other thoughts, below.

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