On a multi-lane road where traffic is saturated or in tailbacks, if a bus drives in the right lane and moves faster than the vehicles in the adjacent lanes, is it doing so in accordance with the regulations?

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Article 83(2) of the General Traffic Regulations establishes that, when traffic density is such that vehicles occupy the entire width of the roadway and can only travel at a speed that depends on that of the vehicle ahead in their lane, the fact that those in one lane move faster than those in another is not considered overtaking. In that case, the bus that advances in the right lane faster than those in the adjacent lanes is driving correctly, because it is not carrying out any overtaking maneuver; what it is prohibited from doing is changing lanes in order to overtake. It is therefore not true that passing other vehicles on the right is always prohibited: in this situation it is not overtaking.

On a multi-lane road where traffic is saturated or in tailbacks, if a bus drives in the right lane and moves faster than the vehicles in the adjacent lanes, is it doing so in accordance with the regulations?

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