Of all the places I have driven (Europe, NA) so far Ontario is the worse for lane discipline and the worse for highway design (creating the problem).
One of the reasons IMO (maybe the main reason) for left lane bandits is the poorly designed/engineered highways. The left lane is the passing lane, the right lane is the driving lane. The driving lane should never just end (merge or force exit), lanes should be added and subtracted from the left via merges. Exits should be an additional lane(s) on the right that exit, the driving lane should always continue on. Most of our highways add and subtract lanes from the right side, this is wrong. I can jump on the QEW in Toronto, hit the left lane and park myself there without moving pretty much all the way to Fort Erie. Same for the 401 (Toronto to either end) once you are out of the express/collector system. If I do the "right thing"--pun intended--and stay in the right lane I have to change lanes along the way as this lane ends at various places. So back to human nature, we always consciously and subconsciously resist change and many of the left lane bandits are also poor drivers afraid of lane changes--so why would they drive in the right lane if the left never ends??? They may not consciously realize why they do it... This behaviour has been engineered into the system via poor design.
Enforcement will not catch enough of them to change the behaviour of the masses. It can be fixed with changes to the highways, many times all it requires is just a change in painted lines.
One of the reasons IMO (maybe the main reason) for left lane bandits is the poorly designed/engineered highways. The left lane is the passing lane, the right lane is the driving lane. The driving lane should never just end (merge or force exit), lanes should be added and subtracted from the left via merges. Exits should be an additional lane(s) on the right that exit, the driving lane should always continue on. Most of our highways add and subtract lanes from the right side, this is wrong. I can jump on the QEW in Toronto, hit the left lane and park myself there without moving pretty much all the way to Fort Erie. Same for the 401 (Toronto to either end) once you are out of the express/collector system. If I do the "right thing"--pun intended--and stay in the right lane I have to change lanes along the way as this lane ends at various places. So back to human nature, we always consciously and subconsciously resist change and many of the left lane bandits are also poor drivers afraid of lane changes--so why would they drive in the right lane if the left never ends??? They may not consciously realize why they do it... This behaviour has been engineered into the system via poor design.
Enforcement will not catch enough of them to change the behaviour of the masses. It can be fixed with changes to the highways, many times all it requires is just a change in painted lines.