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also love the looks of utter bemusement as you under take them...

I don't even drive and it irritates the hell out of me..


Are you on foot then? It would certainly bemuse me to see someone run past me on the M25. :D

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bubbles wrote:
also love the looks of utter bemusement as you under take them...

I don't even drive and it irritates the hell out of me..


Are you on foot then? It would certainly bemuse me to see someone run past me on the M25. :D


There have been times on the M25 when a snail could pass me with ease...

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Paul1965 wrote:
bubbles wrote:
also love the looks of utter bemusement as you under take them...

I don't even drive and it irritates the hell out of me..


Are you on foot then? It would certainly bemuse me to see someone run past me on the M25. :D


passanger who recently passed his test ;) family all over the country so do a fair bit of travelling.

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FFS BBC

Google have NOT bought Motorola - they bought its mobile division. Get it right.

Oh and while we're at it, Shell is not spelled with three 'l's

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bubbles wrote:
also love the looks of utter bemusement as you under take them...

I don't even drive and it irritates the hell out of me..

As undertaking is illegal it's clear you don't ;)

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also love the looks of utter bemusement as you under take them...

I don't even drive and it irritates the hell out of me..

As undertaking is illegal it's clear you don't ;)

And why middle lane morons irritate me so much. I like the law in Germany. If you are in the middle lane and not overtaking then you get penalised via points or fine. Seems fair to me.

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And why middle lane morons irritate me so much. I like the law in Germany. If you are in the middle lane and not overtaking then you get penalised via points or fine. Seems fair to me.


2 caveats to that...
Apply to EVERY lane except lane 1
Except when the motorway splits off and has filter lanes, the M1 has this a lot where it will split into 4/5 lanes, with the inside 1 or 2 being used for turning off

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Amnesia10 wrote:
And why middle lane morons irritate me so much. I like the law in Germany. If you are in the middle lane and not overtaking then you get penalised via points or fine. Seems fair to me.


2 caveats to that...
Apply to EVERY lane except lane 1
Except when the motorway splits off and has filter lanes, the M1 has this a lot where it will split into 4/5 lanes, with the inside 1 or 2 being used for turning off

Perfectly acceptable, as you would be in a filter lane you would not be in the main traffic.

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I have no problem with the system and rules we have but (mostly on long motorway journeys) I've considered what alternatives there might be. The only one I've come up with that actually might work is prioritising lanes by junction. The system I'ev imagined is that you are allowed in the left hand lane if the junction at which you are leaving the motorway is within 2 junctions (i.e. if you're getting off at junction 13, you may enter the left hand lane after junction 11). Middle lane you may stay in if you are getting off in less than 5 junctions time, right hand lane you may be in at any time.

Basically it makes getting on and off the motorway safer which, I believe the statistics say, are where most accidents and foulups happen.

I make no claim that this is any better than the system we currently have, just that it's different and it keeps my mind from slipping into neutral on long stretches of the M6...

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Rather than have people sticking in lanes for miles restrict lane changes within a certain distance of junctions. With signs warning of such restrictions.

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Basically it makes getting on and off the motorway safer which, I believe the statistics say, are where most accidents and foulups happen.


Anyone who's used the M2 from Junction 1 to 4 will tell you why this won't really work.

Essentially, what happens now is from J2 coastbound the motorway becomes four lanes as an entry slip becomes lane one as it crosses the Medway valley on a mahoosive bridge. Most people seldom change lane to take advantage of it. There follows a long uphill section of four lanes, at the end of which lane one becomes the exit slip for Chatham/Maidstone. At the one mile advance sign, all the lorries - still grinding uphill remember - switch to lane two...

The same thing occurs at J4, where the three lanes drop to two (the original M2 was two lanes each way). Lane one becomes the exit slip, and all the lorries dutifully change to lane two and cause all kinds of mayhem as the faster traffic has to weave around them.

Essentially, the problem is people reading the signs and taking action way too soon, causing all kinds of fun and games.

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Essentially, the problem is people reading the signs and taking action way too soon, causing all kinds of fun and games.


Well it's simple then.
Remove all the signs. ;)

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My preferred idea is to add "Lorries - not yet" on the one mile sign, "Lorries - nearly there" on the half-mile, and then "Lorries - NOW!" when the dotted line appears. :lol:

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Meanwhile, the muppets who run the Radio Times web site haven't got a clue!

They've been working on a new design for years. Regular users of the old site have been encouraged to try it out, and you should read the feedback complaints. A couple of weeks ago, the new beta site was "accidentally" switched to live.

Cue howls of anguish. It was switched back fairly quickly.

Today, it's been switched over again. Apparently, they're moving the old site to a new server and it needs to be tested for a couple of days before it returns to being live, while the new site will take over the main URL. Why the blinkin' flip didn't they copy the old site and test it first, leaving the existing site working in the old server, rather than tick off their users by foisting a broken beta site on us?

Amateurs! :twisted: :roll: :x

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