OT: Here's a good idea

For his review of the railways he was employed by Ernest Marples (of Marples Ridgeway) who was transport minister from 1959 to 1964.

You are right about the 44 ton limit though.

Jim

Exactly so. Which is why I said the lane most used by trucks on a motorway will suffer the most wear.

I like to live in a country where we all not treated as criminals.

And when I do get arrested it does not take much of an effort from the police to decide I am who I say I am.

Odd, I spend well over 90% of my driving in the inside lane and very few cars overtake as its generally at 70 mph (real not speedo).

The main times when I am in the middle is at junctions where people are joining.

I expect there are others that also know how to drive since there are usually a lot of other cars in the inside lane.

No, the criminal will always have his dodgy ID on him. The only people who will be inconvenienced are the law abiding who may have forgotten their ID the day they were stopped.

Trouble with that line is that we don?t in fact see the intersection with the main road being worn out first.

and worn out Sheffield side roads aren't full of 42 tonne trucks and FWD.

I didn?t say I agreed with that approach, I JUST said that that is why that happens.

Bet it doesn?t and the IMF wont be bailing the UK out either.

Which is another reason why £70 billion is borrowed every year, particularly while it costs so little in interest.

Yes, its been well know for a long time that it?s the last year or so of most people's lives where they incur most of the costs to the NHS. But for some odd reason, it has never been considered to be politically acceptable to just pull the plug on those when their cost to the system is getting too high. Or to just pull the plug on those born premature who are about to cost the NHS a lot. Or even to just yawn and let him die when Simon deliberately jumped in front of a truck.

You must have very quiet motorways, because if driving at a true 70 mph you'll soon get stuck behind a truck running on its speed limiter. And on motorways round here if travelling at 70 mph, you'd not be able to spend anything like 90% of the time in the nearside lane. Which is generally near nose to tail with HGVs.

As they should be when it's reasonably clear.

Perhaps he drives on the M6 north of Lancaster, very few lorries there.

As is the general rule with these sorts of things - its almost certainly a lot higher.

That doesn't explain a particularly badly potholed road in my village which has become a rat run (bloody satnavs) to get from a north/south A road to an east west A road without being held up by a pair of mini roundabouts in the village centre.

It is also the access road to the local primary school.

HGV's not allowed. Only a lightweeight single decker bus uses that route. Most of the traffic is cars and vans.

After the recent cold spell, then heavy rain, the road surface just disintegrated. The worst section is a sweeping left hand bend where the front nearside wheel will be exerting a tearing action away from the kerb, right where all the water is pouring along the slight slope.

Another bad section is outside the school where the silly Limp dem traffic calming hump is coated with red non-skid stuff which cracks, allows the water and salt to be trapped and then the entire road structure below comes to pieces as vehicles bump over it. Also on a bend in the road.

But they are cutting down loads of mature trees so they can resurface the pavements. OBjectors are being threatened with some obscure law intended for an entirely different problem.

The Sheffield council subcontracted tree and pavement maintenance for a ten ?? year period. Removing the trees makes both cheaper especially if the contractor sells the wood in the form of wood chips to DRAX Or a similar power station.