I get a very twitchy bum when I am using that motorway.
Emergency lanes should be reserved for just that reason. And I never travel in one when using the M42.
Many years ago, the M6, close to me, was made a 4 lane road. It took some time to do and introduced some interference to drivers along the road. We still get problewms at Bank holidays though.
Since I don't use the M1 in that location, they can make it into a car park if they want. Oh I forgot, they already have :-(
Really? :-)
Dave
No, but it takes a lot of skill to drive fast, but not too fast.
Not in my oppinion. The times I use that motorway are not in 'times of high congestion' and the speed limit imposed has slowed down the traffic considerably.
In my travals from Preston to Portsmouth, it is the second most brain deadening motorway in GB, just behind the M62 after it passes Manchester.
To a none local, it is all confusing. Hard shoulders are where you pull onto when you break down. refuges are where you take refuge. If I break down between refuges, WTF do I leave the car?
Dave
Dont tell me., tell the other dozy plonkers
No, I bet you make it completely impossible. Or force them off the road if they try.
I bet you do.
Idiot.
No, it doesn't include obeying the law. legality is not safety and vice versa.
I very rarely go anywhere with traffic lights if I can avoid it.
In fact, as I learnt a long time ago, the amber is NOT linked to the speed limits. Its often either far too long or far to short.
And I don't want you up my backside if I am doing 25mph and the amber goes and I have to slam on my brakes.
So you can accuse me of speeding.
You could have warned me! Made me hoot.
Cod, mainly.
Ah. I've met those two too.
I got the bastardess because she obviously didnt know how to go round corners, and where to put the power down. I was up to the legal max and
150 yards ahead when I slowed down for the next village to the legal speed. Bastardess was an inch from my exhaust pipe all the way through, till I found a skoda to get past after the village. I left the pair of them playing 'I can go slower than you' together.I didn't break a speed limit at all..
Didn't someone drive an aircraft across that motorway some years ago?
Dave
Smile.
I was also highly concerned when the alteration was made, regularly commuting along the road at that stage. I have not seen a problem as a consequence of the change but do fear that there could be horrendous results of someone breaking down.
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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:34:30 +0100, The Natural Philosopher had this to say:
The trouble is that, whilst you might be a perfect driver, the other driver may not. He might be to blame for the accident, but you and your car are still involved...
Nah, we've run out of them apparently.
As speed limits are set in 10mph increments and one might presume that the limit will never be more than the assessed safe speed, on average the limit will be 5mph less than the safe speed.
shows how dangerous those speeding ferries were.
So what? I can be sitting still at a traffick light and some clot will drive into me, or thhese days, some person walk in front, beat their hands on the bonnet and fall down in front and say 'he hit me': I claim my 1/4 million compensation from his insurance'
At least if I were going fast enough, he wouldn't catch me.
You worry about speed cameras, which means you can't see them, therefore you lack the observational skills to drive.
While we are on about speed limits are there any other laws you ignore because *you* decide its safe.. maybe traffic lights, turn restrictions, driving on bridleways, etc? All of which may be judged safe by a driver (and probably are some of the time). How about obstructing people drives, that's safe all the time. Do you really think you are safe to speed if all the others also speed? It looks to me that your judgment is also flawed.
You can't lay all the blame on a driver pulling into someone else's path if they are going faster than they should be. The report might well be filed under "driver pulling into path" but the accident was still caused by the speeder. If cars had cameras to record these incidents there would be far more accidents put down to excess speed.
Who said I ignore speed limits?
So, you think a bureaucrat with a pen in an office 100 miles away, trying to get home early on a Friday knows better than the person there on the ground at the time what is 'safe' and what is not?
Hey. I've got an idea. Why dont we all juts have audible warnings on the speedo and drive with our eyes closed?
Or here's a better one: you get fined for having sex without a condom, because its safer?
To me it looks like your spell checker is flawed.
You canna change the laws of physics, jim.
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