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I would like to see mandatory dash cams including a camera looking at the driver.
If not compulsory then speed/phone use cameras everywhere.
Then near Shrewsbury one of those ‘wide A roads that isn’t a dual carriageway but people use as one’ had loads flying past at 70.
Those terrify me. Can't understand why some people hug the gutter and invite other drivers to make risky overtakes against oncoming traffic. Why don't they mark the lanes so you've got two in one direction, one in the other, then reverse it intermittently?
A dual carriageway is a road with a central reservation, it's not related to the number of lanes.
Price of fuel probably a factor . Wang around for hours at over 80 and it kills the mpg. Higher geared , quieter cars just roll through 30 limits at 45 as that's 1200rpm in top gear so very economical and quiet, if not anti social.
A dual carriageway is a road with a central reservation, it’s not related to the number of lanes.
Well I never. Struggling to think of anywhere that has a central reservation that isnt also multiple lane mind.
You'll start noticing them now. Which means you can tailgate and flash the vehicle in front mistakenly sticking to 60. 🙂
A dual carriageway is a road with a central reservation, it’s not related to the number of lanes.
Wasn't suggesting they put a reservation or barrier in, just that they divide it into lanes with either a dotted or solid line in between, so in theory you're less likely to get two cars side by side in both directions.
Those terrify me. Can’t understand why some people hug the gutter and invite other drivers to make risky overtakes against oncoming traffic. Why don’t they mark the lanes so you’ve got two in one direction, one in the other, then reverse it intermittently?
The Coroner's Corridor
You will see crawler lanes on hilly roads laid out like this, but it's permanent and for an obvious (and short) reason.
Has anyone else noticed the number of people who seem to think that just because their phone is in a cradle, it's absolutely fine to use it to watch a movie? Maybe they don't realise just how obvious it is from outside their car, although it's usually a van driver. Bonus points for turning the phone landscape and propping it up in the instrument binnacle.
NHS funding could be solved in a heartbeat by putting cameras that look sideways in cars and having a private company trundle them up and down the motorway. £1,500 fine for each offence should do nicely. This is the sort of thing that is ideal to be handed out to G4S or similar, because they've got a motivation to catch offenders but there's absolutely no ambiguity about the crime.
[also available for private enforcement under a Flaperon government: tailgating, pavement parking, illegally spaced number plates, tinted number plates, driving with a headlight out, driving with all brake lights failed, increasing speed after being overtaken, slowing down to 65 to go under an inactive gantry camera, loud exhausts, Ionity / Osprey electricity prices, throwing McDonalds' litter from the window...]
Those terrify me. Can’t understand why some people hug the gutter and invite other drivers to make risky overtakes against oncoming traffic. Why don’t they mark the lanes so you’ve got two in one direction, one in the other, then reverse it intermittently?
Because they are absolutely lethal. The Heads of the Valley road (A470) used to be all like that in South Wales and the accident rate was horrific.
Has anyone else noticed the number of people who seem to think that just because their phone is in a cradle, it’s absolutely fine to use it to watch a movie?
Yes, plus people FaceTimeing or whatever you call it.
Months take home pay fine if caught using your phone at an interactive level above a voice call
Eh . Facetime , watts app , movie watching , eBay etc .
With current phone use would be self funding
Flaperon for PM!
Don't drive much in Manchester if I can avoid it, mainly giving kids lifts to stuff (cycle to work down canal into MCR) rarely complete a short trip in car without seeing cars ignoring red lights or someone on phone and/or speeding. Had someone overtake me in a 30 a few weeks ago they went wrong side of traffic island, little fiesta 4 up with teenage lads. If you could earn money for reporting phone drivers I'd he retired in Whistler right now. Pavement parking - Jesus every day I think wow that's the worst parking I've ever seen right on bend or double parked or all 4 wheels on pavement and almost everyday I see something worse it's like people in my area are practicing for the world bellending championships.
"Depends on the circs but it might be okay… Highway Code Rule 268
Do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to overtake. In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions you may keep up with the traffic in your lane even if this means passing traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave in and out of lanes to overtake."
I was on the M1 going south yesterday on a section with 4 lanes between junctions 15 and 14. There was a traffic officer in lane 1 so all the idiots hogging lane 3 slow down even further below the speed limit. I was in lane 2 passing the officer in lane 1 and the idiots in lane 3, still under the speed limit. Any reaction from the officer? Nope, not a flicker.
Can’t understand why some people hug the gutter and invite other drivers to make risky overtakes against oncoming traffic.
I hug the gutter because the idiots are going to be idiots anyway & I'd rather give them a better chance of not coming into contact with anyone else.
school of thought (certainly on a bike) is to make it obvious they're going to have to use the other lane and not squeeze past with wheels just about on the white line - anything that makes them think for a moment has to be good, no?
school of thought (certainly on a bike) is to make it obvious they’re going to have to use the other lane and not squeeze past
To be honest that's not a school of thought I sign up to bike or no bike, only time I do "hold my lane" is passing through pinch points when there really isn't any room to pass, I prefer to keep people sweet so they don't feel the need for punishment passes/aggressive driving.