Middle lane hogs!!!!

redpete

meritaten wrote: »

there was an interesting study done by a university and calculating the speed limits and congestion they concluded that LOWERING the speed limit would reduce congestion.
why? because they thought that higher speeds made drivers more impatient and caused more traffic hold ups!

Can you provide a reference to that research? The only examples I've seen show that lower speed limits *when it is already congested* increase the average speed. Nothing to do with driver impatience but down to the way that traffic behaves with braking/accelerating and the waves of slow/stopped vehicles that is the result.

JohalaReewi

DKLS wrote: »

So anyone care to admit to taking the racing line on a motorway?

(Albeit at silly o clock in the morning when its dead quiet)

Trouble is, you need to be going racing speeds to benefit.

NEH

meritaten wrote: »

so they are supposed to speed up to seventy? that means if you overtake them then you are exceeding the speed limit? so if everyone in the middle lane is doing seventy - then the cops have a field day? read your highway code again. most of the problems are caused by people who think that ANYONE doing under the speed limit is a road hog.
there was an interesting study done by a university and calculating the speed limits and congestion they concluded that LOWERING the speed limit would reduce congestion.
why? because they thought that higher speeds made drivers more impatient and caused more traffic hold ups!

In your driving test now if you do under the speed limit and have people behind you, you will be failed for failing to keep pace with traffic....

You remind me of someone i used to work with who was adamant that the highway code was wrong and she was right. There are big sigsn on the motorway saying please pull back into the left hand lane when finished overtaking do you not read them???

It annoys my husband and myself, if people are that afraid to drive on a motorway then don't do it, take an alternative route....

Lanes are to be used not to be ignored for your safety and others.

basmic

UK2010 wrote: »

Worryingly someones thanked Meritatens posts!

Curiously enough it the person's name is oldernotwiser...

Sums it up for me, no need to ellaborate on the name and the irony of the posts they have thanked!

pulliptears

Oh someone I know does this.... she sits in the outside lane of the Dual carriageway and thinks its acceptable to use both. I've told her its the overtaking lane and really she needs to move back in but she doesnt listen.

Its so embarrassing when cars are forced to Undertake and she gives them the V's because she is adamant she is in the right!!

SallyForth_2

The overtaking rule and keeping to the left in the Highway Code works just fine on two-lane motorways, which I think is what the ruling was designed for. But when you get to more than two lanes, there should be a revision in my opinion. I have stretch of motorway near where I live which is four lanes wide. I really don't get why we should all cram into the most left-hand lane, when there a three other empty ones to use. Surely it's safer to spread out a bit?

NorhternMonkey

Kavanne wrote: »

I love changing lanes on the motorway, it's fun!! It makes me feel like I am using the motorway properly. I don't know why people are scared of it....

I always stick to the inside lane when ever possible. It drives me mad when someone pulls out into the middle lane because a lorry or slow car is a few miles up the road.

dreamypuma

SallyForth wrote: »

The overtaking rule and keeping to the left in the Highway Code works just fine on two-lane motorways, which I think is what the ruling was designed for. But when you get to more than two lanes, there should be a revision in my opinion. I have stretch of motorway near where I live which is four lanes wide. I really don't get why we should all cram into the most left-hand lane, when there a three other empty ones to use. Surely it's safer to spread out a bit?

Arghhhhhhh!!!!!! Is this a Joke?

Please throw your car keys in the bin and never go near a car, even as a passenger. Buses and trains are for you.

jdturk

SallyForth wrote: »

The overtaking rule and keeping to the left in the Highway Code works just fine on two-lane motorways, which I think is what the ruling was designed for. But when you get to more than two lanes, there should be a revision in my opinion. I have stretch of motorway near where I live which is four lanes wide. I really don't get why we should all cram into the most left-hand lane, when there a three other empty ones to use. Surely it's safer to spread out a bit?

Oh dear...........................................

Searcher

SallyForth wrote: »

The overtaking rule and keeping to the left in the Highway Code works just fine on two-lane motorways, which I think is what the ruling was designed for. But when you get to more than two lanes, there should be a revision in my opinion. I have stretch of motorway near where I live which is four lanes wide. I really don't get why we should all cram into the most left-hand lane, when there a three other empty ones to use. Surely it's safer to spread out a bit?

So it's ok to block 3 lanes with slow moving traffic which effectively turns a 4 lane motorway into a single lane road?

While we're at it why don't we pull over and have a picnic on the hard shoulder?