Stopping on the hard shoulder

Scooby_Doo.

Happytohelp wrote: »

Whilst I am on the subject, if you are joining the motorway from an entry sliproad and your access to lane one is blocked, do not brake and stop at the end of the slip road. If you run out of sliproad and it is safe to do so, maintain your speed and continue onto the hard shoulder. Join the motorway as soon as you are able to safely move into lane one.

Where did you get that from?

Catherine_Johnson_2

On most motorway slip roads I've been on, at the junction with the motorway it says GIVE WAY on the slip road. Nowhere have I seen where it says CONTINUE ON THE HARD SHOULDER. As far as I'm aware, the hard shoulder is for emergency use only, not for the convenience of drivers who don't wish to stop or give way to other traffic.

Catherine_Johnson_2

Outpost wrote: »

Ah the simple pleasures of peeing into a pop bottle as a child during a car journey.

Great if you can manage it!!!! Some of us can't......

Catherine_Johnson_2

mikey72 wrote: »

Before seat belts, you could just stand up and go out of the window.

That accounts for 50% of the population, but for the rest of us we just have to cross our legs and hope!

adouglasmhor

gazebo wrote: »

what happens in the case of the M8 around Glasgow south where they have turned the hard shoulder into a new lane? traffic entering from the slip road is driving on the old hard shoulder - thus nowhere really to stop, and folk can still be belting up in that lane.

Not so safe

Glasgow might as well be another planet as far as motorway driving is concerned, Only motorway junctions in the UK AFAIK where you can join or leave the motorway on the right.

Flyboy152

This reminds me of an old public information film about motorways, just after the M6 opened. The public were being warned about not stopping on the hard shoulder to hold a family picnic. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

spiro

Catherine_Johnson wrote: »

Great if you can manage it!!!! Some of us can't......

You can if you get the special shaped bottles they sell in those catalogues inside newspapers.

rev_henry

Flyboy152 wrote: »

This reminds me of an old public information film about motorways, just after the M6 opened. The public were being warned about not stopping on the hard shoulder to hold a family picnic. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

OH YES! £20 fine!

Lum

pendulum wrote: »

This is an alarming post if you hold a driver's licence.

Joining a motorway from a non-sliproad, you say? Sliproads tend to be the only way on or off a motorway. Give-way junctions, which you may be thinking of, can be found on dual carriageways. Hopefully you know the difference.

Ever tried to use M50 J3? I'd describe that as a non-sliproad.
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/50-4221/

As for the situation the OP describes. I suspect the people in question don't know what the (M) means in A1(M) and think they are still on an A road.

gazebo

I'd forgotten about the right hand slip road - it nearly caught me out the other week when in a works van!