Stopping on the hard shoulder

jase1

Flyboy152 wrote: »

I was always taught that the on "slip-road," is actually an acceleration lane and the off "slip-road," is a deceleration lane.

Absolutely. Not the other way around :rotfl:

There are of course some "give way" junctions that look like slip roads on dual carriageways. These are entirely different, and usually have low speed limits of 30 or 40mph anyway. These need to be treated with caution as you are often driving straight onto a DC with poor visibility. But they clearly have give way symbols on the road and on signs.

The other implication of this, which you allude to in the second part of your comment, is that people who brake (sometimes quite hard) on motorways just before exiting onto the slip-road need to be strung up as well. You start decelerating (to any great degree) only once you've passed the dotted white line.