People not knowing how to use motorways properly.

JohalaReewi

Delphinum wrote: »

I saw someone driving along the M40 with fog lights on in normal driving conditions past 2 police cars and neither of them even bothered about it.

Right outside the Police Station in Eastleigh, there is a no right turn. You would be amazed at the number of drivers who turn right. Even with the Police watching them out of the window. Needless to say, I have never seen the Police nip out to have a word with them.

arcon5

stephen77 wrote: »

Some is standing in a door way and you want to get past and they have not moved for 1 minutes - (the doorway consists of two doors and they are consuming just one side)?
a) keep waiting for them to move
say excuse me as you want to get through the door
c) tell them to get the fu**** out of the way.
d) use other empty door

I've corrected the extremely poor example for you.

A more appropriate question would be:
'Someone is walking down the street, you want to walk faster and the pavements are quiet and very wide, what would you do?....'

Also comparing your situation to an emergency vehicle is barmy. The emergency vehicle HAS to get the the destination as quickly as possible -- you don't.

gwapenut

Dave_C wrote: »

d) Go through the unblocked doorway just to the right of the blocked doorway.

Option d added to make it relevant to this thread.

You've hit the nail on the head though. The trouble with all this, and part of the reason we need to keep widening motorways (or to use your analogy, waste money adding redundant doors next to existing doors) is because many people are selfish and do not use the motorway lanes properly.

Sure, by all means, build wider and wider pavements or create more and more doors. But surely it is more cost effective for the powers that be to help people use the motorway lanes more effectively.

stephen77

Dave_C wrote: »

Option d added to make it relevant to this thread.

Unfortunatly lots of boy racers keep flying through this door not allowing me to use the right hand door, I am not going fast enough to keep with their flow and do not want to hold up other people.

stephen77

arcon5 wrote: »

I've corrected the extremely poor example for you.

A more appropriate question would be:
'Someone is walking down the street, you want to walk faster and the pavements are quiet and very wide, what would you do?....'

Who said the pavement was always empty!

The same people still sit in the middle lane when traffic is busy. They are going no faster, some times slower than the lorry on the left hand lane. The right hand lane is going faster but as busy there is not a safe space to move into. You get stuck the middle lane. There is mass of space in front of the other car and many people in the right hand lane pull over once past the middle lane driver.

Squire_Fulwood

Happily I have little or no reason to drive on motorways any more.

My opinion is that everyone knows how to drive on motorways but it is the opinion of everyone that no-one else does. What I used to dislike most was the driver who thought he could teach the other drivers how to behave by cutting in, undertaking, driving in square waves to show that you should relinquish the lane even when there is no need.

People who take too much notice of the other driver's behaviour should be looked at quite closely. They always had the option of backing off and doing their own thing and stop whingeing.

I think there should be a traffic ticket for intolerence.

MothballsWallet

LittleVoice wrote: »

Was that tongue in cheek?

Did you ever read the Highway Code?

Important bits, yes, more than most drivers I see.

(Here's a hint: take the dmmed phone off your ear, take the indicator stalk out of your nose and concentrate on, you know, the road.)

techno12

Carl31 wrote: »

a friend told me the other day that his ex genuinely thought that each lane was used dependent on speed you are travelling :

70mph in the left lane
80 in the middle
90 in the right

lol

im not really sure how she came up with that one.

That's pretty much how it is though in the real world, and I've used that as a rule of thumb for 20 years. Works for me.

JohalaReewi

techno12 wrote: »

That's pretty much how it is though in the real world, and I've used that as a rule of thumb for 20 years. Works for me.

Back in the old days, it was 50, 60 and 70 mph. I guess that is inflation for you.

philmewagon

I just ignore anyone that is sat in an overtaking lane, in most cases I will simply undertake them.

In 99% of cases as soon as you undertake the vehicle in question it will pull into the left hand lane.

Occasionally you will get a driver that will wait until you are level then put their indicator on to move in: I also ignore these drivers.

There is also a species of driver who (trying desperately not to stereotype too much here) seems to feel it is their right to drive in the middle/outer lane. Invariably these drivers are in high end brands. These drivers are the most likely to speed up as you approach on their left to undertake.

Am I driving dangerously when I undertake? Maybe, but I refuse to have my time wasted by drivers that cannot drive within the basic rules of the road - im certainly not going to sit behind someone politely for miles waiting for them to pull in, and I find people respond negatively to being flashed.

Easier to ignore them imo.