Country Roads

Minrich

Also living in Suffolk i have always had cars with low profile tyres and alloy wheels etc . The country roads around Suffolk are in a disgusting state with the edges crumbling away leaving deep holes on the edges. I have now bought a car with much larger profile tyres and drive away from the edges , this is because i have received two damaged alloy wheels and punctures . Also most deaths are on country roads due to the national speed limit farce. Roads can have national speed limits but not be wide enough for 2 cars to pass !

Cornucopia

Have I missed something? How is it inconvenient to you if an oncoming driver stops their car to let you pass?

I certainly recognise the scenario, and just put it down to the other driver not being confident about judging the gap, or (possibly) looking at me in my small SUV and not trusting my ability to judge the gap. I think there is a tendency to look at 4x4s and other tall vehicles and to assume that they are wide as well as tall, which is not generally the case.

150940

Minrich wrote: »

Also living in Suffolk i have always had cars with low profile tyres and alloy wheels etc . The country roads around Suffolk are in a disgusting state with the edges crumbling away leaving deep holes on the edges. I have now bought a car with much larger profile tyres and drive away from the edges , this is because i have received two damaged alloy wheels and punctures . Also most deaths are on country roads due to the national speed limit farce. Roads can have national speed limits but not be wide enough for 2 cars to pass !

Just wait until your county catch up with the rest of the country and all your roads have a 50 limit. Oh hold on, they're making the wider roads 50 but for some reason not touching the ones wide enough for one vehicle. So are still national, pure madness.

Cornucopia

The amount of tin required for 50 signs & repeaters on all those tiny roads is greater than the entire production of Bolivia (or something).

They should probably reduce the National Speed limit to 40 on single carriageway roads without a central white line.

peter_the_piper

Cornucopia wrote: »

They should probably reduce the National Speed limit to 40 on single carriageway roads without a central white line.

Been saying this for years, many roads in E. Sussex are like this.

150940

Cornucopia wrote: »

The amount of tin required for 50 signs & repeaters on all those tiny roads is greater than the entire production of Bolivia (or something).

They should probably reduce the National Speed limit to 40 on single carriageway roads without a central white line.

Instead they've upped it from 40 to 50 for trucks.

facade

Cornucopia wrote: »

Have I missed something? How is it inconvenient to you if an oncoming driver stops their car to let you pass?

The inconvenience is that they stop so far from their edge of the lane that you can't pass, unless you drive into the hedge, whereas if they actually stayed on their own side you could pass them at 60mph with 3 feet to spare.

peter12345678910

You also get narrow roads where cars are parked on both sides of the road. I find it is easier not to judge the distance, but to check the distance between wing mirrors. Also the other driver will usually look at you looking at the mirrors, so he will push his or her mirror in.

rev_henry

force_ten wrote: »

I live in a very rural area and i mean it is something like 60 miles to the nearest dual carriageway so mos of my driving is on rural roads

I know every inch of the roads around here and do not really have an issue in the van or the car because I know where i can pass a car or where i have to yield to a larger vehicle

the biggest problem is strangers that don't know the road and often a less that clean windscreen makes it hard for them to judge the gap and as a result they are often over cautious causing frustration to others

This. I learnt to drive on country roads, most of them I know like the back of my hand. I find the opposite is also true. I know when I can blat it and when I need to slow down to 20. People coming the other way don't and come round blind narrow bends far too quickly.

rudekid48 wrote: »

The real problem with country roads is the yokels that tear round them and show no consideration to others that are not familiar with the roads.

No comment.

Strider590

Country roads at night, you can do them at the 60 limit with ease, just so long as you don't use the main beams.