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doleawg
Member Since: 30 Jul 2008
Location: UK
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[rant] Why do we bother building 3 lane motorways in the UK and no  seems to want to use the inside lane  . I like the French idea, sit in the middle lane you either get cut up or flashed of the road but you soon learn not to in the inside lane. 
They have just spent millions of £'s changing the 2 lane section of the M4 north of Cardiff from 2 lanes to 3, what was the point and no one uses the inside lane.
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 7th Mar 2010 12:10 pm |
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MacLeod 313
Member Since: 18 Apr 2008
Location: away
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Now lets not confuse the Welsh, its obvious the are only used to tracks and  , spending ALL that money on the M4 and then put signs up in MARTIAN language. Its a godsend we can return to the fatherland for free, but a joke to pay to bring normality into the land of the sheep 
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| 7th Mar 2010 12:15 pm |
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doleawg
Member Since: 30 Jul 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 768
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Interesting a Scotsman calling England the 'fatherland' 
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| 7th Mar 2010 12:17 pm |
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MacLeod 313
Member Since: 18 Apr 2008
Location: away
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, but I live in England, but to get to the fatherland I need to pass through there too.
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| 7th Mar 2010 12:19 pm |
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GlosBoy
Member Since: 16 Oct 2009
Location: Chandlers Ford
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We should have the same system as the US, undertake when safe.
Works around the M4/M25 as soon as you get past Reading without issues. D4 HSE - Aintree Green
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| 7th Mar 2010 1:19 pm |
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pagoda
Member Since: 13 Aug 2009
Location: Not London Anymore (or the US for that matter)
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[quoteWe should have the same system as the US, undertake when safe.[/quote]
The US don't have a system. Having had the joy of living and working there for a number of years, we're amazing drivers by comparison.
Having also lived in Germany for many years, those guys get my vote. If you're in an outside lane going slower than someone who is going faster, you move. There's a bit of flashing of lights, and tail-gating and true, when they crash no one walks away, but they do behave on motorways and don't block lanes. PAGODA
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| 7th Mar 2010 1:26 pm |
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GlosBoy
Member Since: 16 Oct 2009
Location: Chandlers Ford
Posts: 2444
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I have done same in a couple of states and never had an issue. Much more courtious on the roads and traffic flows a lot better
Ok, this has been in remote areas such as Minnesota, North Carolina etc . Do admit around the areas of DC its a little different
The American's can even eat ice-cream, put on make-up and still get around D4 HSE - Aintree Green
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| 7th Mar 2010 1:34 pm |
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crews control
Member Since: 18 Mar 2007
Location: Dorset
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GlosBoy wrote:We should have the same system as the US, undertake when safe.
Works around the M4/M25 as soon as you get past Reading without issues.
I too admired and thought it was OK to undertake in the States until I was stopped by the highway patrol for it recently. Seems there aren't many States where it's legal to do so... it's just that everyone does it - Maybe we should just start doing the same over here? - Once 80% of drivers accept it, then everyone will think it's legal anyway!
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| 7th Mar 2010 2:11 pm |
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lee01277
Member Since: 06 May 2005
Location: Shed
Posts: 821
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It should be the law that everyone drives for a week somewhere in India. After that NOTHING will ever upset you again ..............Somewhere in-between my old D3 and what's to come next .........
Last edited by lee01277 on 7th Mar 2010 9:39 pm. Edited 1 time in total
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| 7th Mar 2010 6:27 pm |
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NoDo$h
Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
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I use the inside lane a lot. Just no fecker will let you out in the half mile leading up to the slow-moving crane.
Another favourite is when a 3 goes down to a 2-lane. Just at the restriction, some clown will pull out from the inside lane.....
I love watching this - can see it coming a mile off. Why others can't is beyond me  I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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| 7th Mar 2010 8:15 pm |
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chrisc
Member Since: 18 Oct 2009
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 362
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that sounds just like the start of the a50 in stoke near the brittania stadium,its dog eat dog, the bigger the car the better 
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| 7th Mar 2010 8:24 pm |
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JF Lux
Member Since: 08 Sep 2007
Location: A little country in Europe
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lee01277 wrote:It should be the law that everyone drives for a week somewhere in India. After that NOTHING will after upset you again
Ain't that the truth  The next American ex-pat that calls it a "truck" is going to find out what 2.7 tons feels like on their foot...
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| 7th Mar 2010 8:24 pm |
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astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
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lee01277 wrote:It should be the law that everyone drives for a week somewhere in India. After that NOTHING will ever upset you again
China is not much better. In the last two years or so I've been travelling there, the increase in cars is a massive jump but the quality of driving is appalling. At night they either drive with every single light attached to the car switched on so you have rear fogs, front main beam, hazards, spots, everything or they drive with no lights on whatsoever "to conserve energy".
The 'private' taxi's are often a mini-van with crates for seats........ (qualification for being a taxi driver is "I have a car" - if you ask at hotel reception for a taxi they will invariably phone a relative or a friend of a friend not a taxi firm. 60klicks in a taxi costs about £8, a 'private' car is much the same but without a receipt or liability....)
However buses are OK and a 60km journey into Beijing costs less than 80p on a modern, air-conditioned coach.
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| 8th Mar 2010 10:04 am |
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Dexter
Member Since: 21 Sep 2007
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 1391
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What's a motorway? Nearest 3 lane carriageway to me is over 150 miles away 
Loads worse towing a tintent, you've no chance of being let out into the middle lane to pass anything. Oh how I look forward to our annual Easter trip to the Lakes All other trips tend to be North or West of Aberdeen where a crawler lane is seen as major progress.
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| 8th Mar 2010 12:39 pm |
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al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10297
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do Oz still have "passing law", were it is/was an offence to be in an outside if no one was in the inner lanes?
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| 9th Mar 2010 9:33 am |
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