@ Phantomfighter - the M4 is like that 90% of the time, in my experience. It's the motorway equivalent of NIMBYism - everyone thinks somebody else should be the one to move over...
I sometimes wonder if it isn't more a case of "Anything you say will be taken down and may be used in evidence". :smile:
Make it legal to undertake and raise the speed limiters fitted to the trucks (when on motorways) to 70. The current middle lane hoggers will then keep left because they wont like being overtaken both sides. Raise the speed limit for cars and bikes to 80mph. That should get things moving.
The biggest problem on the motorways is that there are simply too many people on them. We've had roadhogs since the dawn of the motor car, and nothing's gonna change that. What we need is more roads.
No, what we need is for transport to go massively by rail freeing up the roads for people like me. You just don't want all those trucks on the roads, believe me. Quite apart from getting stuck behind them, they cave the roads in.
It would be a bit of a silent forum if we didn't. And if we're going to just spout PC bollox and not say what we really think, it would also be highly dull.
Amended for you. No point in pussying about with an 80 mph speed limit when most people are already doing 80 mph or more. In a 30 limit, the limit is 30 and we all know it. In a 70 limit, the limit is variable in practice and no one really knows what it is (i.e., the speed you have to be going to set off cameras or get a ticket.) It would be simpler if these things were clearer. If you're not going to enforce a 70 mph limit, don't have one. Have a proper limit that will be enforced, or don't have one at all. On the M25 - M26 - M20 on Wednesday it was just infuriating. Total standstill or slow moving congestion, then finally when it cleared, a 50 mph "variable speed limit" on a 3 or 4 lane motorway. Frustration? You betcha.
I'm hoping the long arm of the law doesn't reach as far as Switzerland. :smile: Anyway, I'm not exactly Ghostrider - just ride the thing as any sportsbike owner does. Because that's why we bought them in the first place.
Agree with you about the de facto speed limits. When a motorway is operating beyond its capacity 'traffic waves' of stationary vehicles occur which migrate backwards up the motorway caused by drivers travelling too fast for the conditions and suddenly braking, this causes delay and risks mass pile ups. Under these conditions variable limits make absolute sense. You should have come north of Kendal Glidd
those traffic waves occur around junctions or the decision making areas ....funnily enough because of poor decision making poor observation no anticipation and piss poor planning.....
I always suspected as much. We reap the problems from people being incapable of driving. The amount of time you spend following a vehicle on the motorway which spends all its time braking because it is too close to the car in front and seemingly incapable of looking ahead to predict what is coming.
...Combined with the sheer number of cars on the road. Humans just don't seem to be able to work at close quarters, we need space. Something we don't have in the UK.
