What's the (variable) speed limit?
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Ah but on some stretches the gantry shows a lesser speed in say lane 1, where there is a queuing slip road or the lane is particularly slow. The limit is relevant to the lane below it then surely?
Otherwise in my scenario above what is to stop me(apart from the queue) from ignoring the lesser speed and doing the higher one.
Otherwise in my scenario above what is to stop me(apart from the queue) from ignoring the lesser speed and doing the higher one.
barker22 said:
Ah but on some stretches the gantry shows a lesser speed in say lane 1, where there is a queuing slip road or the lane is particularly slow. The limit is relevant to the lane below it then surely?
Otherwise in my scenario above what is to stop me(apart from the queue) from ignoring the lesser speed and doing the higher one.
I'd say common sense would be one of the things that should stop you. Otherwise in my scenario above what is to stop me(apart from the queue) from ignoring the lesser speed and doing the higher one.
LoonR1 said:
barker22 said:
Ah but on some stretches the gantry shows a lesser speed in say lane 1, where there is a queuing slip road or the lane is particularly slow. The limit is relevant to the lane below it then surely?
Otherwise in my scenario above what is to stop me(apart from the queue) from ignoring the lesser speed and doing the higher one.
I'd say common sense would be one of the things that should stop you. Otherwise in my scenario above what is to stop me(apart from the queue) from ignoring the lesser speed and doing the higher one.
The M6 has been a mess lately as the variable limits had been mixed with road work signs - there were times when the gantry said 40 and a fixed roadwork sign between gantries said 50.
LoonR1 said:
barker22 said:
Ah but on some stretches the gantry shows a lesser speed in say lane 1, where there is a queuing slip road or the lane is particularly slow. The limit is relevant to the lane below it then surely?
Otherwise in my scenario above what is to stop me(apart from the queue) from ignoring the lesser speed and doing the higher one.
I'd say common sense would be one of the things that should stop you. Otherwise in my scenario above what is to stop me(apart from the queue) from ignoring the lesser speed and doing the higher one.
I'm off to share my findings with the pepipoo gods. I will be treated like the messiah with my new found technicality that gets me off all speeding charges
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