Motorway lanes

[grumpy52]

Travelling on the M25 at about 10pm last night a police Traffic BMW estate came cruising past with the rear display telling drivers to use the correct lane.
Any motorists ignoring the advice had the police car slow infront of them and get a full light display (blues and reds).
Was between jct 9 and jct6 so must be Surrey plod ?
Good to see a force doing some old style traffic policing not just handing tickets out .
I was a goodboy , lane one 68mph ! (test lwb transit running in eco mode which is 70mph indicated max speed)

[Johnnytheboy]

That is very heartening.

[ging84]

did it also say keep left unless over taking?
otherwise it seems fairly pointless as the problem is a lot of drivers need reminding what the correct lane is rather than just a reminder that they need to use it

[Landshark]

There's only so much you can put on the matrix boards!!
Many get stopped and advised or ticketed if it's particularly bad.

ETA : The boards can say 'use correct lane' or 'don't hog lanes'.

Edited by Landshark on Friday 9th May 17:21

[grumpy52]

It was fairly quiet on the road , for the M25, but the Middle Lane Owners Club was very much in evidence .

[robinessex]

This was done many years ago, but I heard it was abadoned because it caused to many drivers to swerve left into the correct lane to violently, and an accident resulted..........!

[caziques]

grumpy52 said:

Travelling on the M25 at about 10pm last night a police Traffic BMW estate came cruising past with the rear display telling drivers to use the correct lane.
Any motorists ignoring the advice had the police car slow infront of them and get a full light display (blues and reds).
Was between jct 9 and jct6 so must be Surrey plod ?
Good to see a force doing some old style traffic policing not just handing tickets out .
I was a goodboy , lane one 68mph ! (test lwb transit running in eco mode which is 70mph indicated max speed)

Driving a LWB Transit at 68 is an offence - speed limit is 60. Presumably a typing error, you were of course driving at 58.

[SlackBladder]

caziques said:

Driving a LWB Transit at 68 is an offence - speed limit is 60. Presumably a typing error, you were of course driving at 58.

News to me, 70 on a motorway, 60 on a NSL dual carriageway.

[TPS]

caziques said:

grumpy52 said:

Travelling on the M25 at about 10pm last night a police Traffic BMW estate came cruising past with the rear display telling drivers to use the correct lane.
Any motorists ignoring the advice had the police car slow infront of them and get a full light display (blues and reds).
Was between jct 9 and jct6 so must be Surrey plod ?
Good to see a force doing some old style traffic policing not just handing tickets out .
I was a goodboy , lane one 68mph ! (test lwb transit running in eco mode which is 70mph indicated max speed)

Driving a LWB Transit at 68 is an offence - speed limit is 60. Presumably a typing error, you were of course driving at 58.

Erm no it's not.

Might need to check your facts before making a statement like that.

[mygoldfishbowl]

70 on a motorway, 60 on a NSL dual carriageway.


With no smart remarks.

[Eagerbeaver]

Well done plod. This is what it wasn't my taxes to be spent on. Nice to know the job is being done.

[mybrainhurts]

Is there a reason for all small, young Muslim women drivers to sit planted in lane 3 of 4?

Is it a culture thing that cannot be challenged, or what?

I've lost count of the number I've encountered and no kind of hint ever gets through to them.

[robinessex]

It probably wasn't them that sat the driving test, a substitute most likely. Probably get shot for this, but in the days when I worked in East London, the absolutely worse drivers were arab/colored ladies taking the kids to school. Really were Kamikaze drivers.

[10 Pence Short]

mybrainhurts said:

Is there a reason for all small, young Muslim women drivers to sit planted in lane 3 of 4?

Is it a culture thing that cannot be challenged, or what?

I've lost count of the number I've encountered and no kind of hint ever gets through to them.

Think yourself lucky it wasn't god penguins you encountered. They're liable to do more or less anything other than what you'd expect.

[shakotan]

robinessex said:

Really were Kamikaze drivers.

They'd be Japanese, surely?

[grumpy52]

Round past Clackets tonight about 8pm and it was a regular disco !
Only problem ? All hgv's in lane 1 +2 3+4 empty and flashes going off right left and centre ! Must be fooked !