Slow drivers

[S2red]

Was heading up to M80/KH direction via Bishopbriggs Kilsyth Banknock (the A803) 3 times over weekend and is it just me or are drivers starting to cruise along at way below the speed limit ie just over 40 in 50mph

Is it a fuel saving thing?

Its bad enough when you know the accurate speed from sat nav and they are a few mph slower OK can live with that but its getting silly

And dont start me about flashed headights when you dare to overtake on a straight bit of road)

Edited by S2red on Monday 4th July 14:36

Edited by S2red on Monday 4th July 14:37

[Mr Trophy]

It's great.

Noticed this on the Edinburgh bypass yesterday evening. Nothing in the right hand lane at all, all in the left. So, my foot when down

[anonymous-user]

S2red said:

Was heading up to M80/KH direction via Bishopbriggs Kilsyth Banknock 3 times over weekend and is it just me or are drivers starting to cruise along at way below the speed limit ie just over 40 in 50mph

Do you mean through the M80 from Bishopbriggs up through Cumbernauld to Kilsyth/Banknock, where the limit is currently 40mph with average speed cameras, that's probably why nobody was doing 50mph!

ETA reading your post again I think you might be saying you joined the M80 at Kilsyth, i.e. after the speed cameras - hope so!

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 4th July 13:32

[Terzo123]

yellowbentines said:

Do you mean through the M80 from Bishopbriggs up through Cumbernauld to Kilsyth/Banknock, where the limit is currently 40mph with average speed cameras, that's probably why nobody was doing 50mph!

ETA reading your post again I think you might be saying you joined the M80 at Kilsyth, i.e. after the speed cameras - hope so!

Edited by yellowbentines on Monday 4th July 13:32

If he joined after Kilsyth, it's 70mph

[Celt]

Im guessing it is a fuel saving thing. If people stay out my way, left hand lane, then Im not particularly bothered. If I have abit of time I sometimes just cruise along behind them. More relaxing than bombing about everywhere.

[S2red]

Bishy Kirky Kilsyth Banknock (also known as A803!)then onto M80

Have avoided roadworks for a long time now!

[anonymous-user]

Terzo123 said:

If he joined after Kilsyth, it's 70mph

I know, see my edit, realised what he meant after re-reading

[S2red]

It's Monday and was a hot weekend

[dunc_sx]

Everyone's driving 40 in 60's (not DC's) on the roads around me, bit of a pain when you want to get somewhere - you spend half your time over taking.

[amccan10]

I currently cruise along about 55mph on the motorway. Esp when commuting to work.
There's no point in driving any quicker as you catch up, or are only a few cars behind the "quicker" drivers at roundabouts / lights at the off ramp.

I don't see the point at driving quickly in busy congested roads esp when you end up in a queue in the outside lane, with reduced stopping distances, only because the middle lane is full of tts that never change lane or pull back in!!

Cruise along on the inside and save the fuel for a bit more spirited / engaging driving on the backroads

[Lawsome]

S2red said:

Is it a fuel saving thing?

Yeah, if you look round PH everyone is noticing it. Sad state of affairs, making people feel the need to do it due to the balance of the current economic climate and fuel prices

[OlberJ]

dunc_sx said:

you spend half your time over taking.

You're doing it wrong.

I spend most of my time over-taking.


Unless i'm in the pug

[neilj37]

S2red said:

And dont start me about flashed headights when you dare to overtake on a straight bit of road)

I know what you mean, overtook a slow driver the other day on a straight bit of road he was doing 45mph in a 60mph. As soon as I was passed he popped his main beam on for quite a while. Clear road, dry conditions, I guess some people don't like being overtaken !!

[Pablo16v]

neilj37 said:

S2red said:

And dont start me about flashed headights when you dare to overtake on a straight bit of road)

I know what you mean, overtook a slow driver the other day on a straight bit of road he was doing 45mph in a 60mph. As soon as I was passed he popped his main beam on for quite a while. Clear road, dry conditions, I guess some people don't like being overtaken !!

In 23 years of driving I've never experienced this although I do read about it a lot on PH. I always wonder if the overtaking manoeuvres are not quite as safe as the posters suggest or perhaps they were sitting a little bit too close to the back of the other car prior to the over-take.

[KB_S1]

Pablo16v said:

In 23 years of driving I've never experienced this although I do read about it a lot on PH. I always wonder if the overtaking manoeuvres are not quite as safe as the posters suggest or perhaps they were sitting a little bit too close to the back of the other car prior to the over-take.

Has happened to me twice. Both times very clear overtakes.
Both times looked like tourists visiting the Highlands.

[S2red]

Pablo16v said:

I always wonder if the overtaking manoeuvres are not quite as safe as the posters suggest or perhaps they were sitting a little bit too close to the back of the other car prior to the over-take.

Possible but i sometimes suspect it is the "shock" of a car going past that they have not seen behind them

Was out on an "educational" run with a Police instructor recently
Unmarked car with Alternating flashing headlamps and blues & twos on and was in response mode (not hanging about). Its amazing how many cars do not seem to see you coming and suddenly swerved out of way when they spotted you

Edited by S2red on Thursday 7th July 12:28

[amccan10]

Could be a bit of both?

It seems the norm now for people not to overtake at all so some drivers are not used to being over taken

The amount of times I've seen a long queue of cars driving very close to one another that allows no space for overtaking at all. Can be very frustrating.

I did however see some bellend in a Porsche overtake 6 cars at once the other day on the A73 outside thankerton not realising there was an oncoming car hidden by a dip in the road. It was very close!

[Pablo16v]

S2red said:

Pablo16v said:

I always wonder if the overtaking manoeuvres are not quite as safe as the posters suggest or perhaps they were sitting a little bit too close to the back of the other car prior to the over-take.

Possible but i sometimes suspect it is the "shock" of a car going past that they have not seen behind them

Was out on an "educational" run with a Police instructor recently
Unmarked car with Alternating flashing headlamps and blues & twos on and was in response mode (not hanging about). Its amazing how many cars do not seem to see you coming and suddenly swerved out of way when they spotted you

Edited by S2red on Thursday 7th July 12:28

I also wondered if these days, what with all the speed kills crap forced down our throats, whether some folk have got it into there heads that overtaking is illegal! It wouldn't surprise me.

[OlberJ]

Well by the letter of the law, if you are speeding to over-take then it is illegal. These folk see you going slightly faster and assume you are in fact braking the law.

But ask them and they'll say "dangerous driving, he was acting like a pillock, could've killed somebody".

[FamilyDub]

S2red said:

And dont start me about flashed headights when you dare to overtake on a straight bit of road

^^ Last time this happened to me, I waited for them to catch-up at the next village and asked why a perfectly safe overtake on a road with > 1 mile visability meant I got a flash? 'Ummmm...' Wab.

Folk aren't used to over-taking/being overtaken these days anywhere but on a motorway/dual carriageway.