Keep left on the motorway?

Keep left on the motorway?

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calibrax

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4,788 posts

217 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Look how effective it was giving police those new powers! rolleyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh3pTwGNPMQ

divetheworld

2,565 posts

141 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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It is very annoying reducing our motorways to only two or less lanes by sheeple and mouth breathers. If it wasn't potentially dangerous to undertake the afore mentioned retards then it would be ironic that you get done for undertaking but the mlm gets away scott free.
If there was a magic camera that caught them, I'm sure the problem would disappear almost overnight. instead we have to rely on BiB patrolling and we all know that there aren't enough police to maintain law and order.

snoopy25

1,927 posts

126 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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lol

amusing....

Turkey

381 posts

190 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Unreal, that looks worse than any group of MLMs I recall seeing. A lot of people are quite stubborn with driving habits!

Cliftonite

8,485 posts

144 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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I agree with your sentiments 100% And I do what you did.

However . . .

. . . had there been a police car about, it may well have been you they were using their powers against!

They would certainly not have been troubling the tts in lanes 2 and 3.

frown




calibrax

Original Poster:

4,788 posts

217 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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I doubt the police (anyway, what police?) would do me for undertaking in those circumstances as I wasn't weaving in and out dangerously, just making normal steady progress at the speed limit and keeping to the left, just like you are supposed to.

It's really bizarre, because the people in the other lanes were not even going at the speed limit!

If they did try and do me for undertaking I'd definitely have my day in court and submit the video evidence. I'd be very surprised if a magistrate would uphold such a charge in the circumstances...

HTP99

23,241 posts

146 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Looks like my journey home from work most evenings on the A3; I'm usually doing no more than an indicated 65-70 in lane 1.

BMRuss

1,547 posts

196 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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I would have driven the same as you.

People just aren't concentrating rather just ambling along in a world of their own.

yellowjack

17,238 posts

172 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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snoopy25 said:
lol

amusing....
But it's not a-fking-musing one little bit, though. I'm going to have to put up with weeks of 2200hrs to 0600hrs roadworks soon, while they strengthen the edges of the hard shoulder and upgrade it ready for 'managed motorway' status on the M3, because, apparently, there "isn't enough room for all the poor loves who just have to drive into London every day.

This is utter bks, there's plenty of space, or there would be if idiots didn't all drive too fast and too close to one another causing huge concertinas of braking behind them. So the solution to the (literally) millions of poor drivers out there is to give them more space in which to drive like morons and act selfishly? Give me strength! They tried that by widening sections of the M25 to 4 and 5 lanes wide, yet it makes no difference. The idiot MLMs just move out an extra lane, due to their medically proven allergy to lane 1.

This managed motorway idiocy will surely have to end when there are fatalities caused by breakdowns with no nearby refuge, or when the engineers "calculations were slightly out" and the hard shoulder starts to break up. It's folly, especially so when clips like that one from calibrax prove without doubt that the vast majority of drivers out there have nothing but contempt for the law and their fellow drivers. Round the feckin lot of them up and cull them, FFS. Idiots.

addey

1,095 posts

173 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Shame you didn't have a rear facing camera too as I bet half those idiots in lane 2 were coming off at Gatwick and probably moved into lane 1 when you'd gone past to take the exit....


fangio

989 posts

240 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Lane one - the truckers secret.....

calibrax

Original Poster:

4,788 posts

217 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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fangio said:
Lane one - the truckers secret.....
Lane one... the real "fast lane" smile

DervVW

2,223 posts

145 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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yellowjack said:
snoopy25 said:
lol

amusing....
But it's not a-fking-musing one little bit, though. I'm going to have to put up with weeks of 2200hrs to 0600hrs roadworks soon, while they strengthen the edges of the hard shoulder and upgrade it ready for 'managed motorway' status on the M3, because, apparently, there "isn't enough room for all the poor loves who just have to drive into London every day.

This is utter bks, there's plenty of space, or there would be if idiots didn't all drive too fast and too close to one another causing huge concertinas of braking behind them. So the solution to the (literally) millions of poor drivers out there is to give them more space in which to drive like morons and act selfishly? Give me strength! They tried that by widening sections of the M25 to 4 and 5 lanes wide, yet it makes no difference. The idiot MLMs just move out an extra lane, due to their medically proven allergy to lane 1.

This managed motorway idiocy will surely have to end when there are fatalities caused by breakdowns with no nearby refuge, or when the engineers "calculations were slightly out" and the hard shoulder starts to break up. It's folly, especially so when clips like that one from calibrax prove without doubt that the vast majority of drivers out there have nothing but contempt for the law and their fellow drivers. Round the feckin lot of them up and cull them, FFS. Idiots.
Aaaaand breathe!

It really is a case of going to the lowest denominator though, completely agree, more driver education would lead to better use of the limited road space.

However, I find that the older m42 managed motorway thing doesn't really work because you have to move over every time you pass a junction, but the new M6 one seems to work much better, but still there are people who don't sit in the left most lane. But in my experience it has improved the traffic.

If people just watched what was going on around them and used some comman sense, life would be much better on the commutes!

Sheepshanks

34,782 posts

125 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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calibrax said:
I doubt the police (anyway, what police?) would do me for undertaking in those circumstances as I wasn't weaving in and out dangerously, just making normal steady progress at the speed limit and keeping to the left, just like you are supposed to.
Regularly read on forums of people being stopped for doing what you did.

calibrax said:
If they did try and do me for undertaking I'd definitely have my day in court and submit the video evidence. I'd be very surprised if a magistrate would uphold such a charge in the circumstances...
I know a couple of Magistrates. They'd sentence you to death by stoning if they could.

TurboFan

120 posts

131 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Same thing happened to me today but BIB were at the front of a cue of about 5 or so middle laners. They must of been doing near enough 50mph whilst I was in lane 1 doing around 65. This was a nsl bit of road too! Nice bit of example setting right there. Cheers lads!

CambsBill

2,061 posts

184 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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It's truly depressing what has happened to driving standards in the country over the last 20 years. Just arrived back from a week driving around Germany, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium and France and the motorway/dual carriageway lane discipline I saw in every one of them was far better than in the UK. With only a few exceptions traffic was at or below the speed limit and most of the time the bulk was in the right-hand lanes, only moving over to overtake.

What's gone wrong in the UK????

340600

557 posts

149 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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The Police can't be everywhere unfortunately, especially on the motorway.

I'm not sure barreling down lane 1 in excess of the speed limit is going to encourage people to keep left either.

Cliftonite

8,485 posts

144 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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TurboFan said:
Same thing happened to me today but BIB were at the front of a cue of about 5 or so middle laners. They must of been doing near enough 50mph whilst I was in lane 1 doing around 65. This was a nsl bit of road too! Nice bit of example setting right there. Cheers lads!
Did you overtake the police car on the inside?



calibrax

Original Poster:

4,788 posts

217 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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340600 said:
The Police can't be everywhere unfortunately, especially on the motorway.

I'm not sure barreling down lane 1 in excess of the speed limit is going to encourage people to keep left either.
Except I wasn't speeding, as I already stated.

XAF

131 posts

216 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Makes my blood boil just watching that! Pull the fk over, what is so hard!!!!!!