Thursday 30th May 2002

M4 Bus Lane News!

Increasing the speed limit? Did we hear that correctly?! Bikes allowed to use it too? Whatever next?

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[bruce fielding]

Hang on... is this Blair's Britain? This actually sounds like a nasty attack of common sense. Yes, they shouldn't have done it in the first place, but even so... at least it's a start. And bikes in Bus Lanes? Gasp!

[plotloss]

This is welcome news indeed, but its still not enough. That damned abomination should be a HOV lane as well.

Matt.

[Stig]

WOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

At last those Labour dimwits see some sense. Strange that it happens as Steven Byers resigns isn't it!

Anyway, as I use it every day (on the bike) I for one will be far happier in the bus lane.

As for Plotloss' comment - NOOOOOOO!!!

Keep the HGV's where they are.

[CarZee]

HOV is high occupancy vehicle, not NGV..

IE Cars with 1 or more passengers..

Or if you're a TVR driver, 50% of seats occupied

[mad dawg]

hang on a minute:
bikes=small, light, fast, Manoeuvrable.
buses= large, heavy, slow, unwieldy

is it wise to mix these vehicles like this?? I can see a nasty accident coming up...

just a thought.

[whatever]

Maybe this is a long-planned and long-saved sweetener to ingratiate the inevitable new transport minister to the motoring public. I doubt it's a sign of things to come

But I'd like to think it was

(second thoughts, maybe they'll re-engineer the traffic flows around the area to artificially ensure that the traffic always flows at the lower speed...)

[ATG]

you can stick a flower in a turd, but the whole arrangement still stinks. Anyway, bugger it, I'm off to the pub

--- Confuscious

[mattc]

quote:
hang on a minute:
bikes=small, light, fast, Manoeuvrable.
buses= large, heavy, slow, unwieldy

is it wise to mix these vehicles like this?? I can see a nasty accident coming up...

just a thought.

Should be fine. I learned earlier today (thanks to Pistonheads) that bikers can easily cope with traffic travelling 90mph slower than them.

[Mark Benson]

Looks like their PR trick worked then.....

They fcuk up the M4 into London by reducing the motorway to 2 lanes, leave it like that for a while so we get used to it, then they give some freedom back (to bikers, who aren't as affected by the congestion as car drivers anyway) and the motoring public rejoices.
For what!?!?!? It's still a 2 lane motorway with a half empty third lane, raising the speed limit isn't going to help most of the people sat in the 5mph jam caused by the thing in the first place is it? The only time you can travel faster than walking pace on that section of the M4 is between 2 and 3am.

[DavidP]

quote:
Should be fine. I learned earlier today (thanks to Pistonheads) that bikers can easily cope with traffic travelling 90mph slower than them.

[nonegreen]

I have a vision of loads of civil servants in suits working on a chain gang building new roads and burying the likes of Swampy in the rubble. They would of course have to be supervised by guys in open top sportscars with guns just in case they try and escape

[Fatboy]

Machine guns firing exploding bullets I hope