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tuffer

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8,943 posts

288 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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dazren

22,612 posts

282 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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Fan"bloody"tastic.

I hope this initiative spreads nationwide.

DAZ

Imelda

793 posts

287 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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Police say motorists who sit in the fast lane.....


IT'S NOT THE FLICKIN' FAST LANE!!

tuffer

Original Poster:

8,943 posts

288 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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Imelda said:

Police say motorists who sit in the fast lane.....


IT'S NOT THE FLICKIN' FAST LANE!!


It certainly isnt on the M3 between 7am - 9am thats for sure!!!

Podie

46,647 posts

296 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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er... good choice of pic!



'cos that shows someone blocking someone else...!

Don

28,378 posts

305 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2623265.stm



In many cases police say motorists are totally unaware they have broken laws governing the areas like changing lanes and using fog lights.



Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! Go get 'em, boys!

s2ooz

3,005 posts

305 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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am I dreaming? could this really finally get sorted?!!

about bloody time.

Size Nine Elm

5,167 posts

305 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2681457.stm

I do hope they enforce this north of the border too...

danger mouse

3,828 posts

282 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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Hoorah!

tuffer

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Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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s2ooz said: am I dreaming? could this really finally get sorted?!!

about bloody time.


Crazy is'nt it, someone makes a reasoned and logical anouncement and we all stand and gawp in amazment, just shows how far this country has gone to bend over and take it from Europe and all the bl00dy lefty do-gooders (and they are the one's hogging the middle lane, they wont go any faster because they have sandels on and the acelerator peddle is hurting their foot). Thats it im in rant mode, you can send all these bl**dy so called asylum seekers back as well. We need to look out for our own pensioners and sick before we start handing out cash to these money grabbing parasites, persecuted my arse, they should take a quick trip to Bosnia and see the conditions people had to live in their and you dont see hordes of them coming through the tunnel.

granville

18,764 posts

282 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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dazren said: Fan"bloody"tastic.

I hope this initiative spreads nationwide.

DAZ


D I T T O !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arrest them, fine them, throw them in a cell and then beat them up.

At bloody sodding last. YEsssssssssssssss!!!

swilly

9,699 posts

295 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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Has the proverbial worm turned. This is excellent news.

soulpatch

4,693 posts

279 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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I will let you all know how it goes here in Devon when it starts.

This has got to be the most sensible announcement ever made!!!

cotty

41,707 posts

305 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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I would love to know the reasons they come out with as to why they are lane hogging. Jasper Carrot could do with some new material

Fatboy

8,247 posts

293 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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Hope it spreads out nationwide as well - the very thought of it had all my office cheered up. About time too

DennisTheMenace

15,605 posts

289 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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Excellent news ! ABOUT BLOODY TIME !
i had to follow some old codger down an NSL road today at 25 30 mph everytime i tried to overtake he would block the road so i couldnt get past made me but then when he got to a 30 limit he sped up out of sight but as i came round a corner i had a beautiful sight of codger in a layby having a chat with the BIB hope they took him to the nearest vets and had him put down

CarZee

13,382 posts

288 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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tuffer said:It certainly isnt on the M3 between 7am - 9am thats for sure!!!
Oh I dunno... there are good and bad stretches, but one can get upto stupid speeds quite comfortably some times on there..

As for lane discipline though... wossat then?

This is incredibly good news in principle, but just to take the shine off it, who's going to enforce this? Cameras can't feckin' do it and police don't have funding or manpower for motorway patrols anymore....

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tuffer

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Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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CARZEE SAID "As for lane discipline though... wossat then?"

My wife does the A303 - M3 from Andover to Basingstoke every morning, she hogs the inside lane and nips out to overtake the occasional lorry or slow mover, its a novel approach that seems to work as she reckons on average she gets ahead of 40 -50 cars (sad, she counts to pass time) before jct9. And thats in her Ibiza 1.2, so all those rep-mobiles in the outside lane are going nowhere fast.......but then we all knew that!!!!

rich-uk

1,431 posts

277 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2003
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As for who's going to police this, I suppose they'll have all these officers from the burglary division available for other work now...

daved

234 posts

305 months

Thursday 23rd January 2003
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Why don't they pop one of these leaflets into the envelope with your car tax reminder? Might help get the message across. Of course, I always read all the leaflets they enclose.