Campaigne for wider roads

[HertsBiker]

Anyone else tired of the bickering between road users. If the bloody roads were wider then cyclists and motorists could live in harmony. I won't get into the tax discussion here, as we all apparently pay for the roads. And so, if we pay so much, why can't we have wide luxury roads that mean we all have enough space to pass by without clashing? Surely it can't be too hard to arrange. Can't we sort this by now?

[Rich G]

I think this might be a reason why there appears to be less room on the roads today.....

Credit for photo goes to dockertrigger http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Willy Nilly]

are we going to get a bigger country to put these wider roads in too?

[Conscript]

The roads are fine. Even if they weren't, hardly practical to widen every road in the country just because some people can't judge the size of their own cars accurately.

[john2443]

It's going to be tricky moving all the buildings back a few feet

[Toltec]

Given this is really about urban roads how easy do you think it would be to get people to give up the frontage of there houses?

On roads with houses without front gardens would it be ok to knock down the properties on one side?

Fair enough, campaign for new roads in new estates to be wider, but even then trying to convince a developer to reduce the number of houses and therefore their profit is not going to be easy.

[The Moose]

How are these going to be paid for?!

[skyrover]

Rich G said:

I think this might be a reason why there appears to be less room on the roads today.....

Credit for photo goes to dockertrigger http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

last time I checked, the lanes were the same width

The UK needs more lanes on it's motorways though... that is without doubt

[Conscript]

skyrover said:

last time I checked, the lanes were the same width

The UK needs more lanes on it's motorways though... that is without doubt

Again, no it doesn't. There's plenty of lanes, but no bugger knows how to use them properly.

[Dammit]

Nationwide ban on parking on the street, at any time, for any period of time, would probably do the trick (in many ways).

[skyrover]

Conscript said:

skyrover said:

last time I checked, the lanes were the same width

The UK needs more lanes on it's motorways though... that is without doubt

Again, no it doesn't. There's plenty of lanes, but no bugger knows how to use them properly.

Than the desperate attempt to get more lanes on the cheap by utilizing the hard shoulder was a waste of time?

Actually... yes it was, for obvious reasons.

[Conscript]

skyrover said:

Than the desperate attempt to get more lanes on the cheap by utilizing the hard shoulder was a waste of time?

Actually... yes it was, for obvious reasons.

Yup.
Government spends billions expanding the road space, everyone sits in lane 3 still. Loads of work for nothing.

[Matt UK]

Small island
High population density
More cars on the road driving more miles
Cars are getting bigger
Driving standards getting worse
80% of existing road network built on top of the tracks used by horses and carts back in the day

[NotNormal]

Surely the point is for manufacturers to stop creating bigger and bigger cars?

A new model does not have to be bigger than the outgoing one for it to be better!

[Dammit]

Given that people are getting fatter and fatter I suspect that each generation of new car DOES need to be bigger.

[J4CKO]

The answer is more people cycling !

[R8VXF]

e roads I can deal with just fine, it is the bloody parking spaces that need to be bigger. My car is longer than 99% of the fecking things.

[Rich G]

R8VXF said:

e roads I can deal with just fine, it is the bloody parking spaces that need to be bigger. My car is longer than 99% of the fecking things.

Buy a smaller car...

[MrB1obby]

J4CKO said:

The answer is more people cycling !

If there were only lorries, vans, buses, motorbikes and cyclists there would be much more room. People are too lazy.

[TooMany2cvs]

HertsBiker said:

If the bloody roads were wider then cyclists and motorists could live in harmony.

Only if you're not giving cyclists enough room. If you are, then you still need a clear lane to pass them, not just an extra few inches.