Any opinions on the new M4 layout?

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specifically the Cardiff West junction?

They have used the existing hard shoulder as a 'dedicated lane' for the junction (thereby making the M4 4-laned for that stretch of road) and made 'intermittent' new hard shoulders with "SOS only" written on them.

Seems like a reasonable idea to me, since there often seemed to be queues in lane 1.

Any other opinions?

[chutmun]

I was about to be pedantic, and say that it's the Cardiff West rather than Llantrisant junction, but since I mostly travel east of the Llantrisant junction, I can't be sure if it's not both.

Maybe I should try driving into Cardiff on a Saturday to gauge whether the new lane is working efficiently.

Talking about Pencoed with regard to speed cameras etc. one Saturday a few weeks back, between Pencoed and Llantrisant there were three sets of either camera or traffic police. Seemed a bit like overkill to me!

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gopher said:

It starts at the Llantrisant-m4 entrance east bound and continues then up the Cardiff West exit ramp.

Of course it does!

I was thinking of it only as an extra exit to CW not what it actaully is Can't shift these preconceived ideas even when they're complete 5hite!