Last minute slip road diving. Is it a Northern thing?

45 posts & 31 voices | Started 3 hours ago by mcmoonter | Latest reply from Trekster

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nealglover - Member

West Yorkshire is pretty bad

We are proud of it too

Posted 2 hours ago #
scaredypants - Member

Just to derail the family menage for a moment,

in the south we prefer our drivers to bimble down the entirety of the sliproad at 35 mph and pull onto the motorway 2nd lane (triple/quadruple carriageway as we've all got cars )

Belgian driver presumably only survived as driver is on the left in them remoaner cars. Oh, and ...

Posted 2 hours ago #
squirrelking - Member

Scardeypants, didn't you get the memo? It's a slip road, not a drag strip!

Posted 2 hours ago #
scaredypants - Member

squirrel: HC 259, point 2 ?

(I also missed out the important point ... "without looking at all" )

Posted 2 hours ago #
garage-dweller - Member

I believe that what mcmoonter describes is compulsory for at least 18% of all users of the M27 and M3. Of those at least half must cross the hatchings during the manouevre.

A further 17% must drive past a half mile long gap (hogging the middle lane at all times) before overtaking someone and then hauling on the anchors and swerving across into a gap that would have been plenty big enough had they not swung in to it still going 30mph faster than the car that is now straight in front of them but now seems alarmingly bigger and closer than it did 2 seconds ago.

Edited too long and self-indulgent!

Posted 1 hour ago #

cinnamon_girl - Member

I believe that what mcmoonter describes is compulsory for at least 18% of all users of the M27 and M3. Of those at least half must cross the hatchings during the manouevre.

You need to include the M3/A34 split, a flippin' nightmare.

Posted 1 hour ago #
scotroutes - Member

It's obviously NOT a Northern thing because here in the North there are no 3 lane roads.

Posted 1 hour ago #
Rich_s - Member

Motorways are dual carriageways...

A controversial point milud...
A38(M) may be the only non central reservationed motorway in the UK? However I'm not sure if they ever run it without the central lane clear which might still make it a dual carriageway.

I'll shut up.

Posted 1 hour ago #
nealglover - Member

A38(M)

Correct. Motorway but single carriageway.

But only a couple of miles, and never run without a lane gap as a “central reservation”

Posted 1 hour ago #
Trekster - Member

M8.....
A1 Alfreton junction..............

Posted 37 minutes ago #

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