Britain's best kept secret (NB)

[StugeronSteve]

Britain\'s best kept secret (NB)

There's a near side lane on the motorways and hardly anyone has noticed. Suppose it's bound to get clogged up eventually, but until then..

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[tome]

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Steve

I'd spotted this also, but assumed it was for the infirm.

Enjoy!

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[jimi]

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shhh .. its the overtaking lane!

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[Ohdrat]

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nahhh it's the caravan lane.. spotted the first of the hoard today plodding it's way up into my Highland Fortress.. Now if I was a true celt I'd be pelting them with firey pitch.. ooops sorry just a wee rant..

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[kunyang]

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The hard shoulder is the best lane. Never used, just occasionaly parked on. Why is it called the 'Hard Shoulder', I've never seen one with a flick knife.

Dave

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[qsiv]

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Like the old bumper sticker you mean?

Dover for the Continent, Eastbourne for the incontinent

or, showing my age

Sod Biafra, feed Twiggy.

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[snowleopard]

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fancy a relaxing holiday? tow your boat along the inside lane of a motorway at 58mph. no carving up, no audi TT flashing you, no worries about unmarked plods, a totally relaxing experience!

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[Twister_Ken]

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Oi. Keep out of my lane.

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[Guest]

I got hanged for this one

When I mentioned about this matter not so long agao - I got bombed by the multitudes of Trilby Hat Grandparents in Morris 1100's who hog the outside lanes ...


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[DanTribe]

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But what happens when you catch up with the guy doing forty in the middle lane?
You can't legally overtake on the inside and you'r not allowed in the outside lane.
Dan

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[StugeronSteve]

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Too right. When I had a Dehler 25 I used to enjoy the tow, cruise control set at 55MPH and not a care in the world.

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[Keith]

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Ah, well you see if you had left all the small roads in with passing places that did wonders to dissuade the snail brigade from the highlands, i can remember when it used to take us two plus days to get to loch ewe from ipswich in an eleven hundred beetle (flat out seventy five, eighty if we were going down shap), this was back in the seventies and every thing was packed inside the car, then they startedwidening the roads, faster, smoother, so my dad bought a vauxhall victor and we started towing a trailer....wouldn't have dreamed of doing that befor they widened the roads.......cheers....keith

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[SlowBoat2]

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Dan,
Are you sure you are right? I thought that there has been changes that allows you to undertake if inside lane moving faster than outisde. I agree its a quandry tho if you are in inside lane and some git stubbornly sticking to 40 in middle.

Slow
ps Slow car and slow boat!

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[Boathook]

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Sounds like the M25 this evening jct 10 to 9.

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[BrendanS]

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Nothing has changed. You can only undertake in slow moving queues. Legally that is!

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[Nick2]

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Ok Brendan does that include trying to get by the wazocks who stick in the outside lane when the inside TWO are void of traffic?

Judging by the M3 the government could sell off the inside lane for redevelopment ........

This makes me so mad although Joanne does not like me flashing lights and sticking on indicators etc.

Nick

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[BrendanS]

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Check out some of the UK traffic websites. It's a common question. Legally you are in the wrong if you undertake - the traffic cops handle this question over and over. You can only do it if the traffic flow is under about 10mph, but it's a subjective judgement from the police if you do,

Me, personally, I take the chance and go for gaps in the flow

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[boatless]

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Not sure that 'slow moving' is in the definition. Read an article by the Telegraph solicitor, Fenton Bresler, who suggested that when traffic is 'moving in lanes' then undertaking could be legal. That's what I hope will get me off when I'm finally stopped in my own private lane. Lane 1 M4 London to J5 Westbound.

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[BrendanS]

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been debated many times. see traffic forums as suggested? while I wouldn't condone such behavour?

B

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[alanporter]

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So what's wrong with passing on the inside ? On my side of the Pond you can pass anyside so long as the road is marked in lanes.

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