Col Regs????

[Peppermint]

I've driven about 100 miles today.

Allegedly their is something called the "rule of the road" enshrined in something called "The Highway Code". Anybody heard of it?

Mobos and raggies do a great job by comparison.

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[StugeronSteve]

From the manner in which many expensive company cars are driven it is apparent what personality traits are valued in business today.

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[Mirelle]

Blustering incompetence comes to mind!

(160 miles a day commute - I live near a railway station and work near another - but do you suppose that I could get a train to get me to work on time, even changing 4 times? Silly question!)

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[tritonofnor]

Similar problem re:rail recently from Plymouth to York - lots of adverts for cheap fares - cheapest AVAILABLE return, booking three weeks in advance, over £125. Cost to bimble up and back in my baby Citroen approx £50, and quicker than advertised train times! Nobody travelling by rail? no surprise to me! Standard of driving on motorway pretty good actually, apart from some dodgy lane discipline... brings us back to Highway code I suppose....

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[Joe_Cole]

I suspect that the best thing to do is to tear up the rail tracks, tarmac over the lot and open it up to car drivers. While they are at it get rid of bus lanes. Take all the money thats saved on all the subsidies and spend it on something useful.

Joe

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[VicS]

Re: plymouth to york by train

Son, former York student still living and working in York. Daughter, student in Plymouth.

A while back son, who does not own car, visits daughter by train for the weekend.

Return journey total fiasco. Long delays no catering because no steward, despite stocking up on supplies at one of the early stops.

Wouldn't recommend that to anyone else.

Don't suppose Mr Branson reads this forum though.

Mind you once when travelling to York by car from home he spent most of the day on the roundabout at Swanley trying to get onto the M25 and on another occasion he spent over 2 hours at an M11 service area without even getting as far as parking the car!

I usually stay in the fast lane on motorways, the lefthand one these days!

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[SteveGorst]

dodgy lane discipline!!

A situation I find during the tourist season here is the outside lane full of people doing 50 mile an hour or less in a 70 area and the inside lane virtually empty.

Should we adopt the system used in other parts of the world where you can choose to travel at your own speed (within the limit) in any lane and not be limited by the speed of the people in the outside lane.

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[whisper]

Yes,
The same scenario exists on the M1. It's atleast as quick and much safer to travel in the nearside lane heading S. from Leics. to London in the mornings. Once into N'hants the outside lane becomes an 80 mile long nose to tail queue of prats travelling at yoyo speeds of between 30-80 mph. The inside lane seems to bowl along steadily at 55-65 and if you need to pass a truck there are lots of gaps in the middle lane that allow you to do so.
I find this far more annoying than the occasional twerp that either doesn't understand the Collision Regs on the water or else slavishly utilises them to the detriment of consideration for others.

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[halcyon]

It must be a common thing, driving on land and water getting worse. In the 80's I was doing 50,000 mile a year mainly motorway, and all the reps drove up outside lane at 80/85 mph, but all of them kept there distance between cars, and pulled over for a faster car. Today they bomb up the outside lane 10 foot between cars at 90 plus, no thought for what thay do if someone does something silly. Then you get the I'm following the rules, drives at 85 mph, but dives between the inside lane and the outside lane, no concideration for cars he passes and cuts in front off. Then you get the inside, outside overtaker, what rules? I do what suits me.
Thinking about it, it's just like boating to-day, and the differant interpretaion of col regs.

Brian

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[plombier]

Halcyon, I think you have summed the whole problem up in five words:

"I do what suits me"

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[whisper]

It's a long time since I drove in the USA but when I did it appeared to be legal to overtake on the inside on multi lane highways. Seemed to work fine as did being able to turn right at a red traffic light.

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[Mike21]

Still is , not sure that overtaking both sides is actually legal, but is accepted practice, although they tend to have signs asking people to drive on right lane

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