Dual carriageway lane discipline - rant
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Oh, just the normal widely spaced slow traffic in the inside, along with tightly packed bunches of cars in the outside lane. Headed up, of course, by a 65mph metrocity that won't move left for fear of having to change lanes 10 minutes later to overtake another pesky lorry. Of course, there's miles of empty road in front of said metro.
Made a million times worse by Christmas holiday drivers.
I had cause to redesignate a number of clumps of cars to be "traffic queue situations" and bugger off up the inside leaving them all to it, finding myself in miles of space as a result.
Made a million times worse by Christmas holiday drivers.
I had cause to redesignate a number of clumps of cars to be "traffic queue situations" and bugger off up the inside leaving them all to it, finding myself in miles of space as a result.
Bl**dy Hell, thats a massive coincidence! I stayed with my Dad in Over for 9 weeks (June - August) and didn't see a TVR once! And you live in Swavesey! I wasn't looking hard enough! 
I drove through Swavesey everyday!! Talk about driving with your eyes shut!!
The one thing that got me the A14 was the stupid little turn offs for the smaller villages! And that CLOSED layby just before the M11! The DETR are just thick!
And talking about Metrocity drivers, I posted last week on the Biddies in Metros Thread, that happened leaving the roundabout at the New services heading towards Boxworth!! Stupid F*cking Woman!!
Cheers
Stuart
I drove through Swavesey everyday!! Talk about driving with your eyes shut!! The one thing that got me the A14 was the stupid little turn offs for the smaller villages! And that CLOSED layby just before the M11! The DETR are just thick!
And talking about Metrocity drivers, I posted last week on the Biddies in Metros Thread, that happened leaving the roundabout at the New services heading towards Boxworth!! Stupid F*cking Woman!!
Cheers
Stuart
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A14, 27th Dec. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
Thankyou, feel much better for that.
sure it wasn't the 26th? Saw two Chims going down the M11 towards London
Coming back from York. Roads were quiet. Still aaaaaaarghhhh. Quiet roads means that you still have overyone in the right-hand lane doing 69, and the gaps between cars on the left-hand lane are now 1000 yds. instead of 500
Rgds, WalterU
There's at least one Griff in Over, but for much of June-August, mine was residing chez Brundle in the futile hope of someone buying it. Some hope. And a silly thing to do... I got it back and am enjoying it hugely!
A14 layby... it's an old one that they up-specced. I think they then realised how stupid it was to have lorries and cars pulling out of the layby at 5mph then trying to get in the middle lane to go down the M11 not the A14 east past Cambridge or the road into Cambridge. That at the same time as the hilarity of three lanes of A14 trying to sort themselves out to do the same thing.
The Boxworth roundabout makes me laugh... from a distance. At each entry to the roundabout there's a sign telling you which way to go... it's just that people never seem to read it, and hence wobble around in the middle lane (of two) with no indicators until they fly off at some random exit. The lorry reversing back into the roundabout having taken a wrong exit was really funny too. Well, it was a bit later once I'd calmed down, anyway.
A14 layby... it's an old one that they up-specced. I think they then realised how stupid it was to have lorries and cars pulling out of the layby at 5mph then trying to get in the middle lane to go down the M11 not the A14 east past Cambridge or the road into Cambridge. That at the same time as the hilarity of three lanes of A14 trying to sort themselves out to do the same thing.
The Boxworth roundabout makes me laugh... from a distance. At each entry to the roundabout there's a sign telling you which way to go... it's just that people never seem to read it, and hence wobble around in the middle lane (of two) with no indicators until they fly off at some random exit. The lorry reversing back into the roundabout having taken a wrong exit was really funny too. Well, it was a bit later once I'd calmed down, anyway.
Eyes shut or what!!! Damn!
Any idea where abouts in Over? I remember hearing a Griff-like noise! Loud, Rumbly, Gorgeous, but of course, everyone passed it off as a bike! These people know nothing!
The road from boxworth towards the Roundabout is good fun, the series of bends! Tyre squeal and powerslides! WOOHOO!
Cheers
Stuart
Any idea where abouts in Over? I remember hearing a Griff-like noise! Loud, Rumbly, Gorgeous, but of course, everyone passed it off as a bike! These people know nothing!
The road from boxworth towards the Roundabout is good fun, the series of bends! Tyre squeal and powerslides! WOOHOO!
Cheers
Stuart
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Oh, just the normal widely spaced slow traffic in the inside, along with tightly packed bunches of cars in the outside lane. Headed up, of course, by a 65mph metrocity that won't move left for fear of having to change lanes 10 minutes later to overtake another pesky lorry. Of course, there's miles of empty road in front of said metro.
Made a million times worse by Christmas holiday drivers.
It's definately a state of mind, my better half always comments on
" why do you always have to pull in and out all of the time"
Plod are a lot less likely to pull you if you keep to the left where possible...not failed me in 20 years.. oh yeah and good observation helps
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With regards to lane 'discipline' i like driving behind the middle lane hogger (you know the ones I mean
I try to keep a good lookout for hazards when I'm driving, sadly these days I seem to spend more time looking for police cars and speed traps than I do looking for potential accidents, like most people I guess. Anyway, from time to time police cars do come tanking past with the sirens and lights on, I would normally expect to see them a mile off and be very surprised if they got within a couple hundred yards before I noticed them. But I have noticed that more often than not, they get held up every hundred yards or so by some fast laner who isn't looking in his mirrors. It is amusing to see how long it takes some of them to notice this big white car right behind them with flashing lights and sirens, and see how far they swerve when they finally spot it. Less amusing when you think what this says about their general level of alertness.
Peter Humphries (and a green V8S)
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I try to keep a good lookout for hazards when I'm driving, sadly these days I seem to spend more time looking for police cars and speed traps than I do looking for potential accidents, like most people I guess.
That is SO true. In town the other day, I was concentrating so hard on getting over these goddamn speed bumps without damaging the car, I nearly didn't see the pedestrian... You know the bumps I mean? - the square ones that you need to line up perfectly on, or you get jolted even at 20mph???
Or "camera spotting", and at more risk of running up the back of the car in front. Sheesh. That would be a good insurance claim!
Carl
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