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From: boltar2003 on 2 Aug 2010 07:34
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:05:30 +0800
The Peeler <peelingthe(a)invalid.admin> wrote:
>People who pass on the inside aren't following the highway code
>either.

Mores the pity. Not that it stops me doing it though.

B2003

From: The Peeler on 2 Aug 2010 07:55
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:34:07 +0000 (UTC), boltar2003(a)boltar.world
wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:05:30 +0800
>The Peeler <peelingthe(a)invalid.admin> wrote:
>>People who pass on the inside aren't following the highway code
>>either.
>
>Mores the pity. Not that it stops me doing it though.

I don't really see a problem with it either, provided you don't exceed
the speed target by doing so.
From: GT on 2 Aug 2010 08:17
"The Peeler" <peelingthe(a)invalid.admin> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:34:07 +0000 (UTC), boltar2003(a)boltar.world
> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:05:30 +0800
>>The Peeler <peelingthe(a)invalid.admin> wrote:
>>>People who pass on the inside aren't following the highway code
>>>either.
>>
>>Mores the pity. Not that it stops me doing it though.
>
> I don't really see a problem with it either, provided you don't exceed
> the speed target by doing so.

'speed target' = ;-)


From: GT on 2 Aug 2010 09:22
"Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 13:13:19 +0100, GT wrote:
>
>> You should only be in L2 if you are overtaking - how is there space for
>> anyone to undertake you? Just because everyone else is on L2, doesn't
>> mean
>> you have to join them.
>
> unless you are going to undertake, moving into L1 does not work. You
> cruise
> up to back of queue in L1, you wait. More cars join queue in L2 and you
> have to drop back to move to L2 when you eventually need to.
> Its the same with the L3 queues. If you see undertaking and/or "barging
> in"
> (there will *not* be safe gaps) as unsafe, the only logical thing is join
> the queue.

This is just the 'everyone else is doing it so I have to as well' problem. I
don't see a way round it, other than to join the line of cars in the
overtaking lane who aren't overtaking anything.


From: GT on 2 Aug 2010 09:38
"Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:22:48 +0100, GT wrote:
>
>> This is just the 'everyone else is doing it so I have to as well'
>> problem.
>
> pretty much.

Actually, a correction: its the 'everyone else is doing *wrongly* it so I
have to do it *wrongly* as well, or I end up stranded in the *correct* lane
with nowhere to go' problem!!


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