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From: Chris Bartram on 16 Feb 2010 12:02 On 16/02/2010 14:41, Ret. wrote: > Seems to me that an awful lot of motorists drive down the slip road at > nowhere near the speed of the nearside lane motorway traffic and can > then not merge because they are going too slow! > > Kev Indeed. I see this almost every day. Generally, I overtake if there's room- a lot of people seem determined to join the m/way at 45mph.
From: Tim on 16 Feb 2010 09:20 Huge wrote: > On 2010-02-16, Tim <timdownie2003(a)obvious.yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> You've forgotten "Incorrect method number 2": Slow down until >> stationary at the end of the sliproad and wait for a large gap in >> the traffic. > > That'll be because it isn't incorrect. If you can't merge you stop at > the Give Way line at the end of the slip road. Yeah but, if you've done that you've basically cocked up and put yourself and other road users in danger. Only time it's happened to me is when the traffic is backed up nose-to-tail. Tim
From: Zimmy on 16 Feb 2010 09:35 "Mr Benn" <nospam(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:hlduvq$nln$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > It's such a simple thing to do. > > Correct Method: > > Match your speed on the slip road approximately to the speed of traffic > travelling in lane 1 and then choose an empty slot to move into. > > Incorrect Method: > > Match your speed on the slip road, drive parallel to a vehicle already in > lane 1 and then try to merge into the side of the vehicle even though > there are gaps in front of and behind the vehicle. > > Why are so many drivers getting this wrong? The broken line separating > the slip road from lane 1 means "give way". > > Note: It's not always possible for traffic already in lane 1 to move over > to lane 2 because of traffic already in lane 2 although as a courtesy they > should do this when safe to aid traffic joining the motorway. In Livingston (a 'new' town), almost every junction is a slip road or roundabout, whether dual carriageway or not. On single carriageway roads, the adopted practice seems to be for the next driver on the busy main road to slam on the brakes and flash the driver on the slip road out, regardless of how many people are behind him/her. Even if you are the only car on the main road and do not flash the local driver on the slip road out, he/she will get quite irate. Don't even try to point out to locals that this effectively moves the give way line to the main road and they are slowing the main flow up and is contrary to the highway code, they won't listen. Z
From: Rob on 16 Feb 2010 09:39 Tim wrote: || Huge wrote: ||| On 2010-02-16, Tim <timdownie2003(a)obvious.yahoo.co.uk> wrote: |||| You've forgotten "Incorrect method number 2": Slow down until |||| stationary at the end of the sliproad and wait for a large gap in |||| the traffic. ||| ||| That'll be because it isn't incorrect. If you can't merge you stop ||| at the Give Way line at the end of the slip road. || || Yeah but, if you've done that you've basically cocked up and put || yourself and other road users in danger. How do you arrive at that conclusion? There are motorway entrances near me where traffic has no choice but to queue all along the so-called slip road. Vehicles enter one at a time from stationary whenever a gap appears. Accelerating to match motorway speed is a nice idealistic theory, the reality is often very different. || Only time it's happened to me is when the traffic is backed up || nose-to-tail. Like most weekday mornings on a very busy motorway then? -- Rob
From: Ret. on 16 Feb 2010 09:41
Mr Benn wrote: > It's such a simple thing to do. > > Correct Method: > > Match your speed on the slip road approximately to the speed of > traffic travelling in lane 1 and then choose an empty slot to move > into. > Incorrect Method: > > Match your speed on the slip road, drive parallel to a vehicle > already in lane 1 and then try to merge into the side of the vehicle > even though there are gaps in front of and behind the vehicle. > > Why are so many drivers getting this wrong? The broken line > separating the slip road from lane 1 means "give way". > > Note: It's not always possible for traffic already in lane 1 to move > over to lane 2 because of traffic already in lane 2 although as a > courtesy they should do this when safe to aid traffic joining the > motorway. Seems to me that an awful lot of motorists drive down the slip road at nowhere near the speed of the nearside lane motorway traffic and can then not merge because they are going too slow! Kev |