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From: ChelseaTractorMan on 26 Apr 2010 07:27
A2 (eastbound) to "M25" (or rather the A282 as the M25 becomes a few
yards before they squeezed in a horrible little slip for traffic
coming from the A2). You are coming up from a different level so its
not great for see or be seen, the cars are mostly doing 80 as "its the
M25 really, isn't it?" and the lorries are doing 56 so you need to be
synchronised with that, then the car joining behind you decides 10
foot is a good gap to follow at and the car in front loses its nerve
and slows right down rather than filter in and ends up half on the few
yards of hard shoulder before the immediately following A2 (westbound)
joins and you just know that bloke on your back bumper is looking in
his mirror and not at you ahead.

Right, I've had my moan, have a nice day! :-)
--
Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: Nkosi (ama-ecosse) on 26 Apr 2010 08:00
On 26 Apr, 12:27, ChelseaTractorMan <mr.c.trac...(a)hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:
> A2 (eastbound) to "M25" (or rather the A282 as the M25 becomes a few
> yards before they squeezed in a horrible little slip for traffic
> coming from the A2). You are coming up from a different level so its
> not great for see or be seen, the cars are mostly doing 80 as "its the
> M25 really, isn't it?" and the lorries are doing 56 so you need to be
> synchronised with that, then the car joining behind you decides 10
> foot is a good gap to follow at and the car in front loses its nerve
> and slows right down rather than filter in and ends up half on the few
> yards of hard shoulder before the immediately following A2 (westbound)
> joins and you just know that bloke on your back bumper is looking in
> his mirror and not at you ahead.
>
> Right, I've had my moan, have a nice day! :-)
> --
> Mike. .. .
> Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.

Seems like normal driving practice, This morning while joining the M9
junction 5 eastbound, (2 lane slip and long enough that you can in
theory accelerate to 90mph before actually joining the motorway),
Whitevan in nearside lane followed by a red volvo S4, volvo moves out
to overtake the van but doesn't. instead sticks to 45mph, van
accelerates to around 60mph, volvo does not mover back to nearside
lane but just ambles along. so undertake volvo accelerate to 70 mph,
overtake van which is still in nearside lane, before motorway and
join motoraway doing same speed as traffic already on motorway. It
isn't rocket science.

Nksoi
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 26 Apr 2010 09:55
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:00:43 -0700 (PDT), "Nkosi (ama-ecosse)"
<minankosi(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

>Seems like normal driving practice,

Well, at least it doesn't go like that *every* day!
--
Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: Graham Harrison on 26 Apr 2010 12:32

"ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> A2 (eastbound) to "M25" (or rather the A282 as the M25 becomes a few
> yards before they squeezed in a horrible little slip for traffic
> coming from the A2). You are coming up from a different level so its
> not great for see or be seen, the cars are mostly doing 80 as "its the
> M25 really, isn't it?" and the lorries are doing 56 so you need to be
> synchronised with that, then the car joining behind you decides 10
> foot is a good gap to follow at and the car in front loses its nerve
> and slows right down rather than filter in and ends up half on the few
> yards of hard shoulder before the immediately following A2 (westbound)
> joins and you just know that bloke on your back bumper is looking in
> his mirror and not at you ahead.
>
> Right, I've had my moan, have a nice day! :-)
> --
> Mike. .. .
> Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.

A34 to A303. It doesn't matter which direction you join the A303 (except
coming from the South on the A34 to go West on the 303) you come up a curve
where the maximum speed you can achieve is nothing like what the traffic on
the 303 is doing and the view of traffic on the 303 is limited and then find
there's no acceleration lane; you're just dumped on to the 303.

From: Silk on 26 Apr 2010 14:08
On 26/04/2010 12:27, ChelseaTractorMan wrote:
> A2 (eastbound) to "M25" (or rather the A282 as the M25 becomes a few
> yards before they squeezed in a horrible little slip for traffic
> coming from the A2). You are coming up from a different level so its
> not great for see or be seen, the cars are mostly doing 80 as "its the
> M25 really, isn't it?" and the lorries are doing 56 so you need to be
> synchronised with that, then the car joining behind you decides 10
> foot is a good gap to follow at and the car in front loses its nerve
> and slows right down rather than filter in and ends up half on the few
> yards of hard shoulder before the immediately following A2 (westbound)
> joins and you just know that bloke on your back bumper is looking in
> his mirror and not at you ahead.
>
> Right, I've had my moan, have a nice day! :-)

So, you can't drive. Why bother us with it? ;-)

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