M1
Posted: Mon 25 June, 2012 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Commuting, Domestic, Driving, People, Stupidity, Work-related |3 Comments »Since moving, pretty much my entire commute now consists of the M1. It’s only two junctions-worth, thankfully, but all the same, it’s the M1.
The worst bit of this – for the next year, anyway – is that those two junctions I travel are in the process of having lots of work done on them, which leads to an ‘average speed limit’ of 50mph along the entire stretch.
Sadly, this “average 50mph” seems to remove driving skills in the massive majority of drivers. It means they sit in their lane, regardless of anything else going on around them. I’ve lost count of the number of people I’ve seen sat in the outside lane, with two empty lanes beside them.
I don’t know what causes it. It just seems like their brains lock down into “50mph, and don’t change anything”.
Needless to say, it’s infuriating.
Yeah, but at least you can now avoid the M11 where the eastern european lorries delight in pulling into the second lane (of 2 lanes) to overtake another lorry, just before an upward incline. 40mph for several miles everyone? Selfish bastards.
This is very true – I don’t miss that aspect at all.
Personally I’ve always thought that any government who put in a policy of “HGVs not allowed in the outer-lane of any multi-carriageway road” would get a lot of support. It’d mean trucks could overtake fine on three-lane sections without destroying the traffic flow, but on two-lane sections, they’re confined to inside lane.
But hey, what would I know?
Hear hear, you two.