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Originally posted by Ramrod
Educate people on proper motorway driving so that they don't hog the middle lane and thereby cut a 3 lane road down to 2 lane road- that would effectively add another lane to all our motorways-without widening them!
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My strategy for dealing with the M1 when it's heavy going...
Get in Lane 1 (it's
not the slow lane!!), go at 60-65mph and stay there. You can usually undertake a couple of dozen lane-hogging idiots in lanes 2 and 3 before coming up behind a lorry, at which point you slip into lane 2 and then straight back to lane 1.
As long as you're going under 70, and the traffic is very heavy, by my reading of the Highway Code you are 'moving in queues' and therefore not breaking any rules by passing cars on the inside.
Works for me anyway!
To answer someone else's suggestion earlier, I think rotten lane discipline is one of the biggest arguments in favour of re-testing people, or at least introducing a second-stage test, involving m-way driving, before allowing people to drive on the m-ways.