Traffic Lights on the Motorway?

[katex]

[QUOTE=wozaup it is common knowledge that a slip road is to get upto speed with the motorway to stop accidents not cause them, i wonder how many people are going to get shunted from behind before they actually decide to get rid of the things.

[/QUOTE]

Well, they are usually put on when the motorway traffic is very heavy and moving slowly so picking up high speed on the slip road doesn't apply anyway, and in my opinion elviates any shunting.

Recommended speed to enter a motorway, under normal conditions, is 45 m.p.h.

[wozaup]

ah see not just a cute name but an intellegent brain aswell

[katex]

Originally Posted by wozaup

ah see not just a cute name but an intellegent brain aswell

Eh, waz he talking to me ? ... do ya' think I've scored or is he being sarcastic ?.

[wozaup]

Just being polite afterall i am new here I have to set a good example!

[katex]

Originally Posted by wozaup

Just being polite afterall i am new here I have to set a good example!

Well, you on the right road honey.

Oh shucks, just looked at his profile ... he's married :e9:

Good to see your imput here anyway.

[wozaup]

Thank you for your kind words.

Yes I am married 6yrs in June whooooo

[Neil]

Originally Posted by katex

Recommended speed to enter a motorway, under normal conditions, is 45 m.p.h.

I can't agree with that Kate. I don't see how you can recommend a speed, it depends on the conditions on the motorway as you enter it. What are "normal conditions"? You should be entering lane 1 at the same speed as traffic in that lane. If you enter at a slower speed you will cause the vehicles in lane one to have to move to lane 2 at every junction. I know this is not always possible for all vehicles.

Check out the Highway Code here

Joining the motorway 233: When you join the motorway you will normally approach it from a road on the left (a slip road) or from an adjoining motorway. You should

• give priority to traffic already on the motorway
• check the traffic on the motorway and adjust your speed to fit safely into the traffic flow in the left-hand lane
• not cross solid white lines that separate lanes
• stay on the slip road if it continues as an extra lane on the motorway
• remain in the left-hand lane long enough to adjust to the speed of traffic before considering overtaking.

[katex]

Originally Posted by Neil

I can't agree with that Kate. I don't see how you can recommend a speed, it depends on the conditions on the motorway as you enter it. What are "normal conditions"? You should be entering lane 1 at the same speed as traffic in that lane. If you enter at a slower speed you will cause the vehicles in lane one to have to move to lane 2 at every junction. I know this is not always possible for all vehicles.

Check out the Highway Code here
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Course you are quite correct Neil, just when I have been pulled over onto the
hard shoulder by our traffice police, when they have decided they can let me go they always advise me to proceed slowly on the hard shoulder until I reach a speed of 45 m.p.h. .. conditions usually being normal ....

[Neil]

Originally Posted by katex

..when I have been pulled over onto the
hard shoulder by our traffice police, when they have decided they can let me go they always advise me to proceed slowly on the hard shoulder until I reach a speed of 45 m.p.h. .. conditions usually being normal ....

That is a little different than joining the normal way from the slip road. Maybe if you hadn't been doing 70mph in the right hand lane with the "I am not breaking the speed limit so I am not moving" attitude then, you would not have been pulled over .

Only joking kate, why did they pull you? It is usually serious for them to pull someone over on the motorway because of the dangers involved. When i was younger I was stopped many times, never on a motorway though. Well almost on a motorway but not quite

[Madhatter]

best way to avoid gettin caught is to stay under the speed limit.

Busman I see your point but if the motorway is slow, the traffic will be backing up anyway. The lights go green when the slip is full of waiting cars. I don't live in birmingham itself but from what I remember the slips there aren't any longer, and tey only get the usuall amount of mayhem.

[katex]

[QUOTE=Neil]Only joking kate, why did they pull you?/QUOTE]

Not tellin' ya' Neill, however, some of us women will do anything to be chastised by a man in uniform

Suffice to say, only got 3 points on me licence at present after a clean licence of 42 years .. that bloody camera in Whalley Road at Great Harwood .. 36 mph. Learnt the art of eyelash flickering and grovelling; does work for us gals.

[SPUGGIE J]

[quote=katex]

Originally Posted by Neil

Only joking kate, why did they pull you?/QUOTE]

Not tellin' ya' Neill, however, some of us women will do anything to be chastised by a man in uniform

Suffice to say, only got 3 points on me licence at present after a clean licence of 42 years .. that bloody camera in Whalley Road at Great Harwood .. 36 mph. Learnt the art of eyelash flickering and grovelling; does work for us gals.

Like you honesty and stylish attempts.

[Madhatter]

Not on me it doesn't kate. I'm not falling for any more eyelash flickering or grovelling.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by katex

Not tellin' ya' Neil,

So it must have been something really stupid or embarrassing

[katex]

Originally Posted by Neil

So it must have been something really stupid or embarrassing

Well, suppose so, last time was overtaking them at 85 .. was cheeky I suppose .. they thought I must av bin drunk to do such an horrendous thing, but, no way, near Christmas and been on the road since dawn, set off from London at 5.30 p.m. and just wanted to get home, that's all Didn't even take me name, just breathalysed me. See .. you made me tell now, probably get some stick from the 70 mph club.