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Is undertaking allowed down here if you can't be bothered waiting to overtake the slower traffic like everyone else?
What is it with the south?
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Yup 
Because every moron down here dives into the outside lane the moment they see the traffic slowing.
Allowing me to breeze up the inside with the lorries while they are all braking to often and clogging up the whole motorway
Because every moron down here dives into the outside lane the moment they see the traffic slowing.
Allowing me to breeze up the inside with the lorries while they are all braking to often and clogging up the whole motorway
or the instant they see a sign (ignoring the cars overtaking already) saying they need the outside lane for a certain route even though its nearly a mile away (like out my way)
Yes the whole place is full of morons, even at 6 in the morning as i experienced this morning with an mr2 in the 3rd lane of 4, when he did move over he accelerated and I wasnt exactly hanging around tool.
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What I'm on about is people who do it when the motorway is congested, but doing more than 70mph.
No excuse to undertake people who are doing 80mph at all IMO.
No excuse to undertake people who are doing 80mph at all IMO.
Im not proud of it, but I find myself undertaking more and more now, problem is its normally at 70-75mph, why folks sit in the outside lane I really dont know, you tend see a **** at the head of a queue in the outside, either dawdling or over taking at 70.34 mph, i tend to then move into the inside lane, and sit at 70mph which naturally moves me past the people in the outside lane until I get to the offending ****.
The roads are terrible everywhere, the only place i find sensible now is the speed restricted part of the M42, whenever ive been on its flowed quite well.
The roads are terrible everywhere, the only place i find sensible now is the speed restricted part of the M42, whenever ive been on its flowed quite well.
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Ok, here's how it is.
If it's possible to undertake you, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG ****ING LANE
Thats not strictly true - if you are in the outside lane and you come up behind slower moving traffic behind a numpty 5-6 cars ahead you can do nothing really but wait - its possible to undertake you and the rest of the cars but you are not in the wrong lane?
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Individually none of the cars are in the wrong lane, but collectively, they all are.
They're achieving nothing, they may as well be achieving nothing in the inside lane.
They're achieving nothing, they may as well be achieving nothing in the inside lane.
Do you mean formation flying? i.e. everyone sits in the inside lane waiting for the guy in the outside to get past the guy in the middle lane? What will you do when you come across this? Get behind the outside lane guy. Everybody waiting in the middle/inside wouldn't work very well in medium-heavy traffic as they'd never get let out. Not down these parts anyway.
I tried not undertaking for the first few weeks, now I do it, but gradually as whoever said above, i'll plonk at 70 and try not to mouth nice words at people I drift past.
EDIT: Not trying to be insulting but it's late and the keyboard is hard to reach for a more lengthy reply
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Do you mean formation flying? i.e. everyone sits in the inside lane waiting for the guy in the outside to get past the guy in the middle lane? What will you do when you come across this? Get behind the outside lane guy. Everybody waiting in the middle/inside wouldn't work very well in medium-heavy traffic as they'd never get let out. Not down these parts anyway.
I tried not undertaking for the first few weeks, now I do it, but gradually as whoever said above, i'll plonk at 70 and try not to mouth nice words at people I drift past.
EDIT: Not trying to be insulting but it's late and the keyboard is hard to reach for a more lengthy reply
Basically the way I see it, if there's some numpty in the outside lane when he shouldn't be, he'll stay there until someone either intimidates him into moving over, or undertakes him so he actually has a chance at realising he's in the wrong lane
Might as well be me
I honestly don't remember the last time I made a journey to work in the morning without getting at least a 5-undertake combo, ie five cars in a row in the outside lane sat dead on 70 while I quite happily trundle past in the inside lane at 80ish. (Which, before anyone moans, is completely legal)
If you're sat there making no progress at all, I don't see any reason to be there at all, you may as well make no progress out of everyone's way.
You may say but if you all sat there making no progress, no one would be in the outside lane... and that's the point! It's for overtaking! Not for sitting in for your whole journey!
If you have five hundred cars all going the same speed, the outside lane should be empty. It's for overtaking. People don't get that
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I get what you're saying I believe. I sometimes go for the intimidation but I'm sure the mirrors on cars down here only work one way! :/
Anyway, world's full of idiots. Thing is I now get annoyed at the tarts who return to the inside just as i want to undertake! Trust them to remember how to drive when I want to exploit the opposite
