I have jsut spent another half hour on the A2 coming home from uni sighing with exasperation at the sheer amount of people who insist on sitting in the middle lane when the slow lane is completely empty, or where is plenty of room for them to move over. Now, I know middle lane morons are a pet hatred of the motoring community, but it seems that most of the people who just switch off and cruise along in the middle lane aren't doing it out of any conscious effort, but because they are simply ignorant of how irritating it can be, and the potential congestion they are causing.
Unfortunately, because it doesn't seem to fall under any sort of law breaking, it's not like keeping left seems to get enforced much. Now I have also noticed that lately on the motorways in my area, they have been using the overhead warning gantries a lot more. Whereas they usually are only used in emergencies, they now use them to display helpful information, like the time and distance to junctions or towns ahead.
So this got me thinking as I spent another frustraing journey having to move across three lanes of traffic to overtake one car....should the government perhaps institute some sort of basic "Keep left" campaign? Perhaps TV adverts in the same vain as "speed kills" adverts, which highlight the problems caused by hogging the middle lane, and perhaps use the overhead gantires to show "Keep left unless overtaking" or something? Perhaps I'm just an optimist, but I honestly think it might help people think twice about getting into the middle lane, sticking the cruise control onto 65 and thereby rendering the inside lane useless to all except those who finally snap and jsut undertake.
Thoughts?
Unfortunately, because it doesn't seem to fall under any sort of law breaking, it's not like keeping left seems to get enforced much. Now I have also noticed that lately on the motorways in my area, they have been using the overhead warning gantries a lot more. Whereas they usually are only used in emergencies, they now use them to display helpful information, like the time and distance to junctions or towns ahead.
So this got me thinking as I spent another frustraing journey having to move across three lanes of traffic to overtake one car....should the government perhaps institute some sort of basic "Keep left" campaign? Perhaps TV adverts in the same vain as "speed kills" adverts, which highlight the problems caused by hogging the middle lane, and perhaps use the overhead gantires to show "Keep left unless overtaking" or something? Perhaps I'm just an optimist, but I honestly think it might help people think twice about getting into the middle lane, sticking the cruise control onto 65 and thereby rendering the inside lane useless to all except those who finally snap and jsut undertake.
Thoughts?