The problem is when there is a long queue of traffic in lanes 1 and 2, and the person at the front of lane 3 refuses to push past 70 on their speedo, they slowly crawl by the traffic in the middle lane, it causes a hold up in traffic.
So 90 isn't fast? data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Well I find I am often the "slow moving vehicle" at that speed...
I'm not sure whether to take that seriously or not?
well you would have to admit, or perhaps it's just the motorways I use or the times I use them (never in the rush hour), that 90 is nothing unusual, and if you do cruise along at 90 there will still be plenty of cars overtaking you.
Ain't that the truth.
Christ, I was on the midlands expressway toll road a while back, it seemed to me people thought it was an autobahn.data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
I found myself doing speeds I wouldn't dream of doing on a normal m-way.
But the toll road was quiet and I was still far from the fastest thing on it.
Funny enough I was thinking exactly the same a couple of weeks back when I was on it. Early evening, very little traffic, most of it seemingly doing 100mph!
Maybe my post wasn't clear. When the traffic is stationary, I do filter and make progress.
However, when the traffic is moving, I do sometimes sit in lane and ride with the traffic. I don't always feel the need to be zipping down the white line.
Other times I'm filtering between traffic at speeds that really don't leave a lot of room for error.
I don't mind admitting, I was doing a good bit more than that in parts and I was still being overtaken.data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
It helped me disguise the speed from the wife though.data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
She only notices when I'm the one doing the overtaking.data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
im with loz on this one, on m-ways and even some dual carrigeways 100 is considered slow!
its difficult to enforce a low speed limit, if you had signs up saying minimum speed 30, what do you do when its snowing or raining?
im surprised no one knows what these signs mean data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 maybe we should have more of them?
Oh yeah I completely agree with you, I tend to go about 80-85 on motorways, it was just the apparent contradiction that got me baffled, because at the end of the day anything over 70 can get a speeding ticket, thus being 'fast' data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7