Most recently answered motorways questions
Question: What's the UK's least-used stretch of road? Answer: The inside lane of any of its motorways. Why am I paying for the widening of many of our motorways, and suffering the attendant delays and...
It would appear that I am not alone in my anxiety and apprehension when joining and being joined by sliproad traffic on UK motorways. The Highway Code manual is by no means specific or clear cut in this...
They tried lights on the slip roads at J11 (eastbound) and J7 (westbound) on the M27 a year or so ago and they rapidly caused big tailbacks at peak times. The upshot was/is that they were removed after...
Want to save millions of tons of CO2 per year? Want to improve a car's mpg? Want to save the NHS £M's per year in medication prescriptions for high blood pressure? EASY. Just turn off all traffic lights...
I always understood that if it was necessary to stop on the hard shoulder that it was advisable to point the steering towards the kerb. This would help to prevent that car being pushed into the moving...
Many thanks your very swift reassurances as to the legality of nearside overtaking, albeit in very specific circumstances. You have clarified the situation to my enormous relief though I have to admit,...
Is there some reason apart from simple stupidity that causes a significant minority of British motorists to hog the middle and outer lanes of the three lanes generally available on, for example the M6?...
After sitting in yet another queue on the M25 trying to join the M3 southbound last night I remembered you mentioning that the new layout was being trialled to improve traffic congestion. I think that...
My grand-daughter was driving her 2001 VW Polo in the outside lane of the M25 last week when her clutch system failed. Fortunately, with the aid of flashers, good driving, courtesy from other drivers,...
My hair has gone silver, and my driving these days is mainly short journeys on local roads. However, Christmas saw me undertake several long journeys on the motorway network and there was one phenomenon...
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