by Matt62 » Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:46 pm
My first post on this forum and something that as a supposedly 'Advanced' (ROSPA Gold for a good few years) driver, I am completely baffled and confused by. In recent months it seems to have become customary at one of the junctions on my daily commute (M11/A428 near Cambridge) for queues to form on the Hard Shoulder. In my view this is not only illegal, but also extremely hazardous. Before the junction there are a couple of message board signs that often say 'Queue On Slip Road'. I think these are to warn of slowing traffic, but are being wrongly interpreted as an instruction to use the Hard Shoulder. For obvious reasons, approaching the junction correctly in the left hand lane is now dangerous (those queuing on the hard shoulder do not believe that they should give way to those on the carriageway!), whereas joining the hard shoulder queue is illegal and also quite hazardous (as it forms quite unpredictably and at relatively high speeds). Have other forum members encountered similar situations and if so, what did you do? I am thinking of finding a new route to work......
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Matt62 on Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:19 pm, edited 2 times in total.