martine wrote: So back home I used the Highways Agency website to make a complaint.
Any thoughts?
Horse wrote:
M-ways have the small marker posts every 100m and driver info signs every .5km, which identify the motorway, direction, and location, eg: M4 A 100/0 - give that information.
Rick101 wrote:Horse wrote:
M-ways have the small marker posts every 100m and driver info signs every .5km, which identify the motorway, direction, and location, eg: M4 A 100/0 - give that information.
With regard to this. How is the A and B direction identified? I know B will always be decreasing mileage, but does is there any stiplulation which end starts at 0 miles?
I know on the railway you have Up and Down directions. Up direction is always towards London.
Bit difficult working out which is which when you are in London though!
Slink_Pink wrote:It is somewhat worrying that it basically falls down to some person paying attention to one of many video feeds to detect this.
Slink_Pink wrote: Surely much better to have an automated system alerting operators with too many false positives than have someone attempting wheel change in a live lane. . . . that came with software capable of determining whether something moved into a part of it's view (which you could draw a little box around)
Slink_Pink wrote:Rick101 wrote:Horse wrote:
M-ways have the small marker posts every 100m and driver info signs every .5km, which identify the motorway, direction, and location, eg: M4 A 100/0 - give that information.
With regard to this. How is the A and B direction identified? I know B will always be decreasing mileage, but does is there any stiplulation which end starts at 0 miles?
I know on the railway you have Up and Down directions. Up direction is always towards London.
Bit difficult working out which is which when you are in London though!
My understanding (may be wrong) is that the A is leading away from the origin (i.e. J1 end) of the m'way - similarly to house numbers increasing as you move further out of a town/city/village centre, in theory at least!
Horse wrote:Slink_Pink wrote:It is somewhat worrying that it basically falls down to some person paying attention to one of many video feeds to detect this.
Nope, the worrying bit is that the driver decides not to call it in, whether by walking to a fixed phone or using a mobile. Brave? You decide..
Horse wrote:Slink_Pink wrote: Surely much better to have an automated system alerting operators with too many false positives than have someone attempting wheel change in a live lane. . . . that came with software capable of determining whether something moved into a part of it's view (which you could draw a little box around)
There are plenty of options, I'm fairly sure they will have looked at them.
Horse wrote:martine wrote: So back home I used the Highways Agency website to make a complaint.
Any thoughts?
Yes, were you complaining that the driver was a f@ckwit for not calling for help?
Otherwise it's hardly the HA's fault!
martine wrote:Horse wrote:martine wrote: So back home I used the Highways Agency website to make a complaint.
Any thoughts?
Yes, were you complaining that the driver was a f@ckwit for not calling for help?
Otherwise it's hardly the HA's fault!
Yes I think it's very much the HA's fault. The HA designed hard-shoulder/all-lane running. The HA are meant to monitor it for the safety of all concerned. c. 20 mins with a broken down vehicle in a live running lane can't be right.
Horse wrote:The majority of roads in the UK don't have hard shoulders, or emergency phones! If the driver chose not to call the control room but, instead to crack on with changing a tyre, that's hardly their fault.
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