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Horse wrote:

fungus wrote: Enough teenagers don't look with the roads as they are at present.

Whether or not they look is one thing. But if anyone relies on a child looking and then making the correct decision then that might be a flawed mistake.

Well yes, then you get situations such as where we used to live in Yate where (at a local consulation about removing the speed humps along a road around the edge of a major housing estate) parents reported that their kids enjoyed using the humps as skateboard/bike ramps

jont wrote:

Horse wrote:

fungus wrote: Enough teenagers don't look with the roads as they are at present.

Whether or not they look is one thing. But if anyone relies on a child looking and then making the correct decision then that might be a flawed mistake.

Well yes, then you get situations such as where we used to live in Yate where (at a local consulation about removing the speed humps along a road around the edge of a major housing estate) parents reported that their kids enjoyed using the humps as skateboard/bike ramps

But you could still see the limit point in the distance, yes? Whoops, wrong thread

Horse wrote:
But you could still see the limit point in the distance, yes? Whoops, wrong thread

There's probably some golden rule about speed humps, but I've lost the will to live ...

I would look to overtake, but time my move to avoid the possibility of a happening.

martine wrote:It's probably been designed by a BRAKE supporter...they are against overtaking on rural roads and want legislation for "...a ban on overtaking free-moving traffic, except on multi-lane roads."

After spending some time last night stuck behind 5 cars following a tractor (with no return gaps and never /quite/ enough view to do the lot in one go, but more than enough for several cars to have gone), I think I'm of the opinion that drivers who /can't/ overtake on rural roads should be the ones we're trying to stop driving.

jont wrote:

martine wrote:It's probably been designed by a BRAKE supporter...they are against overtaking on rural roads and want legislation for "...a ban on overtaking free-moving traffic, except on multi-lane roads."

After spending some time last night stuck behind 5 cars following a tractor (with no return gaps and never /quite/ enough view to do the lot in one go, but more than enough for several cars to have gone), I think I'm of the opinion that drivers who /can't/ overtake on rural roads should be the ones we're trying to stop driving.

This is a situation I encounter quite frequently, especially at this time of year when there are lots of agricultural vehicles on the roads. I wouldn't go far as to want people to stop driving, but I would like something done about the problem.

A couple of days ago I had a situation very similar to the one you describe: a slow moving tractor with a large trailer, then about five or six cars, then me. There was a good overtaking opportunity, but we were stuck with this situation for about a mile, because nobody would make a move.

After the tractor turned off into a farm entrance, the leading cars were quickly up to 60 mph, so they weren't slow drivers; it was simply that they had no ability or inclination to perform a perfectly easy overtake.

Overtaking on a three lane road can be made easy and safe by allowing it for traffic in only one direction at a time. It can be made even safer by augmenting the line system which would signal the direction in which overtaking is allowed with a fixed barrier. I have seen this is Sweden. Personally I enjoy the challenge of judging overtaking opportunities, so this system made driving less interesting for me, and of course 50% of the time you had to wait for your next overtake, but I thought the system worked well to allow traffic to travel safely at different speeds.

Here's the system used a lot in France: offset lanes used extensively to allow overtaking on hills. Essential when there are a lot of agricultural vehicles about ....

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@49.08792 ... !2e0?hl=en