true blue wrote:So, advanced drivers, what would you do?
true blue wrote:(apologies - not sure how best to insert links, and certainly can't cope with pictures!)
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:If you want really scary, try the A5 towards North Wales. Overtaking down the middle is the accepted custom and practice along here and it's a VERY fast and busy road (Here is an example). You either have to go with the flow and join the overtakers, or sit tight and be overtaken. Opportunities for "normal" overtakes are few and far between.
true blue wrote:From the road surface it's evident that it used to be a 3-lane single carriageway, though it's not clear whether the centre lane was for anyone or whether it alternated between sides. Now, however, it's simple a two lane carriageway, with extremely wide lanes. 3 cars can fit alongside comfortably, though I'd not like to try 4 (especially if one is a lorry).
Astraist wrote:All single-carriageways with two lanes allow three cars to pass side by side, in the advent of leaving drivers some way out when an unsafe overtake happens before them. In fact, a single carriageway should be just as wide as four cars side by side!
Gareth wrote:In the UK the regulations (pdf) say that single carriageways less than 5.5m wide should not have a centre line (paragraph 4.6).
michael769 wrote:Gareth wrote:In the UK the regulations (pdf) say that single carriageways less than 5.5m wide should not have a centre line (paragraph 4.6).
TSM is guidance not law. No such regulation exists.
Gareth wrote:michael769 wrote:Gareth wrote:In the UK the regulations (pdf) say that single carriageways less than 5.5m wide should not have a centre line (paragraph 4.6).
TSM is guidance not law. No such regulation exists.
Apologies for the inaccuracy - I was trying to put a number on the minimum width of a 'normal' UK single carriageway which has a centre line and lanes of opposing traffic, for the benefit of our friend from Israel (who still has an unread PM from two weeks ago).
If cars are approximately 2m wide, and a single carriageway is, in general, at least 5.5m wide, there is only room for one car in each direction plus a margin for safe passage.
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