speedyguy:
So that’s why so many daft foookers generally making more of a mess with trucks keep running into the back of queues 
Take note of the comment regards “break lights”
Should I say you’re one of those creating an unnecessary hazard by hogging the middle lane when unthinkingly complying with a motorway sign that could very well have been left on for days?
No, of course not.
Me, I prefer to use my own eyes and think for myself rather than blindly comply with a motorway sign. And if that doesn’t bug ya’, how about I’m one of those that sit in the inside lane on the M25, even though I know full well that inside lane will be disappearing up a slip road in four or five miles time.
Here’s a tip, the reason various Governments have widened our motorway system with extra lanes is so extra lanes are available to us, not so some as hole can close them off by hogging the second and third lanes.
Who ever controls these over head gantry signs should be sacked.
I use the M6 every night Mon/Fri and for the last three weeks the message board just before Junction 16 southbound has been stuck on continually saying ‘Queue Caution 50 mph’ with not a vehicle in sight.
Get down to Hilton Park and they tell you with the famous red x that lanes one and two are closed but get down to the front and nothing is happening so everyone has pulled over and caused a one to two mile jam for no reason.
As regards staying in the inside lane well i must say i do only after i get a phone call from a fellow driver at the front of the queue telling me its a waste of time pulling over as all lanes are clear here up front as they have not even begun putting the 800 yard warning marker boards up yet let alone any cones.
This is just two examples of many i come across every night
You wonder why people don’t take much notice of the signs well if they were accurate then they probably would!
Also who the hell is interested in time to such and such a junction 35 minutes? That does not relate to all vehicles! Surely they would be better putting the signs to other uses such as air temperature in winter for example, but then again may be not as they would probably make a hash of that.
paullus:
extrucker:
The signals on M1 J10-6A both directions are being looked into after the issue was raised by ourselves numerous times. The MIDAS settings are wrong causing signs to show speed signals for no reason. Again, we are as much frustrated as you are.
i witnessed an accident caused by those gantrys last year when for no apparent reason, 40 mph with red circle flashed up and a tanker breaked to avoid running the cameras.
a car following the tanker swerved to avoid it and ended up bouncing off the concrete central barrier and finished up on the hard shoulder.
it was totally the car drivers fault and how it didn’t hit anything else was a miracle,but my first thought was, is there a chimp loose in the control room. 
i didn’t stop because there were about 20 other cars already pulled up.
p.s. no problem with the 4x4 guys cause i’ve probably shared a h/s with most of them. 
h/s■■? hope that aint short for a hand shandy 
We are trained to embrace diversity Largebloke
the m42/m5 birmingham is a classic example of ‘signs’ being set at 40 mph with almost nothing on the road my best so far is 5 miles of seeing nothing but sat at 40mph! its a coincidence that they have speed cameras and its a ‘sleepy’ time for drivers wonder how much they make from it in an hour??
As a night worker the motorway gantry signs consistantly prove unreliable and sometimes dangerous, for example I complied with a 30mph restriction on the M25 one night around 1am and was immediately swamped by cars doing 70+ and trucks going flat out, I stuck with it for a couple of miles then decided it was too dangerous, five miles later sign was gone and there never was an obstruction or problem, same time after time after time with random late night / early morning late closures, speed restrictions and red X’s all over the place, I would estimate around 30-40% prove pointless and innacurate. As a result I drive with my eyes and instincts and to the road conditions as I see fit at that moment in time, last thing you need is articulated vehicles speeding up and slowing down and swerving around from lane to lane in a vein attempt to comply with bogus information.
Phantom Mark:
As a night worker the motorway gantry signs consistantly prove unreliable and sometimes dangerous, for example I complied with a 30mph restriction on the M25 one night around 1am and was immediately swamped by cars doing 70+ and trucks going flat out, I stuck with it for a couple of miles then decided it was too dangerous, five miles later sign was gone and there never was an obstruction or problem, same time after time after time with random late night / early morning late closures, speed restrictions and red X’s all over the place, I would estimate around 30-40% prove pointless and innacurate. As a result I drive with my eyes and instincts and to the road conditions as I see fit at that moment in time, last thing you need is articulated vehicles speeding up and slowing down and swerving around from lane to lane in a vein attempt to comply with bogus information.
I’ve posted before I’ve had that on the M6, Downright dangerous at times.
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It would seem on the M1 that they put the warnings up on the wrong side of the motorway, which would seem about right if they use similar software that was available on their webpage a while back, junction 1 was at the top of the page (showing south to north), and obviously bore no correlation to the actual m/way layout.