It’s about time common sense was reinstated and they abandoned this stupid and utter pointless and ■■■■ right dangerous narrowing of lanes through roadworks.
Every day through works there is a accident somewhere causing huge delays.
Incase anyone wasn’t aware, they narrow the lanes as a way of traffic calming not because workers need the space.
Surely the average speed cameras are enough !?!?!?
Where the accidents are there have always been accidents there even without the roadworks.
While I agree that some sections with narrow lanes seem incredibly tight, especially if it’s a motorway down to 2 lanes and you get a car stuck next you on the right and a bit concrete wall a few inches away on the left.
Wasn’t there some news article not long ago saying they’re doing away with the 50mph limit and upping it to 60mph in roadworks to keep traffic flowing? Be good if they do as it’ll stop the endless queues of people stuck behind someone doing 45mph at the front of the queue and someone doing the same next to them not attempting to overtake.
Also, aren’t the government stopping the seemingly endless roadworks sections and limiting them to a max of 2 or 3 miles? Be nice if that happens, was a period last year when it seemed like more of the M1 was under construction than was actually usable!
Simply take up two lanes. Safety first!
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Local roadworks at the end of the two lane Knowsley Expressway has outer lane width restriction of 2.5m, but also has signs saying use both lanes to turn right at the roundabout. Does not stop trucks flying down the outer lane, an inch from the mirrors of trucks observing the signs on the inside lane. What is going on?
The other night M5 north by J5 ish a mcburneys truck went in lane 3 to over take a truck and a car he must of had a couple of inches either side.
Things will improve drastically when knobs stop texting at the wheel.
Narrow lanes are no problem to a competent driver.
They never bothered me, I just got on with it.
Funnily enough though, I was always just in front of the idiots who cant stay in their own lane. More often than not id look in my mirror and see an accident just happened, cars into the cones or side swiped into the opposite lanes. I tell you, I was bloody lucky not to be involved in an accident…
As we drive on the LEFT in this country 
it’s imperative that the first professional hgv class one driver is over to the left 
very simple! 
middle lane merchant needs to drive properly too 
it’s not hard AND IT’S NOT NARROW EITHER 
Can’t say I’ve ever had a problem really. If you are in L1 and you feel it’s a bit tight as another truck comes past in L2, just drop it back a notch or two and let Hurry-Ing Henry through quickly, then speed up again when you can see his back doors
Equally if you feel like Speedy Gonsalez yourself and fancy an overtake, do it on the limiter, not 50.15mph, and if you need a bit of the white line on your O/S, then take it, to make the Dawdling Dennis next to you feel a bit safer as you fly by. Then slow down to the correct speed again.
It’s really not rocket science chaps/chappesses, we are the pros on the road everyday, and it’s our jobs to look after the non pros, and agency drivers, we share the motorway networks with
On a serious note, texting while driving in narrow lanes should be a killing offence. No appeals, straight to coffin city for the offender!
Janos:
Local roadworks at the end of the two lane Knowsley Expressway has outer lane width restriction of 2.5m, but also has signs saying use both lanes to turn right at the roundabout. Does not stop trucks flying down the outer lane, an inch from the mirrors of trucks observing the signs on the inside lane. What is going on?
Had my mirror taken clean off by some idiot doing this in that exact place
The point is the narrowing of lanes leaves very little margin for error and all for what reason?? They have cameras covering safety for the workers. Why make things more difficult than it needs to be.
Every day there is a accident through them.
Just make it one lane, car drivers usually make a 40mph rolling road block most of the time so it might as well be one lane.
On a similar note does anybody know why dyslexic people are allowed to drive?? When i see a 50 sign i slow to 50, alot of car drivers see a 50 sign and slow to 40, a car driver slowing from 70 to 40 when they only have to slow to 50 really puzzles me.
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bubsy06:
Just make it one lane, car drivers usually make a 40mph rolling road block most of the time so it might as well be one lane.
On a similar note does anybody know why dyslexic people are allowed to drive?? When i see a 50 sign i slow to 50, alot of car drivers see a 50 sign and slow to 40, a car driver slowing from 70 to 40 when they only have to slow to 50 really puzzles me.Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk
They think they are doing 10 mph more than they actually are,because the speedo in a car is not calibrated.
Suedehead:
bubsy06:
Just make it one lane, car drivers usually make a 40mph rolling road block most of the time so it might as well be one lane.
On a similar note does anybody know why dyslexic people are allowed to drive?? When i see a 50 sign i slow to 50, alot of car drivers see a 50 sign and slow to 40, a car driver slowing from 70 to 40 when they only have to slow to 50 really puzzles me.Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk
They think they are doing 10 mph more than they actually are,because the speedo in a car is not calibrated.
If they’re that far out it should be illegal if it isn’t already.
The issue of cars travelling through road works at less than the posted limit is 3 fold.
It always used to be the case that a car speedo had to be accurate to 10%. But the cardinal rule was that it was better to be 10% over reading rather than 1% under reading. I would imagine modern digital numerical speedo’s are much closer than 10%, but still never under reading.
Analogue speedo’'s in cars show a much greater range on a smaller dial than in a truck, it’s therefore more difficult to set the speed to an exact speed than it is for the driver of a truck.
3.most importantly IMO, The temporary limit through road works is a limit, not a target. Any driver is perfectly entitled to drive below that limit.
Could it be that when you come up behind a car travelling through the road works at a speed of 40 mph, the driver of the car has decided to travel at just below the limit to ensure he/she obeys the rules and doesn’t get a speeding fine (maybe they have points already and wish no more), the car speedo shows 45 > 50 mph, the allowable accuracy means it’s nearer 40 > 45.
Do not assume every body driving a car knows as much about the roads and camera enforcement as you do. They may well believe the cameras will catch and fine them at 51mph.
It really won’t make that much difference to your day to just sit behind and chill out through the road works and then get on with it when the works section is finished.
I really don’t understand the obsession a lot of drivers demonstrate these days with having to have the throttle flat to the floor at every possible available opportunity. You’ll be much less stressed if you allow yourself to back off and just go with the flow.
Its inconsistent I can’t deal with. Ok, drive below the target speed, but keep the speed consistent. Not 40 down to 35 up to 45 back down to 40 in NSL or even 50 target in road works is just stupid and uses my energy reserve because cc is useless in that scenerio.
I don’t understand why people don’t keep left unless overtaking.
It is very basic highway code.
Try driving on the German Autobahns where they put contraflows on 2-lane motorways - 4 lanes of traffic plus a central divider into the space normally used for two lanes plus a hard shoulder.
I think they should ban trucks overtaking in the narrow lane roadworks, many a time I have been against the kerbs when a fellow artic decides he wants to overtake, even though theres very little space to manoeuvre…it has frightened the ■■■■ out of me sometimes.