Cycling on roads illegal 494Steve Firth "Cycle journalist Simon Withers, formerly a staffer on Cycling Plus, said: "Drive a car with dodgy tyres and kill four cyclists and you rack up a hefty six points...
According to my calculations, ( probably not 100pc watertight ) any car capable of 0 to 60mph in 15secs or less will make it from 30 to 60 within 170yds. Lorries are limited to 56mph, so most cars should make it OK. Usually in such a situation the slow moving vehicle is able to fit into the traffic OK, it's the 5 cars bunched up behind it which get into problems.
Cycling on roads illegal 495Robin Quote: "But when cyclist Daniel Cadden appeared before a particular district judge last week, he the district judge threw the book at the 25-year-old software...
About 7secs in the above example. Anyway entrance slip roads are for accelerating not slowing down.
My experience of British motorways at busy periods is that at least 50pc of cars are in lane 3 with lane 1 and 2 relatively peaceful. If the lane was at full capacity then the addition of just a few cars would bring it to a standstill, traffic will automatically move over to the next lane if it is less busy.
I will concede one point though. I've never understood the thinking behind the tapered sliproads. It is as though all the joining traffic is projected towards a certain point at which it is expected to join one vehicle at a time, instead of a parallel stretch allowing more vehicles to join simulteneously.
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Geoff
