What a p*****k 5On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:37:27 GMT, Harry Bloomfield Of course, but the car park was 90% empty...
Same here in East Anglia. Scares the Sh**e out of me most of the time. As soon as they see the NSL sign its foot down no matter how poor the road and without any regard for conditions. Mostly narrow C clbutt roads with no white lines in centre of road, let alone the edge where it joins the fields and undulating surface that makes it like a roller-coaster ride over 50. Recently I was being tailgated at 60 near Thetford on a poor B road. I could not believe what I saw in my mirror. A woman driving with three unrestrained kids in car (standing and moving about) and wait for it.... She was on the bloody phone for all of the time she was behind me.
The local busses don't exactly set a good example either. I couldn't keep up with one a narrow C road and I was doing 60. He was churning up the mud at the (undefined) edge of the road when squeezing past vehicles coming from opposite direction due to narrow road. It was dark too. From my memory, the limit for busses is 50 on an NSL road.
What drives me mad too is the ridiculous use of the NSL signs. Typical example is a 30 limit ends, so they place a NSL sign there, but its only 300ft from a roundabout. NSL sign at end of 40 limit only 200ft from sharp bend (sharp deviation chevrons on bend) and only just around the bend it becomes 30. Madness.
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