Twolane sliproad onto motorway


Twolane sliproad onto motorway 1622 Why? That is absolutely the wrong thing to do. Stay in the left lane, unless you are overtaking something in L1. Keep glancing over to L1 of... I took a DC+motorway driving lesson the other day. The sliproads around here are of three kinds: - 'zippers' where the slip road is one lane that becomes the new L1 on the mway - sliproads with two lanes that become separated by a solid line, so each sliplane merges onto L1 separately - sliproads with two lanes but no solid line; both slip lanes join L1 (actually onto a DC in this case) Wrong way incident Ironic, that when there's so much CCTV about, this driver appears to have got away with it - "Tue 10 Jan 2006 Dual carriageway driver goes wrong direction for ten miles POLICE... I was a little confused about the last case. My instructor said to signal right and get into the right lane of the slip road as soon as possible, then continue signalling right to merge onto the DC. However this now has me wondering, then what is the left lane of the slip road for? When we did the lesson it was fairly quiet, but I could imagine being in the the left lane when the right lane is very busy; in this case the guys in the right lane would block my path to merge onto the DC; or I could wait for the right lane to merge then try to filter over afterwards, but there's only a short length of filter lane left after the right lane has dissappeared (plus the main L1 will then be packed with the right sliplane people who just moved into it). Could someone please clafify to me exactly what the HC-etiquette is for these two-lane sliproads? Is the idea that the right sliplane guys overtake me (in the left lane) and merge on before me -- if so, couldn't I end up being blocked into the left lane by a stream of faster moving cars on the right? Jimmymac and Dave Larrington, collaboration in Hell 2006 Gastric Bypbutt Candidate of the Year! With over 1 million hits per month, HRS has set a world record of sorts in the start up... Also -- after that lesson, I went for a drive on a quiet day, but I got beeped at on another sliproad (M40 J15) , this one started off as two lanes so I moved to the right early, but then I think the right lane merges onto the left just before the reach the mway. It was dark and I didn't register the merge arrow painted on the road early enough, so I cut up a guy in the left lane :-( Is this a normal layout for a two-lane mway sliproad? Are there any other layouts I should know about as well? Is there a definative source of infomation for questions like this... or is it uk.rec.driving? :-)

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