Thank Christ for that ! (it was the comment above about the police adding captions about being aware of trucks' blind spots that made me wonder)Nope. The guy that posted the video, MrTrucker2003, did.
Project - I've always found you a bit of an argumentative pedantic troll on here - but that has just gone to a new level. You, and I, can call the lanes whatever we chose to. Left, right, fast, slow, 1, 2, inside, outside; for the purposes of communication all that matters is people understand what you are talking about. In my experience the vast majority of drivers [indeed everyone I have ever met] understand which lane you mean by fast lane and therefore there is de facto a 'fast lane' even if it has no special status as being faster than the other lanes. To say that the lane doesn't exist is like saying HGV's don't exist.[b]project:[/b] There is no such thing as a fast lane on a motorway, just an inside lane ,outside lane and middle lane, or lane 1 2 or 3 or 4.Plus the hard shoulder.
The maximum legal speed is 70mph, for lorries and coaches a lot lower,so its not a fast lane, even though traffic using it may be going faster than the traffic in the other lanes.
The technical and legal description is by the description i have given above,you are free to call them what you want, but i deal in facts not nicknames or what some people call them as an excuse to go faster.
HGV,s are now called Large goods vehicles and buses and coaches Passenger carrying vehicles, PCV,S.
Also a bus running in a bus lane on the left or right hand side of the carrigeway, may be moving faster than the traffic either side, due to the bus lane allowing only buses to use it.
So that would make the bus lane the fast lane, if one applies your logic.
Always pleased to help.
Well, this is just sad. Why so much aggrovation being caused and reacted to? I'm a fairly competent pain in the arse myself, but I save it for the real world...why on a forum for people that share a common interest is there so much desire to talk down?
Yes, probably naive myself, but there's something wrong here.
Sod it, bed. Job tomorrow where people will just stick to slagging people off behind their back instead of to their face, repeatedly, without consideration of anything other than some typed text.
I know, someone will pick on this post no doubt...but I remember mint sauce. Cycling wasn't this back then; it was luuuurve. Seriously, it was. Not this mush.
Night all!
Forums are NOT REAL LIFE, theyre on the internet, but im the same in real life, precise and helpful and also like to make a point and am willing and able to accept what others say, even when wrong.
and wether in real life or the internet, i dont think i ever slag anyone off behind their back or to their face, because life is short, and we should all take a step back and have a laugh.
[quote=project ]Forums are NOT REAL LIFE
Unless I am imagining you, then you are, indeed, REAL. 😛
Looks at reflection on screen and yes i am real.
Forums are a collection of words and pictures , produced electronicly by the typist.or data entry person.
But don't they also have a [i]soul[/i]?
actually I consider 70 mph quite fast, so it is a 'fast lane' your error is in assuming that by referring to the overtaking lane (which to be effective as an overtaking lane must be faster than the other lane(s)) as a fast lane that it means the limit is different.[b]project[/b] -
The maximum legal speed is 70mph, for lorries and coaches a lot lower,so its not a fast lane, even though traffic using it may be going faster than the traffic in the other lanes.
But this is STW not the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, the Road Traffic Act or Court Papers, so "plain English" usually works fine; indeed "Fast Lane" is so widely used and undestood that it is featured in the Collins English Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionaries with the following definitions:The technical and legal description is by the description i have given above
[i]"(n) the outside lane on a motorway or dual carriageway for vehicles overtaking or travelling at high speed"
"noun
a lane of a motorway or dual carriageway for use by traffic that is overtaking or moving more quickly than the rest."[/i]
apparently I am not, as someone who seems to be of reasonable intelligence feels it necessary to "correct" me, perhaps in a weird attempt at showing his intelligence. If I am free to use it, and the meaning was apparent I'm not sure the point of your post which added no value to the thread or the forum in general.you are free to call them what you want, but i deal in facts not nicknames
or what some people call them as an excuse to go faster.
really? people think fast means in excess of the speed limit? I can't say I've ever met someone who thought the phrase 'fast lane' should be interpreted as 'as fast as you like lane'.
that was my point - 'technically' HGV's no longer 'exist' but everyone knows what is meant and only someone trying to feign intellect would feel it necessary to correct the use of HGV in normal conversation (or a non-technical forum).HGV,s are now called Large goods vehicles
did I miss a bus lane in the original video?Also a bus running in a bus lane on the left or right hand side of the carrigeway, may be moving faster than the traffic either side, due to the bus lane allowing only buses to use it.So that would make the bus lane the fast lane, if one applies your logic.
you must be a fun guy to be around!but im the same in real life
Only buses in a bus lane?
I've been hit by a lorry on a dual carriageway - I'm not going to give the details because someone will say I was in the wrong or I could have avoided it. I've also witnessed a couple of accidents at high speed and had to take action and been shunted from behind in the FAST LANE of the motorway.
All I will say is that you don't have time to think, only time to react - instinct just takes over. I would presume that your instincts would choose more appropriate actions the more experience you have of accidents, but perhaps fortunately they don't happen often enough to improve your reactions.
The 'fast lane'...as stated previously, NO SUCH THING!!
Lane 1 limit: 70mph
Lane 2 limit: 70mph
Lane 3 limit: 70mph
Lane 4 limit: 70mph
So which is the 'fast lane' ?
Driving up the M1 near Sheffield a few weeks back, i'm in lane 1 doing 70mph, nearest car in front of me in the same lane was approx 200yds ahead.
Lanes 2 & 3 both bumper to bumper with heavy traffic doing, say, 65mph. So, was I in this mythical 'fast lane' ?
Or....is the 'fast lane' a special lane for muslims during ramadam ?
Wow! The internet bellendery has reached new [s]heights[/s] lows 🙄
Poly why the character assaination, we have never met, i just pointed outpolitely there is no fast lane, and others have agreed.
Poly why the character assaination, we have never met, i just pointed outpolitely there is no fast lane, and others have agreed.
Because it is pedantry of the highest order, adds nothing to thread, and simply annoys people?
HTH
Yep, think Poly has lost the plot.
I was referring to your insistence that something widely accepted as being called the fast lane [b][i][u]MUST[/u][/i][/b] be known as Lane 2 (or whatever).
The fact you can't seen this means that poly may have a point.
Comes in, looks around .... Forks off.....