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Re: Double White Line Meaning?

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 7:41 pm
by TheInsanity1234
Revian wrote:
TheInsanity1234 wrote:In my defence, I never once read the Highway Code...

I wouldn't advise the use of that as a defence... :D

Ian

Well, I didn't need to, I managed to pass the theory test at 13 years old on my second ever attempt at a mock one... :mrgreen:

Re: Double White Line Meaning?

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 7:53 pm
by Revian
But you might need to.... ;-)

Re: Double White Line Meaning?

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:02 pm
by TheInsanity1234
Well, that's the wonderful thing about this country, provided my insurance is all well and good, and I'm not caught speeding twice in the next two years, I will never need to test my knowledge of the Highway Code ever again.

Re: Double White Line Meaning?

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:09 pm
by akirk
TheInsanity1234 wrote:Well, that's the wonderful thing about this country, provided my insurance is all well and good, and I'm not caught speeding twice in the next two years, I will never need to test my knowledge of the Highway Code ever again.


Except every day out on the road ;)
I know this a bit tongue-in-cheek, but if more drivers kept up to date with the Highway Code we might have less issues out on the road... I suspect a lot of folks would be surprised at how it has changed...
Alasdair

Re: Double White Line Meaning?

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:19 pm
by Revian
TheInsanity1234 wrote:Well, that's the wonderful thing about this country, provided my insurance is all well and good, and I'm not caught speeding twice in the next two years, I will never need to test my knowledge of the Highway Code ever again.

I really don't understand this? It's not about being caught... but about being a knowledgeable driver... And a safer driver. Homework....me thinks...for you.

Better than forum posting for a while?

Re: Double White Line Meaning?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:20 pm
by TheInsanity1234
Perhaps I should've put in [/sarcasm] :lol:

Re: Double White Line Meaning?

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:41 pm
by Revian
TheInsanity1234 wrote:Perhaps I should've put in [/sarcasm] :lol:

I'm not sure you've got space for that... ;)

Re: Double White Line Meaning?

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 7:54 am
by Triquet
There seems to be an awful lot of very long ghost islands ... double broken white lines with chevrons ... in the last few years. Sometimes they go on for miles. Obviously traffic engineers and local authorities seem to like them. They can of course be crossed, but the message seems to be "you may cross these if you REALLY have to, but we'd rather you didn't ..."

Re: Double White Line Meaning?

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 8:00 am
by akirk
Triquet wrote:There seems to be an awful lot of very long ghost islands ... double broken white lines with chevrons ... in the last few years. Sometimes they go on for miles. Obviously traffic engineers and local authorities seem to like them. They can of course be crossed, but the message seems to be "you may cross these if you REALLY have to, but we'd rather you didn't ..."


the irony with them is that I think the legal meaning is basically don't enter unless clear to do so - which kind of sums up every bit of road :D

I have also noticed this - plus an increasing use of the white return arrows before them - which tell you that you are an approaching a place where you will need to be on your side of the the road, so get back on your side of the road... now the interesting question of course is that in putting those two together there is a slight conflict - a road marking telling you to get back on your side road pre-empting a moment when you will need to be on your side of the road (e.g. solid white line ahead), yet the moment they are warning about doesn't require you to be on your side of the road and can be crossed easily, so why are the arrows there - technically incorrect?

Alasdair

Re: Double White Line Meaning?

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:38 pm
by Mr Cholmondeley-Warner
It's just the nanny state - idiots have come to grief by being on the wrong side of the road, so although there is no real hazard, or none that can't be spotted by an alert motorist and avoided, even if at some times of day there might be one, everybody has to be shepherded back to the nearside, for the sake of the LCD idiots.