Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

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Re: Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

Postby Horse » Fri Jan 12, 2018 10:50 am

Your 'standard' is how you drive alone, not how you drive during a test.

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Re: Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

Postby jont- » Fri Jan 12, 2018 10:54 am

Horse wrote:
AndyP wrote:[Bit like the There are no roundabouts an Motorways 'one] :headbang:


*Cough* M3 J6 spur.

Looks like the motorway ends just before the roundabout?

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Re: Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

Postby crr003 » Fri Jan 12, 2018 10:55 am

Horse wrote:IIRC the hedge across the bridge is to facilitate with wildlife crossing a new road.

And there's me thinking it's for the Policeman with his camera to hide behind........

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Re: Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

Postby Horse » Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:13 am

jont- wrote:
Horse wrote:
AndyP wrote:[Bit like the There are no roundabouts an Motorways 'one] :headbang:


*Cough* M3 J6 spur.

Looks like the motorway ends just before the roundabout?


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Re: Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

Postby Horse » Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:39 am

A quick look on:
http://www.pathetic.org.uk/
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/

Shows . . .
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/ind ... title=A339
"Traffic then reaches the Black Dam roundabout which is a signal controlled roundabout with the A30 (east to Camberley, west for the Southern Ringway and to Winchester). Straight on will take you onto the spur for the M3 at J6. The A339 itself is the junior partner in a multiplex with the A30 along the Southern Ringway for about one mile, and then re-appears turning off southwards towards Alton."

Also:
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/motorway/m3/ map

'Pathetic' doesn't have anything about it - I would have expected it to!
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Re: Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

Postby AndyP » Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:40 pm

WOW.

THAT IS ALL AMAZING.

Loved the Pathetic Motorways. Brilliant.

THANKS
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Re: Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

Postby kfae8959 » Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:52 pm

martine wrote:What do people think of this:

sign


I find them distracting. There is a pair at the Liverpool end of the M62, and they can be almost dazzling, especially at dusk. There's also one at the M6 / M5 split at Walsall.

Something in my mind told me that advertizing was not allowed on motorways - hence the lorry trailers that happen to get left in fields - but I haven't been able to find any prohibition, and the local authority responsible for the M62 boards didn't know of it. But if adverts are allowed on motorways, why aren't they more widespread? Is there simply planning guidance against them?

David

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Re: Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

Postby GTR1400MAN » Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:20 pm

If you look on Google Maps they now think the A14 is the A14(M) for the whole length!
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Re: Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

Postby Horse » Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:22 pm

AndyP wrote:WOW.

THAT IS ALL AMAZING.

Loved the Pathetic Motorways. Brilliant.

THANKS


:) :) :)

It's mad, eh!
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Re: Keep drivers alert? Add scenery......

Postby kfae8959 » Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:49 pm

jont- wrote:
Horse wrote:
AndyP wrote:[Bit like the There are no roundabouts an Motorways 'one] :headbang:


*Cough* M3 J6 spur.

Looks like the motorway ends just before the roundabout?


I'm fairly sure the roundabout at the M58 / M6 junction is all motorway - and it's got traffic lights on it!

David


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