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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: Motorbikes on Congested Motorways
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.101209.3713@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 10:12:09 GMT
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- Ian King (ianking@nnsgs52) wrote:
- : Here is a question I've been meaning to ask and it can really only be
- : answered by those of you who ride motorbikes on motorways during the rush hours.
-
- : Q. Suppose the traffic is stop/start and all three lanes are full. It is early
- : morning (7am ish), in the dark, on the M1 southbound, say around Junct 9 (to
- : give an idea of traffic density). What is happening is that cars/vans/lorries
- : are changing lanes when the traffic does start to move and this happens every
- : morning. The motorway is lit here.
- :
- : Now along comes a motorbike(s) between the outside lane and the middle lane
- : travelling faster (say 10-15mph) than the rest of the traffic. This happens
- : most mornings.
- :
- : Is it illegal to ride between the lanes?.
-
- It's certainly against the highway code for cars/vans/lorries to change
- lanes in solid slow moving traffic.
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