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Hard shoulder use
DaveS:
If someone breaks down I can see amultiple shunt happening, seems to happen most days on the M6 in the normal lanes!
landyman37:
--- Quote from: "MuddyMike" ---Left the NEC by the M42 on Tuesday and had my first experiance of the new innovation of using the hard shoulder as a traffic lane. Overhead gantries all showing 50 MPH and directing traffic to use the hard shoulder.
Seemed to work well.
Mike
--- End quote ---
Had my 1st go at it yesterday bit of a nightmare when you stay on the solder at the exits end up getting off then back on :oops: :oops: :oops:
Evilgoat:
Its an astonishingly STUPID idea.
Scenario one. Someone losses a wheel, major drivetrain component and stops in the main lanes dead. They are toast. So it happens and they get into the hard shoulder. No matter how good the system is, the warning will be dealyed. So Cue Sales rep in vectra on the phone :
Bang, driver of first car and rep seriously injured probobly fatally
Cue EU trucker loaded up on caffine and deadlines - Bang, innocent is dead, and probobly massive multiple pile-up.
Scenario 2, signs are up, one of the above too is too much in a hurry to see, same result.
Scenarios 3, catastrophic failure on any of the normal lanes oops, no escape route. Maybe lucky, maybe another multiple, because in rush hour everyone drives SOOOOOO well.
The hard shoulder is not safe without cars in it. What totall and utter moron thought this up.
I reckon Fatality within the next 2 months.
Nick666:
Yea, sounds about right.
Berliner Beer:
So why do "they" allow this use of the hard shoulder?
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