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Subject: Re: [OM] About nothing at all
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 23:28:43 +1000
Per capita or total ?

...Wayne


> 
> France has double the fatalities that UK has.
> 
> 
> On 9 May 2013 06:08, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Yes it does because otherwise they'll be lane hopping or getting
> > impatient
> > - both recipes for disaster. The nominal speed limit on a British
> > motorway is 70mph but the fast lane always seems to be doing at least
> > 80 and apart from peak hours close to large cities, it all seems to go
> > smoothly too by our standards. You can get around the UK and France
> > very quickly on the two and three lane motorways and arterial roads.
> > The speed limit on the French autoroutes is 130kph (110 in rain) and
> > the standard fast lane speed seems to be around 150. That's what I
> > usually do while keeping in the middle lane and watching all the big
> > black Audis and Mercs crusising past me. I don't know what the
> > accident and fatality rates are there but I've never had a scare or seen
a
> serious accident on the autoroutes.
> > Here we have that imprecation "Keep left unless overtaking" which
> > no-one seems to take any notice of. There you tend to keep out of the
> > fast lane altogether unless you are passing.
> > Of course, French city driving and parking is quite another matter! An
> > entirely different skill set.
> > Andrew Fildes
> > afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > www.soultheft.com
> > Author/Publisher: The SLR Compendium -
> > http://www.blurb.com/books/3732813
> >
> >
> >
> > On 09/05/2013, at 12:17 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> >
> > > Does it make sense to keep the fast lane free only for drivers who
> > > want
> > to
> > > exceed the speed limit ?
> > >
> > > If you use all lanes then you increase the traffic carrying capacity
> > > of
> > the
> > > road as long as you don't have all lanes occupied by drivers
> > > travelling under the speed limit.
> >
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