FINALLY - A useful matrix sign !

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skeete
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FINALLY - A useful matrix sign !

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On the M4 today, London bound between Bracknell and Maidenhead.

It read :

"Dont Hog the Middle Lane"

Needless to say everyone was ignoring it :roll: , at least its saying the right things for a change.
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Post by Guest »

OMG have you only just seen one of those, they've been on the M6/M74 for over a year now.

But yes you're right, they do tend to be ignored.

I work with a couple of people who confess to sticking to middle lane, (1 man and 1 woman), reason they gave....

"I can't get back out again when I need to"

"Get off the road" sprung to mind.

I would love to install one of those scrolling info panels in the back of a car and travel the motorways "educating" the poorer drivers of our society.

Just think of the things you could say on them !!! ooohh that would be fun...
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I don't hog the middle lane....i just like it there :zmurf:
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muppet wrote:I don't hog the middle lane....i just like it there :zmurf:
But !!! please tell me you don't sit there when you're not overtaking something in the 1st lane
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Snoops wrote:But !!! please tell me you don't sit there when you're not overtaking something in the 1st lane
Or even undertaking something in the 3rd! :shock:

TBH there are some stretches of motorway these days that are undriveable in the inside lane - but the road has to be really quiet for me to be in there - even in Froggy! :D

Could do with a matix sign that reads backwards in the windscreen too - so I could put things like - "REKNOLP UOY". :D

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Robert T wrote:Or even undertaking something in the 3rd! :shock:
If you can be undertaken, you are in the wrong lane.

When I see a car in the middle lane of an empty motorway I overtake in lane 3, move across to lane 1, let them overtake me, then do it again. They usually get the message by the third time. :twisted:
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