Dudley wrote:
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Doesn't make any difference, as noone should need to go past me or through where I am in the middle lane, as they shouldn't be going faster than me.
So it's better you break the law rather than them? (as you are doing if you're not in the leftmost lane when not overtaking)
I'll start by saying I partially agree with you, and was banging on about doing 70 in the middle lane to get the inevitable comedy reaction.
So.
Is it actually against the law to sit in the middle lane if the inside lane's free? Or is it just a recommendation in the Highway Code that you don't? Because if it's the latter, then surely it's people breaking the speed limit who can fuck off, because only one party in that situation is breaking the law? Plus - there's a handy lane on the outside they can use to go past...
EDIT - a quick google and I can't find anything about sitting in the middle lane being illegal. Found a few petitions asking for it to be made illegal, though....
If you could post a link that'd be great, ta.
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You're not the police, fuck off with your trying to be them.
Which is, by that logic, what the speeding person is doing by trying to flash the person in the middle lane out of the way, isn't it?
EDIT - Ah, you've edited. And you're breaking the law even more by undertaking.
Moving away from the semi-mythical empty motorway, what about when someone stays in the middle lane rather than weave in and out of the inside lane along a strung-out line of lorries? Because I've seen drivers trying to do 90 plus go spastic at people in the middle lane doing 80 not weaving in out of their way for 5 seconds, rather than use the outside lane to overtake. Which strikes me as over the top.
I think a problem is that different people have different ideas of when you should move into the inside lane rather than continue to use the middle lane to overtake the traffic in the inside lane - when there's a car length gap? 100 metres? 200?
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Or if it was empty and I was feeling beligerent, change lanes twice to go round on the right, then immediately change back left two to be where I, and you should be.
Yeah, I'll stick my hand up and say that I do this too. Whilst I don't think sitting in the middle lane deserves the absolute bouncing-in-the-seat fury I've seen people display (even, as in the example above, where it's someon in the middle lane for a couple hundred metres between lorries), it does piss me off when people do this in fairly sparse traffic. So I make a point of it by overtaking them and pulling into the inside lane in front of them.
I'm against people sitting in the middle lane when it's quiet, but I get really wound up by people who think that if there's even a car length on the inside lane that you could pull into, you should do so and let them past, rather than let you carry on overtaking the line of traffic and them go round you on the outside. And there are a lot of people like this.
More so because (a) they're getting wound up about not being able to break the law* and (b) there is a handy lane on the outside.
*I break the law, as I drive at 80 on average when it's safe to do so. But I don't treat it as my
right to do so. Which is basically what winds me up about these people.