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[Sir Tigger KC]

'Smart' motorways are all well and good as long as the speed limits are appropriate for the level of traffic.    I went round the top half of the M25 a few months ago at about 8pm in light traffic and the gantry speed limit signs were at 40mph!   

So what to do?    Some were ignoring the signs and whizzing by at the usual 80-odd, some were speeding up and slowing down for the cameras and I just took a deep breath, set the cruise at 40mph, took a bite of my carrot and settled in for a long dull crawl around to Essex. 

[tunnie]

Never been done by M25 cams before, flown through at 80+ when signs said 40.

[Varche]

I was going to post on this when I got on this evening. Just come back from Scarborough. 30 years ago I could do the journey in 2 hours and 30 minutes. best ever was 2.20.Today- admittedly a bank holiday took 4 hours 30 of driving. First 30 miles took over 90 minutes.

Smart motorways? Well I saw the M1 from leicester to Sheffield.50mph and a zillion yellow average speed cameras. Some cars must have had cloaking devices because they belted past. Any work happening? NO. Five days ago, any work happening? Well we saw two men with clipboards.

Some questions. Is that pink electric cable conduit the finished product? It is fastened to the top of the central concrete armco for mile after mile occasioanlly going up and over a bridge or near Sheffield on the floor held in place by a sandbag every couple of yards. My question is if that is the finished product what happens when there is a bad smash and something skims the top of the central reservation for a few hundred metres.? Why didn't they just bury it once?

Second question. This is based on my experience of Smart things like TVs. What happens when the system buffers or hangs or worse needs a restart? Does everyone have to stop and wait?

Observation about Uk driving. What a load of prats most drivers are. Very poor anticipation, rubbish at merging at end of a dual carriageway. I guess they are too busy texting or checking sat nav is sending them home.

[aaronjb]

I did Bracknell to Northampton in an hour and a half on Monday morning, Northampton to Peterborough in an hour and a half and then on Monday evening Peterborough to Bracknell in an hour and three quarters. It was bliss (mostly, M1 Luton is always a bit slow thanks to the blacked-out Lexus crowd)..

I'd forgotten what fast moving motorways were like

[TheBoy]

Observation about Uk driving. What a load of prats most drivers are. Very poor anticipation, rubbish at merging at end of a dual carriageway.

I think we in the UK have a dreadful mix of lack of awareness of what's going on around coupled with intense arrogance.