This country's a flippin carpark

[Foxholer]

In fairness to Doon I notice as well the further south I drive the worse the drivers seem to get.

Oddly, I found the opposite - at least in Edinburgh & East and Mid Lothian! So maybe it depends on how you define 'worse'!

Lane discipline is shocking everywhere though!

Nothing has really changed since this was made (1950) though! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZAZ_xu0DCg

 

[Tongo]

The not using the inside lane gets on my wick as well.
Also, when did the highway code change, so that people no longer use their mirrors, signal, wait for a gap and then move out to overtake on motorways. The new rule appears to just ask you to indicate as a token gesture and go regardless without properly checking - the number of people that just signal & go is getting silly now and dangerous as well!
Also, another rule change appears to mean that cars no longer need to indicate when they are going all the way round the roundabout, just to indicate when they come off (or not bother at all).
As has been said a few times, no one gives a toss about anybody else on the road - too much "I'm alright Jack" going on

Its now a case of go and then signal for too many people.

 

[patricks148]

You want to try driving up here.

No one indicates
No one looks before pulling out at a junction or roundabout.
No one lets anyone out of a turning or across a lane even if it makes no difference to them.
No one drives in the correct lane on a DC
I'm not even sure anyone has even seen a highway code let alone read it.

to make matters worse, we have several thousand tourists driving around with no idea where they are going or what side of the road they should be on.

:mmm::rofl::rofl:

 

[Beezerk]

Its now a case of go and then signal for too many people.

You missed out "quickly check Facebook" between go and signaling.

 

[Tashyboy]

Why on earth are you going from Southampton to Oxford via the M25, its utter madness

You should have gone M3 to Winchester then A34 and keep going till you bump into Oxford, its about 65 miles compared to well over 100 your way, mostly dual carriageway

Just sayin

Yup that's the route I took coming back from Southampton to Mansfield. My Tyrets had kicked in when I reached the Cowherds pub in Sothampton. Three heart attacks and a stroke later, I had reached Oxford and had lost the will to live. On a positive note I have it all to do a week on Saturday.

 

[Hacker Khan]

My lads a class one driver, he was on about J25 on the M1 north. It goes from 3 to 4 lanes, but hardly anyone Uses the inside lane, that's nigh on empty but 3 and 4 are rammed. You can spend billions on smart motorways, but a lot of drivers are not smart, if the motorways have six lanes. It would still be the same.

I'd like to pull you up on that as I use that stretch of the M1 regularly and I indeed use the inside lane a lot for undertaking all the muppets who won't move from the outside lanes despite the fact the inside lane is mostly empty.