new plans for four Lane motorways

[shakey_Joe]

There are plans for a new four lane motorway, and instead of just adding one more lane. The goverment plans to make all the other lanes shorter by 6inch, witch will make it impossible to filter the traffic when it grinds to a hault as it alwayz does! it will also make it alot more dangerous riding on the motorways in general.

[carvell]

Nah it'll never happen.

When they take the width of the lanes down to 6'-6" like they seem to do in road works with the pretty fluroescent markers, they always impose a speed limit fo 40 or something.

I can't see it happening.
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[shakey_Joe]

well it has to go past goverment yet, but they are pushing for it, they have start dates and finish dates, i will find them out, but its like 2020 before they do finish if they go ahead with the idea

[Rookie]

The Conservatives were promising to widen every road in the country if they got into power!

They're probably just testing the waters, all these sensationalist 'they're forcing through a dodgy bill' stories never amount to anything.

[NSR Mick]

nothing new there. The M60 round manchester has 4 narrow lanes in stretches.
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[syl]

6 inches off three lanes, 4 if you include the hard shoulder, only gives you 2 feet. Not enough room for a cycle lane. There must be more to it than that.
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[lozzypop1]

There's a stretch of the M4 done already....
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[grandmaster]

i'd heard (albeit a while back) that they were thinking of using the hard shoulder during peak times to add an extra lane.

Not sure what happened to the idea though..

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[bazza]

On the plus side, no-one will be able to take trucks or caravans on the motorways any more...


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[ram_doom]

Cant see it happening

Besides that... why is there a GIANT, and completely unrelated picture of an SV650s taking up my whole screen
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[impaler]

I refer the honourable gentlemen to:

https://www.highways.gov.uk/knowledge/11689.aspx

It's most definitely true. Note that a lot of the extra room is going to be found by making the central reserve a hell of a lot narrower - I hope their new "restraint system" is up to the job...
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[syl]

Wonder what the "slow lane" that they refer to is? They've spent long enough in the past saying that there is no such thing as a "fast lane", just "overtaking lanes".
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[Resurrection]

[G]

Erm, 6 inches off a lane I doubt is going to make it /massively/ more difficult to filter.

I'm guessing you don't live near London .