Should We Look To Restrict The Use Of Our Major Roads During Rush Hour Or Permentantly?

[youngmafbog]

As I'm currently covering around 700 miles a week mainly on motorway and dual carriageway this is one thing dear to my heart.

What I have observed is that HGV's are the major (not the only before someone gets on their high horse) cause of hold ups. So should we restrict them on dual carriageways and motorways say between 6:00 and 9:30 and 16:00 and 19:00 ?

Alternatively perhaps as a start restrict vehicles not doing 70 to the left hand lane only? In conjunction with this it should be illegal to restrict HGVs to below 60 as this is what often causes the problem?

Thoughts Ladies and Gentlemen?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6323075/Tractors-banned-roads-speed-traffic-improve-safety.html

[hc4361]

Where would the HGVs go during these restricted hours?

[zebo]

Germany has, or had, a system during the Summer whereby HGVs were not allowed on the Autobahns at the weekend, something like Friday 6pm to Sunday 10pm, allowing the holiday traffic to move easily. It was common on Sunday evenings to see them queuing in the areas around the access roads waiting for 10pm.

[mushroom25]

//This only works because they move a lot of freight by train. It simply wouldn't work here. //

the economics of rail freight in the UK is balanced on a knife edge. if the government were minded to permit 60T trucks on UK roads, the business case for freight trains would vanish overnight, never to return.

[Old_Geezer]

Wasting fuel at a rate of knots or gaining time at a rate of knots ? One could apply the same argument to any lower speed so it's not really applicable. Speed should be regulated by safety levels, and motorways are the safest roads aren't they ? In decent weather the fact that most go more than 70mph and the road is still the safest around suggests that the limit is too low. The major issues are tailgaters, slow vehicles in the right hand lanes, those who constantly chop and change lanes, under-takers, those who think putting an indicator on is an automatic right to pull out, those who come out in your braking space instead of looking in the mirror for a reasonable gap, those who cut you up pulling back in, those for whom look/signal/manoeuvre are tick boxes not stages and so indicate as you are about to pass thus worrying you that they're daft enough to intend to pull out in front of you. Probably covers most issues. Oh, and cars should have blind spot mirrors or cctv or something; it's terrible folk can actually look and not see before making a move.

[spathiphyllum]

Leave as is imo

[youngmafbog]

//Got to laugh at the sheer double standard of driving 700 miles a week and then complaining about congestion. //

Train problems Gromit, caused by your lefty mates.

Still laughing?

[youngmafbog]

IMHO Freight should be on the road.

Where would they go during these hours. Well most would move to overnight I would imagine.

The alternative is to build more roads and stop people coming ito the country, but I doubt that would please all you liberals.

[cassa333]

Freight and business commuters are the lifeblood of the country so curtailing anything that hinders that would be disastrous for the economy I should think.

I think it needs the people using the motorways for non business purposes (school run, pottering about, leisure time etc not very well put I know but can’t think of the right terms at the moment) should consider when they travel.

[hc4361]

Lots of freight is moved overnight already. The motorways are most congested at holiday times when leisure drivers are out in force.
I avoid the motorway wherever possible when I'm not on business even for very long journeys. More people should do the same.