People who drive 40 everywhere

My DH s getting a bit apprehensive about driving so doesn't do it any more. But he sometimes says to me "it's not a race slow down a bit" this is when i'm doing about 50 in a 60 which I do if I know I'm not holding anyone up. If it's a good road and busy then I drive to the conditions.
I used to have a 2 litre Mondeo which had a lot of power and so much fun to drive I now have a Fiesta which is fine and nippy but I do miss the power of the bigger car.

We're all busy, you make adjustments to your schedule to accommodate, no point in road raging

Not sure how driving a taxi is affected, you either charge for time or distance

Or you're a courier, or a carer/district nurse, or you're delivering groceries or driving a taxi or an ambulance, or one of many, many road users whose employer sets the travel times you're allowed, between visits/drops.

That makes more sense @VikingLady.
I can't think of many fast roads that have a short uphill slip road to join them. That sounds like poor road planning.

I do a lot of motorway driving and all the uphill sliproads are long enough to build up a bit of speed on.

Really?
You don't understand why people on a tight schedule get upset when inconsiderate drivers cause them problems?

I just realised going through my post and changing the autocorrects back to real English, I somehow deleted the bit that explained which sliproads I can't get up to speed on - it's just a couple that go uphill on the way to join! I'm fine on the rest, no problem at all. But my car simply does not accelerate uphill, regardless of gear (tested extensively since I drive that way every week).

I couldn't understand why people didn't believe me!

It’s a single dashed line. Honestly the road markings are irrelevant, it’s an absolute bastard of an entrance to a very fast dual carriageway, not helped because it’s not also an exit so there are no countdown markers to prompt traffic to move into the outside lane to allow traffic on. It’s a miracle there aren’t more accidents on that stretch.

Yeah, it's a 30 up to there, and then an NSL beyond. It isn't even tarmaced - it's basically foot-deep ruts and boulders and no-one drives up it unless in a tractor or a very serious 4x4. Great on a mountain bike or horse though.

@dustyspring the one I am talking about is a short slip road up a hill
I genuinely rev to the limits of my gears and have had the car 10 years so I know it well!
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If you're too nervous to drive - don't That's not realistic though. nearly everyone is nervous when they first pass their test and do their first solo trip - the few that aren't are a menace). And between us in this democracy we have created a society where in most of the country a car is all but necessary. So if that's the way we want to play it, we need to make it possible for almost everyone to be able to drive, which means sometimes being delayed by slower drivers, by keeping a good eye on what other drivers are doing. and by being clear and definite in our own driving so other people can understand what we're doing.

I don't think that's normal, I have a 1.0 litre and I still manage to join the motorway at 70, or just under 70 if I have a lot in the boot.

Yesterday had this. Behind some moron who went through the 30mph limit village of Tebay at 40mph and then carried on at 40mph on the NSL straight road towards Kirkby Stephen. The road is the trackbed of the old railway line so basically straight with very good visibility for several miles. Oncoming traffic meant it hard to overtake safely. The road is as below. Absolutely no reason for any half competent driver not to do 60mph. But a half competent driver wouldn't have gone through the 30mph at 40, would they?

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that's not quite what @blossomtoes was saying. She was saying that there are many NSL roads where it is unsafe to drive anywhere near the NSL road even on a bright, sunny, dry warm day when the road is dry and the sun is not in your eyes.

What bugs me is people pottering at 45 or less on a wide A road with good visibility, who then see the "Slow" sign at a bend and hit the brakes. "They didn't mean YOU!" I find myself yelling.

I was going for something more like that, but the one I was thinking of has actually had the limit changed to 30 recently, so I had to find another option.

The one I posted is probably fine at 35 for most of it, aside from one very sharp right hander that comes out of nowhere. I've seen a few people who've ploughed into the gate of the chicken farm because they've not spotted it in time.

Oh goodness! I'd probably do 35 on that. I thought you were going to show us something like this

Is the dashed line at the end of the slip road a single line or a double line of dashes? There's a difference, that lots of people don't understand/notice the difference. On motorways it's a single dashed line as it is on some dual carriageways. At junctions on other dual carriageways it's a double dashed line which means "Give Way" so stopping is actually usually the right thing to do if the major road is busy when there's a doubled dashed line as that means give way just as it would at a normal road junction where you stop and wait for a space on the main road.

But that's because there'll be a 30/40/50 restriction sign on the other side of the pole. ALL restricted roads must have a restriction sign on ALL side roads leading onto it, so where that happens they have to put another sign on the pole facing the other way to show the restriction/NSL. You make it look like someone has purposely decided that road is "fit" for NLS, whereas it's a consequence of imposing a restriction on the main road right behind the photography.

I agree with you that getting angry when driving is dangerous. It's natural to get frustrated by bad driving, but actual anger has no place on the road.

That said, I find driving at a speed you fancy, not making effective progress, and then saying everyone else should chill out about it shows an arrogance that shouldn't be on the road either.

All sliproads aren’t equal. I regularly use a very short one with very poor visibility - essentially you can’t see a thing until you’re virtually on the road. It’s a road heavily used by huge lorries. Basically you have to stop completely nine times out of ten or you’d get totalled.

Unless you're performing emergency brain surgery, you could just chill out and accept that's the nature of driving on over crowded roads, getting so impatient and angry is dangerous

Many years ago the local police offered free driving courses, so I duly went along to see if I could unlearn some bad habits. At the time we lived near a dual carriageway with a sliproad to join it.

I wasn't driving fast enough and the policeman told me that you should always join a dual carriageway or motorway at the same spred as the traffic on the inside lane. He said it was much safer to brake than to try and speed up.

It sounds like you are changing gear too early.

My 2 bugs are drivers doing 30 all the way where we are and people who do not use dual and motorway lanes correctly

Oh, and this one, I would have loved to know what the Google maps car driver was thinking when driving up here.

This drives me insane but the worst part for me is not the 40 in the 60 zone (although that can be infuriating) but the 40 in the 30 zone. I just can’t stand people driving past playgrounds in villages etc at that speed.