When does lane 1 become a slip lane and when to change lane?

[AndyN01]

Hi,

I knew I'd seen something a bit more comprehensive . It's a pdf doc

From Google:


Traffic Signs Manual - Chapter 5 - Road Markings - GOV.UK

Happy reading

[Number 6]

Originally Posted by AndyN01

Hi,

I knew I'd seen something a bit more comprehensive . It's a pdf doc

From Google:


Traffic Signs Manual - Chapter 5 - Road Markings - GOV.UK

Happy reading

I think Page 77 is the relevant one for macafee to read. I hope. Which is what several of us have already said. But???

[macafee2]

Originally Posted by AndyN01

Hi,

I knew I'd seen something a bit more comprehensive . It's a pdf doc

From Google:


Traffic Signs Manual - Chapter 5 - Road Markings - GOV.UK

Happy reading

Thank you, heavy reading.

macafee2

[macafee2]

Originally Posted by MSS

Here's a pragmatic answer.

Lane 1 only becomes a slip lane or road when it has physically slipped off the main carriageway i.e. after the final countdown marker.

The time to change lanes would be between the first sign and the change of lines between lane 1 and 2.

That is my thinking as well, change lane at some point between the two.
The timing of the lane change I feel is situation dependent and not a hard and fast rule that you need to move across at an exact point.

The lane direction signs at a mile, 1/2 mile etc are purely giving information about which lane goes where in a "mile", "1/2" mile and don't mean that you need to change lane at that point.

macafee2

[Phil th Barrow]

Can i just say... ;-) ;-) ;-) Lane 1 is for driv....... Th rest is upto you.

If any one as built a motorway they will find they are infenatly more complex than th lay person would ever know.

If th cows in th field next to th motorway are brucilously eccredited, would that mean th fence holding then inn afto be of a different standard than th norm. ???? I darnt mention up coming camera's in th armco and etchings in th road under bridges as that might bring on great worry!!!

They know more about us than you think.

[MSS]

Originally Posted by Phil th Barrow

.........

They know more about us than you think.

They actually know more about us than we do ourselves!

[mileshawk56]

Dave, I think I maybe victim of my age but the Highway code was always said to be an advisory a guide and was not a statement of Statute law which which is the "will,must etc. and failing to adhere to its advice whilst it could be used as a contributory factor in legal proceedings was not in itself an offence. If its changed from that obviously Im wrong in my statement. Cheers either way. Chris S.

[another_clean_sheet]

Originally Posted by Phil th Barrow

Can i just say... ;-) ;-) ;-) Lane 1 is for driv....... Th rest is upto you.

If any one as built a motorway they will find they are infenatly more complex than th lay person would ever know.

If th cows in th field next to th motorway are brucilously eccredited, would that mean th fence holding then inn afto be of a different standard than th norm. ???? I darnt mention up coming camera's in th armco and etchings in th road under bridges as that might bring on great worry!!!

They know more about us than you think.

Could we write in English rather than what I assume is text speak?
Inn = in, th = the, as = has, then = them, Darnt = dare not, infenatly = infinitely. "brucilously eccredited", "afto" I have not a clue what they are meant to mean.

[stocktake]

Originally Posted by mileshawk56

Dave, I think I maybe victim of my age but the Highway code was always said to be an advisory a guide and was not a statement of Statute law which which is the "will,must etc. and failing to adhere to its advice whilst it could be used as a contributory factor in legal proceedings was not in itself an offence. If its changed from that obviously Im wrong in my statement. Cheers either way. Chris S.

Hi Chris, confession time. I thought exactly the same as you. Then I checked the on line pdf of the highway code. My previous post is a cut and paste from the pdf. So, we both learnt something

[The Rovering Member]

[QUOTE=macafee2;2902786]

Originally Posted by Number 6

Currently thinking abut one junction but i guess in general will be the same. The sign is on a motorway. The short white lines that for me denote the start of a slip lane, are on the motorway but the motorway then ends and all lanes end up at a traffic light controlled junction

macafee2

I think you'll find the slip roads are counted as part of the motorway. Once you pass the blue marker sign denoting M..?, you're on it & you're not off it until you've actually left the exit slip onto the roundabout/road, whatever it is.