Rule 259 of The Highway Code
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Rule 259 of The Highway Code
Rule 259 of The Highway Code is about joining motorways
It states:
When you join the motorway, you will normally approach it from a road on the left (a slip road) or from an adjoining motorway. You should:
Give priority to traffic already on the motorway
Check the traffic on the motorway and match your speed to fit safely into the traffic flow in the left-hand lane
Not cross solid white lines that separate lanes or use the hard shoulder
Stay on the slip road if it continues as an extra lane on the motorway
Remain in the left-hand lane long enough to adjust to the speed of traffic before considering overtaking
You can read all The Highway Code rules online, for free, to ensure you're keeping Britain's roads safe
http://ow.ly/Hn5g50OBGgb
It states:
When you join the motorway, you will normally approach it from a road on the left (a slip road) or from an adjoining motorway. You should:
Give priority to traffic already on the motorway
Check the traffic on the motorway and match your speed to fit safely into the traffic flow in the left-hand lane
Not cross solid white lines that separate lanes or use the hard shoulder
Stay on the slip road if it continues as an extra lane on the motorway
Remain in the left-hand lane long enough to adjust to the speed of traffic before considering overtaking
You can read all The Highway Code rules online, for free, to ensure you're keeping Britain's roads safe
http://ow.ly/Hn5g50OBGgb
Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
Normally!
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
Yes, but what the knobheads who stay in lane one, at the same speed, never giving you a chance to get in? That's just as dangerous.
If you end up having to virtually stop on the slip road that's not a good thing.
If you end up having to virtually stop on the slip road that's not a good thing.
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
You can. Sometimes.RickyBobby wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:35 pmSometimes you can join a motorway carriageway from the right. Take junction 25 on the m60 going anticlockwise for example.
Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
It frustrates the hell out of me does inconsiderate driving but, like many aspects of the HC, the key word is should, not must.
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
We need to adopt the French system of moving into the middle at motorway junctions to allow the traffic coming on to join safely
Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
If you are in lane one,it's not always possible to move out into lane two due to traffic outside you in lane two.At the end of the day the onus is on the cars coming on to the slip Rd to adjust their speed as they approach the junction.dougcollins wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:04 pmYes, but what the knobheads who stay in lane one, at the same speed, never giving you a chance to get in? That's just as dangerous.
If you end up having to virtually stop on the slip road that's not a good thing.
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It's up to you to adjust your speed accordingly.dougcollins wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:04 pmYes, but what the knobheads who stay in lane one, at the same speed, never giving you a chance to get in? That's just as dangerous.
If you end up having to virtually stop on the slip road that's not a good thing.
Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
The second bullet point is extremely difficult where I live. When I join the M6, the traffic in the left hand lane is usually stationary.No Ney Never wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:02 pmRule 259 of The Highway Code is about joining motorways
It states:
When you join the motorway, you will normally approach it from a road on the left (a slip road) or from an adjoining motorway. You should:
Give priority to traffic already on the motorway
Check the traffic on the motorway and match your speed to fit safely into the traffic flow in the left-hand lane
Not cross solid white lines that separate lanes or use the hard shoulder
Stay on the slip road if it continues as an extra lane on the motorway
Remain in the left-hand lane long enough to adjust to the speed of traffic before considering overtaking
You can read all The Highway Code rules online, for free, to ensure you're keeping Britain's roads safe
http://ow.ly/Hn5g50OBGgb
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
. You obviously don’t use the motorways that much. Have you seen the volumes of traffic? Move over to the middle lane? There’s no room!Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:47 pmWe need to adopt the French system of moving into the middle at motorway junctions to allow the traffic coming on to join safely
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
Not a problem for the bellends sat in the 3rd lane doing 65.Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:47 pmWe need to adopt the French system of moving into the middle at motorway junctions to allow the traffic coming on to join safely
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To be fair, I genuinely thought that was what you had to do on motorways, and it’s what I look to do where possible. I get very nervous when I’m in the left hand lane passing junctions and I have traffic merging on the left, and traffic on the right that don’t allow me to move into the middle lane. I feel like I’m going to be bottleneckedWoodleyclaret wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:47 pmWe need to adopt the French system of moving into the middle at motorway junctions to allow the traffic coming on to join safely
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
And yet the matrix signs constantly inform drivers to keep to the left when possible. Joining traffic from the slip road can join safely, by giving way to traffic ALREADY on the motorway. As per Highway Code. End of.Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:47 pmWe need to adopt the French system of moving into the middle at motorway junctions to allow the traffic coming on to join safely
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
Quiz questions.
How many cats eyes colours are there on a motorway, what are the colours and what do they signify?
How many cats eyes colours are there on a motorway, what are the colours and what do they signify?
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
There are some slip roads that are either very short or at an acute angle so you have a split second to make a go/no go decision.
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
Then you SHOULDNT virtually stop on the slip road. That would mean when a gap appears you would be attempting to join traffic at 10mph say, and everyone else at 70mph +, and that is as you say not a good thing. potentially catastrophic for many I’d say.dougcollins wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:04 pmYes, but what the knobheads who stay in lane one, at the same speed, never giving you a chance to get in? That's just as dangerous.
If you end up having to virtually stop on the slip road that's not a good thing.
You should carry on at a decent speed along the hard shoulder until you can safely join the traffic.
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
Moving over to the second lane is not always an option.
Leaving at J9 on the M65 for instance - if you move out here
you'll struggle to get back in to the 1st lane in time to exit the
motorway,
The signing at this junction is awful, it can't be seen until you've gone under
the bridge, by which time its a little late and people pull in and out of the
1st lane like crazy.
Leaving at J9 on the M65 for instance - if you move out here
you'll struggle to get back in to the 1st lane in time to exit the
motorway,
The signing at this junction is awful, it can't be seen until you've gone under
the bridge, by which time its a little late and people pull in and out of the
1st lane like crazy.
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
Look mum!!
Everybody's out of step apart from our Stan!
Everybody's out of step apart from our Stan!
Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
The morons slowing down before leaving the motorway, really annoy me. Its dangerous and also causes everyone else to have to slow down. The junction into Nelson/Barrowford is really bad for it.
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
Said this for ages about this junction, the number of drivers who suddenly pull into the 2nd lane at the last moment is amazing.Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 8:20 amMoving over to the second lane is not always an option.
Leaving at J9 on the M65 for instance - if you move out here
you'll struggle to get back in to the 1st lane in time to exit the
motorway,
The signing at this junction is awful, it can't be seen until you've gone under
the bridge, by which time its a little late and people pull in and out of the
1st lane like crazy.
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
GREEN- entry & exits for slip roadsTricky Trevor wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:49 pmQuiz questions.
How many cats eyes colours are there on a motorway, what are the colours and what do they signify?
RED- separates Lane 1 from the hard shoulder
WHITE- in between lanes.
AMBER- on the right separate far right lane from the central reservation
What’s the prize for this quiz??
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
The signage on most motorways is awful, with trees and bushes covering up many signs, or at least a half of a sign. Councils should be made to clip em back, or Highways Agency, or anyone!! This country is on its arse.Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 8:20 amMoving over to the second lane is not always an option.
Leaving at J9 on the M65 for instance - if you move out here
you'll struggle to get back in to the 1st lane in time to exit the
motorway,
The signing at this junction is awful, it can't be seen until you've gone under
the bridge, by which time its a little late and people pull in and out of the
1st lane like crazy.
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Re: Rule 259 of The Highway Code
Birds nesting. Trees/bushes get trimmed once that’s done.
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