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Interesting (no, really!) programme about the M6 motorway!
James - 10/9/14 at 09:56 AM

I really enjoyed this....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04hg23s/the-motorway-life-in-the-fast-lane-1-weight-of-traffic


Cheers,
James

Alfa145 - 10/9/14 at 10:53 AM

Was a very interesting program. I was surprised by how dangerous those HGVs were being cutting back in as they were trying to close the road. Perhaps the police should be looking to take action against that type of dangerous driving.

theprisioner - 10/9/14 at 06:09 PM

Very good film, part of a series, must watch the next one!

Smoking Frog - 10/9/14 at 06:24 PM

Worth watching thanks for the link. I got the feeling that the women breaking down where they was no hard shoulder was staged.

coozer - 11/9/14 at 01:34 PM

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Originally posted by Alfa145
Was a very interesting program. I was surprised by how dangerous those HGVs were being cutting back in as they were trying to close the road. Perhaps the police should be looking to take action against that type of dangerous driving.


Yeah, nice bit of editing there to target them, maybe some real time footage of what actually goes on should be shown....

02GF74 - 11/9/14 at 08:15 PM

I am looking forward to the sequel: M7 - wtf is it?

Alfa145 - 12/9/14 at 07:22 AM

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Originally posted by coozer
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Originally posted by Alfa145
Was a very interesting program. I was surprised by how dangerous those HGVs were being cutting back in as they were trying to close the road. Perhaps the police should be looking to take action against that type of dangerous driving.


Yeah, nice bit of editing there to target them, maybe some real time footage of what actually goes on should be shown....


If you look at the speed the workers truck was moving there wasn't a huge amount of editing. At that time of night there is a high proportion of HGVs on the road anyway. Even if it was edited to show more doing it in a shorter space of time, they can't edit it to make it look like it happened when it didn't. Bottom line is all those HGVs were making dangerous moves, crossing solid white lines, no amount of editing can fake that, unless you're implying they CGI'd it all?

woodster - 12/9/14 at 09:36 AM

i didn't see it but the bottles of wee and plastic bags of poop were talked about by those at work that did

owelly - 12/9/14 at 09:56 AM

Ah yes: "Driver Tizer"....

Alfa145 - 12/9/14 at 12:59 PM

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Originally posted by coozer
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Originally posted by Alfa145
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Originally posted by coozer
quote:
Originally posted by Alfa145
Was a very interesting program. I was surprised by how dangerous those HGVs were being cutting back in as they were trying to close the road. Perhaps the police should be looking to take action against that type of dangerous driving.


Yeah, nice bit of editing there to target them, maybe some real time footage of what actually goes on should be shown....


If you look at the speed the workers truck was moving there wasn't a huge amount of editing. At that time of night there is a high proportion of HGVs on the road anyway. Even if it was edited to show more doing it in a shorter space of time, they can't edit it to make it look like it happened when it didn't. Bottom line is all those HGVs were making dangerous moves, crossing solid white lines, no amount of editing can fake that, unless you're implying they CGI'd it all?


In real life when you get to that point, the workers stop and leave the gap for a while... And then wave you through...

If, they want to stop that why not use the highways agency or police like the clip earlier to hold the traffic back?

So its dangerous for a lorry travelling at 45 mph to cross white lines but its OK for cars going over 80?

Like I said, that bit was put together purely to target the drivers...


As I've not been in that situation in real life I can't say if they leave a gap for a while or not, I can only comment on what I saw on that program and it seemed fairly convincing that those lorries were contravening the law and crossing a solid white line. I got 3 points for crossing a solid white line several years ago when reported by an off duty officer, so why should those drivers not be treated the same? I was told if I had been seen by an on duty officer I could have been charged with dangerous driving.

Nowhere did I say it's ok for cars to do anything at 80mph, not sure what your point is there. Anyone crossing that solid white line is in the wrong, car, lorry, motorbike. Speed is irrelevant on that point. The road is closed and there are signs all the way up the motorway telling drivers that, not like it's a surprise to them.

Perhaps it has been edited, most TV is. But at that time of night not as many cars as Lorrys would be on the road so it's reasonable to assume that's why every vehicle shown crossing the solid white line was a lorry in the time frame it took to close the Motorway.

Furyous - 12/9/14 at 10:22 PM

The guys complaining about the noise got me. If you want peace and quiet maybe... don't live next to a motorway?