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safety and congestion and harmony between HGVs and cars on our motorways?
I would like to suggest that the answer is to upgrade motorways and bypass to four lanes each way.
The nearside two lanes could be reserved soley for HGVs, or maybe all conunercials and coaches, with the offside two lanes solely for cars, caravans and light vans.
HG Vs could then safely overtake slow moving cars on the inside and would no longer become frustrated by the car driver who insists on travelling in the middle lane of our threelane system at about 40-50mph (64-80Iun/h), thereby blocking all the HGVs behind him.
We need an awareness campaign to prevent this as it is quite common and causes bad reactions like tail-gating.
On a larger-scale motorway such as my four-lane system there could be road markings half a mile (0.8km) each side of each interchange, to indicate that car drivers may use the nearside two lanes to join and leave the motorway.
John Legg-Bagg, Miles Stone, Eastleigh, Hampshire.