M1 Car Share Lane

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Fri 7 Mar 2008 20:45
M1 Car Share Lane - Bromptonaut
Apparently the M1 car share lane from Luton towards London will never open as it can't be operated safely.

tinyurl.com/3xxamk (Link to London Standard Moddies discretion on clickability)

Edited by Bromptonaut on 07/03/2008 at 20:47

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Sat 8 Mar 2008 13:04
M1 Car Share Lane - Sofa Spud
Drat! I'll have to cancel my order for a Rolls-Royce Phantom and withdraw my advert for a chauffeur!!!!!!
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Sat 8 Mar 2008 14:20
M1 Car Share Lane - ianhadden
(I can't open link). I'm confused, they want to cut congestion, then go and shut a lane? Let's be honest, like the M4 bus lane, it would have been empty.
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Sat 8 Mar 2008 21:24
M1 Car Share Lane - AF
It was never designed to open. It was designed to get approval for the extra lane, which will be a waste of time anyway.

How could it ever have possibly worked? Do you have it as the inside lane (i.e. nearest the central reservation) or the outside lane.

If you chose the inner lane as the HOVL, then although the traffic will be running faster than the traffic jams in the other three lanes, it will still run at the speed of the slowest driver in the lane. Unfortunately this won't be the 80+ that some drivers want to do. So there would be the usual tailgating, flashing lights, and then dangerous undertaking via the traffic jams in the inner three lanes. And then when you get to the junction you want, you have to cut across three lanes of traffic jam to get off. Of course the drivers in the inner three lanes would be delighted to let the the 'queue jumpers' through.

If you chose the outside lane, you would have the slow moving inner thee lanes trying to cut across the faster moving HOVL to get off. You would need to have a queue of ambulances and fire engines stationed at every exit to deal with all the accidents.

And to top it all off, even assuming that you planned on policing it, how are you supposed to detect that a MPV with black glass in the rear, with a driver and no front seat passenger doesn't have a kid in a car seat in the back.

It was all a con to keep the 'greenies' happy until the building work got underway.

Edited by AF on 08/03/2008 at 21:26

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