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Thursday March 31, 2005

Three into two won't go

On my way home I leave the M3 motorway and join the Bracknell road. Shortly after doing so there is a major junction patrolled by traffic lights. As you approach the junction an extra lane appears from the right. Now in the UK no tarmac is left unused, it is almost a criminal act to do so. So folks use it. The trouble is after you get over the lights the extra lane disapears in the length of two cars. So when the lights are against you what happens is a few people use that lane. Then the lights change. The first car if they get a move on will beat the car in the middle lane to the remaining tarmac after the lights. The second won't and of course there is the customary British scramble and tustle before the two vehicles merge. This pattern repeats itself until there are no more cars in the third lane. Meanwhile all the cars behind this are left wondering why when the lights are green they are going nowhere.

I just do not understand what purpose this lane is there for, except to invite trouble on our roads.

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