... always dangerous. I don't see that as any different that people on here saying that 172 m.p.h. is not inherently dangerous. I'd rather have someone driving at 172 on an empty motorway than you pedaling erratically near pedestrians while drunk. What is up with you lot even wanting Firth around? I either ignore him or laff at him. Occasionally I laff with him if he posts something ...

...driving standards are monitored by two camera systems at all times. I am liable to random breath checks - the thought of which doesn't bother me in the least - and I consider that I have left behind my somewhat wayward habits from some 20 to 30 years ago. My cycling habits, before you bring them up, are based on a personal evaluation of road conditions, my safety and the safety ...

...My driving standards are monitored by two camera systems at all times. I am liable to random breath checks - the thought of which doesn't bother me in the least - and I consider that I have left behind my somewhat wayward habits from some 20 to 30 years ago. My cycling habits, before you bring them up, are based on a personal evaluation of road conditions, my safety and the safety of ...

...I am a shite driver. Your own post said as much. No it didn't. I said it was _easier_ on the lit motorway. In the same way that it's _easier_ to drive on an empty M40 through northern Oxfordshire at 6am on a Sunday morning than driving on the M8 through Glasgow at 6pm on a dark and wet winter's weekday...

... making their way home in winter. Not many, however, would see the point in lighting up a motorway in broad daylight. Yet that is exactly what has been happening on a one-mile stretch of the M40 after a set of sensors went wrong..." More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/...

... when making their way home in winter. Not many, however, would see the point in lighting up a motorway in broad daylight. Yet that is exactly what has been happening on a one-mile stretch of the M40 after a set of sensors went wrong..." More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news...

...to take your view that unlit motorways should be safer than lit motorways. A quick google of Hansard suggests it is: <http://www....>he has that lighting on motorways can reduce night-time accidents ... the provision of lighting on motorways can lead to a 30 ... are given in "Light on Motorway Accident Rates", an article published .... I just feel that unlit motorways are easier to drive on,...

In article <61on7rF209d2sU1@mid.individual.net>, Graculus says... It's only when you get to the Midlands that most of the motorways are lit. "Most"? I don't think so. Well as someone who drives down them A LOT, they are. To compensate for shite drivers like yourself who seem to have trouble driving in the dark. Thank you, Conor, for your completely ...

... Firth) wrote: Graculus <ReplaceWithMyMoniker@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: I'm sure there's a very good reason to do so, especially on very busy motorways, Lighting motorways reduces the accident rate at night. Proof? Why? Because I am interested to read the proof of something I thought was in fact the opposite -- Only some ghastly, ...

"PeterT" <peterthomas8899@googlemail.com> wrote Lighting motorways reduces the accident rate at night. Proof? It would seem to me to make sense that a busy motorway would have a lower accident rate if it was illuminated at night, although I don't have any proof for the assertion. I...