Classics to be banned from motorways?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by V.R.M., Sep 21, 2018.

  1. Flakey

    Flakey Supporter

    This planet has had at least 8 ice ages with peaks in between of extreme temperatures long before humans inhabited it and it will continue to do so after it’s wiped itself clean of us!
     
  2. Flakey

    Flakey Supporter

    7 times more likely to crash on a single carriageway road than a motorway so good luck !
     
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  3. Faust

    Faust Supporter

    Was it the final straw coming back from Cornwall BF.:eek:
     
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  4. Faust

    Faust Supporter

    I really like driving on motorways i just flash the trucks in when overtaking me ...gives me something to do .Does it really make a lot of difference on journey time if you are doing 60 instead of 70 .

    They are most likely in the future to limit speeds of 50 on all roads ...so it will be more of a seat comfort issue in the future .
     
  5. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    But that shouldn’t stop us keeping it clean while we’re here and using our minds to learn to live here in a eco friendly way. As redoxide says, it’s greed and big corporations that are the ones doing most damage. We need to make them think hard about what’s acceptable and what we as a consumer will accept!

    I watched ice age. Good film, but that nut scene was totally unbelievable.
     
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  6. Yeah we all need nuts don't we :thinking:
     
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  7. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    At your service!
     
  8. Ah I shall try and remember those routes, thanks
     
  9. If you have an Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 map, you can see which roads are blue (motorway) and which green or red (A roads).

    If you use Google, tick the "Avoid Highways" option to find a route without any motorway driving. It finds a valid non-motorway route from Chelmsford to Dartford, for example, with this option ticked.

    Allowing motorways:
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    and with "Avoid Highways":

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  10. Don’t forget the stoneage when we just put our feet thru the floor and ran :thumbsup:
     
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  11. redoxide

    redoxide Guest

    Volcanos are still the largest environmental polluters, Humans are even below that of COMPOSTING, but where we let ourself down is the way we waste stuff, demand stuff, replace stuff well before its end of life, .. Im no green advocate but im always shocked now when I see the ratio of recyclable stuff in the recycle bin easy 4:1 so we produce waste at a phenomenal rate, all that waste is produced to satisfy our demand for convenience, which just gets bigger the easier its made for us.. we don't all drive cars but we are all producers of waste.. my view is that they are looking in the wrong place to clean things up..
     
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  12. next thing we ll have to put a dpf in our underpants and knickers to cut down on fart pollution
     
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  13. mikedjames

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    Thats for cattle. Seriously they are trying to find cattle feed that produces less methane, or bacteria that cattle can use in digestion that produce less methane, as they are noticeable greenhouse gas producers.
     
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  14. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    I tried the A roads thing going up to Techenders, more because the M1 is boring and I was running in the bus engine. I have a nice route from the Sainsburys at Kidlington where I pull off the A34 via Banbury then hit the Fosse Way and roll up to Eddies, just the bit crossing the A5 and missing second gear would have been more scary if there was anybody coming..

    However I suspect like the motorway toll road fiasco - I thought the A1 upgrade was meant to be a toll road, that things will not be quite as aspired to.

    I especially liked the report from somebody in Australia where they use a lot of coal to produce electricity, that the latest all electric Audi effectively produces more CO2 per annum than the evil Audi diesel that you can buy for half the price. Not quite the same story here in the UK, but just wait until your eye watering electricity bills for 100 kilowatt hours a night , 5 days a week roll in, which will have Excise Duty added as more than 25% of cars are electric, so the electricity will basically cost double per unit compared with whatever it costs to light a bulb.
     
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  15. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Source validity and reasoning on the experiment would be the thing I’d want to know there!

    Not saying it’s wrong, but why base it on coal powered?
     
  16. In fact millions of large-capacity and fast-charging electric car batteries spread out across the country is the ideal energy storage system for distributed intermittent renewable generators like wind and solar. Lots of interesting news, information and discussion available on YouTube thanks to Robert Llewellyn (Kryten from Red Dwarf, Scrap Heap Challenge, etc.) and his Fully Charged Show - the latest episode even includes cows!

    This is a really fun classic VW Beetle episode:

    I have a plan to do the same to Betty at some point: silly amounts of power and torque!
     
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  17. Pudelwagen

    Pudelwagen Supporter

    I can't understand why they want to ban classics from motorways. I find Classic FM very calming when stuck in long tailbacks!
     
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  18. All this electricery can go wrong you know just wait till the magnetic pole shifts and a world of pain will come.
     
  19. That's a great bit of info. Thank you for taking the trouble to explain. Had always assumed Dartford bridge/tunnel was on the M25, so I must keep to dual carriage speed limits on the approach roads! LOL
     
  20. Dual carriageway speed limit is 70mph, same as a motorway... unless your unladen weight is over 3 tonnes (not sure the suspension is rated for that)? https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits
     
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