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About Time

August 13, 2017 Longrider 12

Learner drivers using motorways. In my driving instructor days, I offered post test motorway lessons. Not many took me up on it, having divested themselves […]

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163

May 11, 2017 Longrider 21

Rule 163 of the Highway Code. Prompted by this discussion. The question being this: There is a similar thing with scooter riders on L plates, […]

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No

April 17, 2017 Longrider 22

Should older drivers be tested? I accept that in some cases, people lose their abilities as they grow older. However, if we are going down […]

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It Is Your Fault

December 16, 2016 Longrider 10

The cyclist that was knocked over by Chris Grayling is complaining that people might think it was his fault. Liu said he was in shock […]

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Absolutely Not

October 14, 2016 Longrider 5

Special rules for electric cars. Electric cars could be given priority at traffic lights and exempted from one-way systems, under new proposals. The government’s planned […]

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It’s A Train

March 6, 2016 Longrider 14

Driverless lorries on the M6. A stretch of the M6 near Carlisle has been earmarked as a potential test route for the automated juggernauts, which […]

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That’ll Be A First

September 22, 2015 Longrider 5

The Department for Transport said “common sense decisions” were needed. I await this with interest, if not bated breath. Anyone who has endured the misery […]

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That Was the Week

June 28, 2015 Longrider 13

Blogging has been light of late. This is because work has kept me so busy, I’ve had neither time nor inclination. After spending seven hours […]

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The GNI

March 22, 2015 Longrider 10

We’ve all had them, everyone who has ever taught driving or riding will recognise the GNI – the God never intendeds. The people, who, so […]