On 19/08/2019 18:53, NY wrote:
"polygonum_on_google" wrote in message
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On Monday, 19 August 2019 18:15:09 UTC+1, Jim GM4DHJ ...Â* wrote:
does anybody think that you should slow down on the inside lane of the
motorway before joining the off ramp?....if you do you are most
annoying....you should only slow down in the deceleration slip lane
and not
before....

It rather depends on what the traffic ahead is doing. Although these
days I rarely need to drive in a motorway, when I do, I often see
traffic stationary (or very slow) even on the carriageway simply
because the junction is clogged up. 'twould be folly not to slow down...


I think Jim was talking about those people on a freely-running motorway
with an empty slip road, who think that they need to brake to 40 in Lane
1 before moving onto the slip road. On a motorway with an *uphill*
sliproad, I usually come off the power as I am leaving Lane 1 and let
gravity slow me down, before starting to brake as I get closer to the
roundabout. On a *downhill* slip road, where gravity works against you,
I start to brake as I come off Lane 1.

That's assuming there is no other traffic on the slip road which may
mean having to slow down earlier or brake more.

We are spoiled in the UK with our relatively long slip roads. I'm sure
many of us have found ourselves having to brake quite hard on a
continental slip-road.