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Originally Posted by Footie
If that worries you don’t try West Country roads. Roads here were most likely built along ancient cart ways and probably modernised in designed (at some point in the ancient past) to take 1950’s size cars and lorries. If you cycle here you must be prepared to have oversized cars, 4x4’s, lorries, tractors and buses pass within inches (not feet) of you at 30 mph to 70 mph - as a norm. Some even brush you – but you get used to it after a while.
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And not just the West Country, many of the Surrey lanes I use are exactly the same, sometimes with the odd point where I have to stop and lean into the hedge to get something past. Similarly, 60 mph seems to be the target speed of many motorists.
Even slightly wider lanes are often very narrowed by the tarmac edges being broken away by heavy vehicles and eroded into huge treacherous potholes.
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