Mark Carroll's Journal

Many motorways have three lanes in each direction. Once I passed my test and drove on a such a motorway for the first time, I realized that I had to learn more about lane usage, and be prepared to (consider) pulling into the third lane if a vehicle in front of me in the first lane indicates that it is about to pull out and overtake. Not a big deal, but not nothing.

Now, within ten miles or so of me, there are both a two-lane motorway and a three-lane dual-carriageway, so this distinction is not strictly relevant ...

When I lived in a city of a quarter of a million people that was nearly a hundred miles from a motorway it was suggested that the driving test should include motorway driving. The response was "if it also requires driving on a single track road with passing-places" ...