Why do car owners drive in the middle lane?

I totally agree with what your doing not causing any obstruction and at the correct speed...just wish sometimes my truck could go along faster 😀.

If you are talking about the M50 in dublin then im not surprised.

If you are in slow left lane and when near traffic junctions coming in from the left be prepared to be almost crashed into by some drivers.

That's why most stay in middle lane. Not saying its correct but It's safer.

100% agree with this. Merging traffic is to much of a pain to keep having to deal with when there are close junctions. Middle lane it is.

It may be theory and rules that say you should drive in the left lane except when overtaking. Experience soon tells most drivers that the middle lane is better for driving in.

I drive long distances on motorways in the UK fairly often. I dont know where people are getting this idea that they somehow are more disciplined on motorways than we are here. They use the middle lane exactly the same way we do in Ireland. They will stay in the middle lane just as often as we do.

I think left lane zealots may simply be inexperienced or simply lacking in confidence so they drive knuckle white style and stick ridgidly to the rotr without applying any context. They'd prefer to be continuously enraged by people joining a motorway and interrupting their steady progress rather than move over to L2 and facilitate a more smooth driving experience for all drivers.

Just to be clear I dont get enraged by mergers as Im either in the middle late to facilitate mergers or considerately either slowing down or speeding up in L1 to allow smooth merging. Or actually driving to the prevailing conditions rather that shaking a fist ot a rotr book. As for having to make 4 lane changes to overtake😂 not sure who is the muppet

If you are a regular M50 user Im sure you have spotted plenty enragees though, flashing lights and shaking fists etc

Dont worry I can count. If people are happy to do the dance, then plough on and cause unecessary mayhem so they can ride the high horse.

Given that many drivers will either dawdle onto the motorway at significantly less than the posted limit/speed of traffic already on the main carrageway, OR will shoot across the harch markings as soon as they can, then you'll absolutely be adjusting your speed to facilitate/react to them.

Then when they get onto the motorway proper they'll continue to dawdle along, forcing others to have to maneuver around them in response. If you're getting overtaken by trucks on a motorway you're doing it wrong IMO and should probably stick to the secondary routes.

Or as I do, just sit out in L3 at the limit-ish and leave them all to it.

I can tell you have probably never driven on the M50 when the traffic is bad, which is pretty much most of the time.

Its much easier just to stay in the middle lane and overtake in the right lane. Far too much merging and trucks going on the M50 for anyones comfort. You would actually know this if you drive on it tbh. Everyone else knows it.

What do you when traffic is pretty solid on L1 and L2?

Driving is about adapting to the conditions around you and making your driver and those around you as safe a possible. You should know this if you are an experienced driver. You will eventually learn this. If you dont learn this with driving experience im afraid there is no hope for you, so no point trying to teach you.

"facilitate a more smoother driving experience for all drivers me"

Fixed that post for ya.

tootling along in the middle lane does not facilitate a smoother experience for anyone other than the person in the middle lane. You clearly dont understand how roads are designed to be used.

You remove an entire lane (the inside one) by driving in the middle, congratulations.

Gee, can anyone think of a reason why lane 2 would be pretty solid?

Take your time...

I quite enjoy meandering over and back across the M50 when traffic light and I have nothing better to be doing and I don't mind unproductively wasting fuel. However no way I'm doing it when traffic is heavy. in the real world L2 is routinely occupied by traffic going under the speed limits so I will drive to the conditions and to the avoid the madness of floating all over the M50, Ill drive in L2 and overtake in L3.

However if in the real world people suddenly decided not in large number to dwell in L2, then I would drive in the theoretically optimum manner suggested by yourself. And I suppose if you were an eternal optimist, pigs might actually in this country

Such a superiority complex, must be an onerous responsibility to maintain

Sure they were designed to be used in a certain manner but guess what they are not being used that way. It's not up to me to police how people use motorways so I'll just adapt to the real world about me.

You seem to have a bit of a bee in your little bonnet about the dwelling issue. No interest in biting. If you want to lay off the games and ask a question, no bother

The problem is that the "motorway" designation isn't really suitable for certainly the central part of the M50 because of the number of exits in close proximity and the volume of traffic that in reality means that all lanes become driving lanes most of the day.

As such, you can't really apply the "keep left" rule because in reality it would cause even more chaos and problems if people were constantly shifting lanes as you suggest.

As I said, there are two types of drivers - those who slavishly follow the theory/rules and tell themselves they're in the right regardless of the negative impact they may actually be having, and those who read the road, the situation, and adapt their driving style (including speed and positioning) accordingly.

Post makes absolutely no sense but not worth the childish name calling/squabbling. Carry on sir and so will I

Yet you suggest that I should sit in L1 and continuously meander left/right across a busy motorway so that I can hold the higher moral ground and ridgly comply with the rotr even though doing so puts myself and other road users at an increased risk of being in an accident.

Youd be better off geting some markers, drawing up a keep left placard and standing on an M50 overpass.

As for the unhealthy obsession with my fuel usage quip, the least of all my concerns, whatever...if it makes you happy I agree its a bloody stretch as its of absolutely no significance to how I drive on the M50

You wouldnt have to continuously do it if there werent other MLMs sitting in lane 2.

Its got nothing to do with moral high ground, its about making the motorway work they way it was designed, make it faster to drive on and remove phantom tailbacks.

If you cant drive on a motorway safely then thats your problem and no one elses.

At last, someone who is actually using their driving experience to drive. Some people if they were ever on the M50 probably never looked out the window of the car past the pages of their rule book to see what actually happening on the road.