Middle-lane hogging

Taffic on the M1 (linked from the BBC News Magazine)

Today I came across a BBC article Motorway middle-lane hoggers to face on-the-spot fines. It turns out that the proposed fines are not just about middle-lane hogging but about a number of frequently practiced, and arguably "minor" careless driving offences. Predictably though the reader comments mostly focused on the subject in the title. I was even moved to add my own contribution to the comments; something I rarely do.

I have just found another BBC article: Who, what, why: What's wrong with middle-lane hogging? which, in talking to a number of experts and pundits, aims to discover why middle-lane hogging is a bad thing. I think the article is generally reasonable but I don't think it managed to uncover all of the issues.

Getting the ball rolling

I didn't want to start this blog off with a bland "well here I am, starting a blog", and neither did I want to start off with something really controversial, so here are some photos I took recently in Bristol. Yes, I'm an amateur photographer with occasional ambition to sell work.

Four Bristol street scenes

Two from the Bristol 10K, 2013