On the contrary, a collision when overtaking is just as likely to be caused by insufficient speed. Overtaking is not illegal. No-one would drive 100 miles behind a lorry-load of mackerel at 30mph. Bu… (View Post)

Aha. We're discussing the A9. One of my special interests. The problem is not speed. In the absence of any other traffic you could drive from Perth to Inverness in 90 minutes in reasonable safet… (View Post)

Conceived by Labour, work started by the Coalition, continued by the Tories in the teeth of all common sense. Unfortunately there's no-one with clean hands left to stop it. My modest proposal is… (View Post)

If IKB had been in charge of HS2 it would be finished by now for half the projected cost. One or two potential snags lurking in the undergrowth, though. (View Post)

I expect many of us can trace our roots back to the railways - they were, after all, a major source of employment for a hundred years. My grandfather was a GWR trainee driver based in Shrewsbury in 1… (View Post)