Dipper_Dave:
Big Jase:
I was making a general view point. Do you honestly feel the need to make comment on me and my diversity?
Wow thats a bit of a stretch, do you think your diversity makes any diffference in this environment. I do apologise if thats how you perceived my comments. I can assure you there was no malice intended and if your offended well thats just a bonus. 
I do notice in your posts you seem to come across as very easily offended though and also slightly too over protective of flaws in the HA matrix sign system almost to the point of its every body elses fault if somothing goes wrong.
Is rule 269 a new addition, will it help raise awareness for the large majority that haven’t picked up a highway code since they passed their test.
The general cop out of ‘Its in the highway code so everyone must know about it’ is ridiculous at best.
The managed motorway system although a sytem I totally agree with needs a bit more publicity on how it works. Maybe your own matrix signs when not in use could help with that. Better than nonsense about littering. Whats next major supermarkets buying advertising time on these signs.
I always put my all into whatever I do, if I see or hear of something that is wrong where I work, I do my upmost to put it right. I agree that there are many faults with our systems, there’s no denying that but working out on the road and seeing the scant disregard of anything we put up on our signs and signals or anything that I expect or the law expects people to do but don’t that puts me, my colleague and everyone else at risk is just downright disgraceful. I’m sure you have done a million miles in your driving career and seen the odd crash as you pass, you may have even stopped to help, usually I hear the pink and fluffy brigade “Don’t worry its just a bit of metal” but then when I/We arrive at jobs, it isn’t always like that. I don’t need to go into details, I’m sure you know all about it but you get the “I’ve been driving for 50 years and never had an accident” when they caused a 5 car pileup or the people that slam into debris at 80 as they thought they’d drive along until they see something after ignoring the signs.
It appears to me that so many of you probably in your 40’s or 50’s having had the Police leave the signs on for days after the event have now given up on them. This is unfair and attitudes need to change as since 2004 the HA have had control over them. No one in my room would put signs on for fun, nor would they put anything stupid up just to wind you up. We ask for the signs to turned off when we leave and we watch them go off. Just because you see signs but see nothing, it doesn’t mean that there wasn’t something there or its a round the corner.
I/We will never win really so I don’t know why I waste my time trying to educate or help explain things. I don’t really think your comment is fair about the Highway Code either. It isn’t a new thing, it is in the 2007 revised edition so it’s been about for a good 7 years now. To be honest, regardless of whether you can part with £1.98 to buy one, ignorance is no defence and it really isn’t too difficult to see “CONGESTION USE HARD SHOULDER” and instantly understand there is congestion and i can use the hard shoulder. I drive in lots of different countries and I manage to learn the road signs before I go so I don’t have issue, I suppose you feel its acceptable to drive in this country without understanding a thing about the roads you are driving on.
I would say with a high level of confidence that in a journey, a car driver will have a defective light, low tyre pressures, use their phone, go over an advanced stop line, stop in a yellow box, not use a bus lane when it is not in operation, not indicate when turning right at a roundabout and give a bit of verbal to someone all in one journey, all either illegal or showing a poor driving standard but still, it they haven’t read the Highway Code recently, its all good.
