Riding on the hard shoulder

[Bmblbzzz]

Yes, you have to leave the road to avoid the motorway. There are others like that but I can't think where right now.

The A14 transitions into the M11 here and again "Prohibited Traffic" must leave at the next exit.

That sign must be rather unusual. When motorways first came into existence there were very large signs regarding who/what could use motorways.

I think those signs were replaced by the white on blue parallel-lines-with-bridge motorway sign, which indicates the beginning of motorway regulations.

[Username]

Motorways have a traffic free lane. Dual carriageways do not. So why are cyclists not allowed on motorways but are still allowed on duals? Cyclists are surely that bit safer on the traffic free hard shoulder of a motorway than on the side of a dual carriageway.

[tykeboy2003]

Motorways have a traffic free lane. Dual carriageways do not. So why are cyclists not allowed on motorways but are still allowed on duals? Cyclists are surely that bit safer on the traffic free hard shoulder of a motorway than on the side of a dual carriageway.

That would have been true at one time, but now lots of sections of hard shoulder are used as a 4th lane (long sections of the M1 are now) and in many places they are used as filter lanes for exits.

Never mind, when the fuel runs out and only the super rich can afford an electric car with sufficient range to actually go somewhere, we will have one of the best networks of cycle routes in the world.