We have a road that's two lanes both ways past the dog and cat home and along the front past all the car sales rooms at Seafield to the traffic lights where the old Portobello power station and outdoor pool used to be. It goes from a 30 to a 40 limit just as you approach the dog and cat home and is than 40 all the way along the front and out of town, ultimately becoming the main A1 south. You often get someone sitting in the outside at 30mph all the way along this stretch. I don't undertake as I'm never in that much of a hurry but many do. What many of these folk don't seem to know is that, when you get to the end where you can turn off left to go into Portobello town, the main "drag" actually continues on through the lights as two lanes before narrowing to one lane a few hundred yards later where there's a pedestrian crossing. So, typically you will get a great queue of vehicles in the outside lane - lights now being red - having piled up behind the numpty who was going at 30 in the 40 with maybe only a couple of cars in the inside lane. I, because I've not been "joining in" with the outside lane pushers, can then cruise up in the inside lane, undertaking maybe a dozen vehicles sometimes - which are stationary in the outside lane - so that I'm near the head of the queue again when we all move off on the green light. I don't get aggressive with anyone who wants to contest road space, although it's meant to be "merge in turn", letting the guy outside me go ahead if he/she wants too, and I'm often still ending up at least a half dozen cars ahead of the guys who were getting all hot and bothered in the outside lane all the way along the front!
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