> More interestingly is that Highways England has now recognised you cannot share space safely between vehicles with very different speed profiles. On limited

> More interestingly is that Highways England has now recognised you cannot share space safely between vehicles with very different speed profiles. On limited access highways (motorways), trucks (lorries) can share space with cars that are going quite a bit faster (70 mph vs 40 mph) when going up steeper grades. This is typically accomplished by providing an extra lane of travel for the slower vehicles to use such that faster vehicles can easily overtake them. One major problem that cyclists have when riding on roads with motor vehicles is that there is a belief that it's okay to share a lane with a cyclist while overtaking them. This reduces the separation between the cyclist and the overtaking vehicle and increases the chance for a collision. As far as I know, this doesn't seem to be the case when overtaking any other type of vehicle.