There was an official design of road in England when I was a child: three painted lanes. The middle lane could be used for overtaking by traffic going in eithe

There was an official design of road in England when I was a child: three painted lanes. The middle lane could be used for overtaking by traffic going in either direction. I hated when my dad would overtake using this lane. I could see from the way he was concentrating and pushing the car to its limit that it wasn't a comfortable manoeuvre, and it generally seemed rather pointless as we'd soon be stuck behind a line of vehicles that was too long to overtake. It looks like they've all been removed, even the tiny bits this page says still exist: https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=S3 https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=S3