Sir, – The recent correspondence (Letters, March 25th) concerning the use or non-use of the inside lane on Irish motorways prompts me to also wonder about the etiquette surrounding the use of the hard shoulder on smaller N (national) roads.
Many times I have been travelling on an N road when I have felt an invisible, urgent obligation, emanating from a vehicle suddenly looming up behind me, to shift over on two wheels into the adjacent hard shoulder to let the fellow push on through, his hazard lights flashing as some kind of thank-you message.
The point is that, in my experience, Irish drivers seem incapable of simply overtaking me on the outside lane. Them wanting to pass, it would seem, is always my problem. – Yours, etc,
ANTHONY MOONEY
RM Block
Hove,
England.
