Getting on the motorway at Junction 21 today to go northbound at 7am so when it is starting to get busy.
Car infront of me going 30 at the halfway point on the slip road. Think fair enough, traffic at this time is usually held up by someone in front to start with which results in all traffic going slow, usually start to speed up when the motorway becomes visible so any lorries or cars you will be joining can be seen.
Look over to the lane that we will be joining, no traffic, check my mirror to check further down the motorway, no cars, all good, car in front should be speeding up now, expect at least 50 by the time we join, not ideal speeds for joining but Junction 21 seems to be hell for getting up to 70 when stuck behind some cars.
30mph.
30MPH this car in front was going when we got the start of where we can join the motorway.
THEN THEY START TO SLIGHTLY SLOW DOWN UNTIL THEY ARE GETTING RIGHT TO THE END OF THE SLIP ROAD!
Literally zero cars or lorries in the joining lane, clear as can be but this car in front does not want to join any quicker then a snail pace.
End up slamming on the horn to tell them to get a move on as I thought they were going to stop, luckily at the last second they realise that there is more than 3 gears and merges on the motorway at 40.
Wasnt too sure if I should have just merged on and left them to there own mess ups, but I didnt want to merge, go to overtake this slowpoke who would then just either turn into me, or stop on the slip road and create a hazard.
Honestly if you arent confident joining a motorway you need to take lessons or get practice when it is quiet. I'd understand if traffic in front was going 30 and he was then unsure about joining at that speed and hesitent with motorway traffic overtaking at 70, but it was as clear as you could want it to be joining at that time at that junction.
I do have some sympathy as, granted I havent done loads of motorway driving on different junctions so there might be worse, junction 21 northbound does seem to be quite a difficult junction to get up to full speed on, and is difficult to sometimes judge traffic with the short amount of time you have at rush hour if you do get up to speed. But in a situation like above it is as easy as can be and no excuse for joining at that speed.
Honestly bit of a rant, anyone else got any junction 21 stories or am I by myself on my dislike for that junction