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The left lane on a motorway is for the virtuous and the good. That’s why I love it | Adrian Chiles

How many times do the rest of you need to be told? The middle lane is only for overtaking

“Don’t hog the middle lane,” beseeched motorway signs all over the UK last weekend, at least on the sections of the M1, M42, M5 and M40 I had the pleasure of using.

Lane discipline is a particular thing for particular people. I’m most definitely one of those people. I’ll keep to the left-hand lane so assiduously that if it was a contest I’d undoubtedly be in contention for the title. Proceeding along a quiet motorway at a stately 70mph, I will move into the middle lane only to overtake, before neatly slotting back into the left-hand lane. For this is the lane of the worthy, the disciplined, the considerate. It is the lane of the good.

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist

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