I post this to prompt a discussion if anyone is interested to....
I suspect like many I drive at 50mph through roadworks (don't get me started, I live in Loughborough and have business in Leeds and London. Hellish), but otherwise I drive at the prevailing speed. I qualify this by saying I generally drive during business hours rather than weekends when the character of the traffic is very different.
Driving at the prevailing speed with other 'professional' drivers feels entirely safe, whereas driving through contraflow congests traffic far beyond safe stopping distances. Weight of traffic unavoidably generates this situation and at this point I also introduce the articulated lorry.
I enjoy driving. I don't listen to music, I don't pay any attention to my phone, but rather I enjoy the engagement of driving my car, whichever one it is, and so driving isn't something I do in the gaps when I'm concentrating on something else and yet contraflow is, to me at least, inherently dangerous.
I don't have an answer, but I do wonder whether the blunt instrument that is the enforced speed limit regardless of the prevailing situation is actually the problem rather than the solution.
Discuss?...