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What should you do when you want to join a motorway where traffic is flowing freely?

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Keep to a low speed until you see a gap on the motorway

Build up your speed on the slip road before joining the motorway

Stop at the start of the slip road and move off when you see a gap

Use the hard shoulder, if necessary, to build up speed

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Build up your speed on the slip road before joining the motorwayThis was the right answer

Normally, you should avoid having to stop before joining a motorway. Use the slip road to build up your speed so that you can emerge safely. If it's extremely busy, there may be rare occasions when you have to stop and then filter into the traffic. This is most likely to happen where traffic is queuing; for example, at roadworks.

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Rule 259Highway Code rule · Build a suitable speed on the slip road while giving priority to traffic already on the motorway; the hard shoulder is not an acceleration lane.

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