Hold your horses

Meanwhile, the UK policy on road signs is not quite so sensible. ‘The slip road off the M60 at Junction 8 prohibits pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles and cycles leaving the motorway,’ says Jerry Armitage at Halifax.
‘I assume that if your mode of transport is one of these, you have no choice but to stay on the motorway until the next junction. It causes me no end of trouble at Junction 7 queued up behind the Yorkshire-to-Sale stagecoach.’