What would you expect to find at a contraflow system on the motorway?

Why that is the answer

At a contraflow system, traffic travels in opposite directions on the same carriageway, often separated only by cones or temporary barriers. You must expect reduced speed limits because lanes are usually narrower and you are travelling closer to oncoming traffic and roadworks. Traffic lights and road humps are never used on motorways, and lanes are narrowed rather than widened. The Highway Code requires you to reduce your speed and obey all temporary signs.

How this comes up in the real test

Questions from motorway rules appear throughout the 50-question multiple-choice section, and the wording changes between versions. Learn the rule rather than the sentence: the DVSA can ask the same point from the opposite direction, and a memorised answer falls over the moment the phrasing moves.

The pass mark is 43 out of 50, so seven wrong answers is your entire margin. If a whole category is shaky, run the topic practice below until you are getting every question right for the right reason, then go back to full mocks under the clock.

More motorway rules questions

• Before making a journey on the motorway it is important to check your vehicle fully. Why is this?
• Following a breakdown on the hard shoulder, how should you rejoin the motorway?
• How do smart motorways avoid traffic clustering?
• How should you deal with traffic already on the motorway when joining from a slip road?
• In England and Wales, traffic officers work on motorways as well as some secondary routes. What powers do they have?
• On a motorway, how are the lanes to be used?