We literally have this. We call it the “shoulder”.
Right? Around here, each side of a divided highway has two travel lanes marked. But they also have room for three full lanes and a narrow breakdown/emergency lane.
The extra space is intended for future construction. By repainting the lines and installing a temporary k-rail median, they can shift a travel lane across the normal median, close a lane, keep two travel lanes in each directions, and still preserve adequate (but narrowed) shoulders for emergency traffic.
Using a the shoulder for emergency vehicles is not as good, as they are usually smaller and they are the place where those with damaged vehicles should stop. This means you cannot go as fast on them as you can in the lane shown in the video.
I’d recommend going exactly the same speed on either, and it’s not particularly fast.
Going fast is kind of essential for emergency response vehicles.
Exactly. They have to split the red sea like this in countries like Germany because there is no shoulder. Even in the video you can see if they go off to the side they’re ending up in a ditch.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
And idiots try to drive on it to skip traffic.