We have an uninterrupted emergency lane.
We give our emergency traffic both the left and the right shoulder to get where they need to go. You give them one lane in the middle; we give them two lanes on the sides.
The left shoulder is an uninterrupted lane. The right shoulder is our breakdown lane.
fizzle@quokk.au 12 hours ago
loads of commenters in this thread are saying that when cars part it doesn’t form “an uninterrupted lane” because inevitably there are obstacles, like people who don’t do it, or don’t leave enough room, or what have you.
shoulders aren’t really littered with broken down cars.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 5 hours ago
Shoulders are still for emergency stops even when the traffic is standing & ppl might leave their vehicles.
The middle of the road is more traveled & is on average cleaner of debris that could eg damage a tyre. Also less chances of ppl walking there.
It’s just that someone improved on a working shoulder system with a statistically a bit better one (that works even in cases where there is no shoulder). And it didn’t cost much (basically just marketing to get ppl to understand it).
fizzle@quokk.au 4 hours ago
Because, those thread is full of people saying that in practice it never looks like this.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 21 minutes ago
I always see this tho, and I’m not even from Germany.
It might not be that perfectly straight, but I can clearly see it as a better practice that the 10+ years ago (afaik the data shows that too).
This isn’t just for standing traffic, it’s for rush hours too.