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Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨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).

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fizzle@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Because, those thread is full of people saying that in practice it never looks like this.

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- Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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