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posted: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:37 | filed under: / blog/ life/ | permalink | Comments: 8
A question for my interstate readers: Has anyone seen the following lane structure outside of Tasmania?
(If anyone wants to guess what the correct procedure is in such a situation, you're also welcome to do that)
I'm pretty sure that it's a local thing. Not that locals generally know the correct procedure anyway.
Posted by Thomas Karpiniec at Sat Oct 25 14:37:52 2008
That's just a standard "2 lanes merges into 1", along with the associated Australia-wide unified road rule which states the vehicle behind must give way to the vehicle in front, no matter which lane either is in.
Posted by TimC at Sat Oct 25 14:47:41 2008
So the question is have you seen it outside Tasmania?
Posted by Chris Neugebauer at Sat Oct 25 14:51:05 2008
2 lanes merge into 1? Yeah, that's not uncommon to come across. As for what to do in such a situation, I'm not completely sure (I have not yet obtained a driving license).
Posted by Jackson at Sat Oct 25 15:57:45 2008
That looks like half of a section of Bass Highway a few tens of km west of Launceston. If so, real-life experience is that confusion does indeed run rampant amongst the participants.
Posted by Leo at Sat Oct 25 17:32:40 2008
There is a part of the M5 southbound in Sydney (north of the Campbelldown exit) that looks a lot like this. Consistently causes traffic problems.
Posted by Brad Hards at Sat Oct 25 18:50:41 2008
Yup, seen something similar in Melbourne on Ferntree Gully Road near the junction with Stud Road where 4 lanes merge down to 2. Standard zip merge..
Posted by Chris Samuel at Sun Oct 26 15:08:40 2008
Timc is right and yes, I've seen that lots. Except that in Canberra the grass is more of a brown dead colour :)
-c
Posted by Chris Smart at Mon Oct 27 09:20:30 2008