Lane
A lane is a part of a highway that can be used by one line of vehicles. Most roads have two or more lanes, with at least one lane for traffic going each way. In Great Britain a narrow rural road is called a lane.[1]
Some roads have a center lane to make it easier for cars and trucks to turn. There can also be turn lanes on the outer part of the road. If roads have more than one lane going in one direction, cars in the outer lanes usually go faster than cars in the inner lanes. Highways may also have express lanes that can only be used for certain types of vehicles, like those carrying two or more people. Lanes in most jurisdictions have rules for minimum and maximum lane widths. In the United States the Federal Highway Administration has recommended lane widths for US highways and interstates.[2]
Lane Media
Thru lanes indicated by arrows on California CR G4 (Montague Expressway) in Silicon Valley
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Black center line on an Autobahn in Germany in the late 1930s
The Ontario Highway 401 in the Greater Toronto area, with 17 travel lanes in 6 separate carriageways visible in the midground
Special, wide two-lane road used at some stretches in Aura, Finland
Changing lanes, Gothenburg, Sweden
Transfer lanes, connecting surface collector lanes with through lanes between two tunnels
An unusual left-turn merging lane in Germany, explained with signage
The A38(M) Aston Expressway, showing tidal flow/reversible lanes controlled via overhead gantries, in Aston, Birmingham, England. This motorway has seven lanes, with the one lane always kept as a buffer in the center – in the morning peak time, there are 2 lanes leaving central Birmingham (northbound) and 4 lanes in (southbound).
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References
- ↑ "lane". Oxford Dictionaries/Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ↑ "Lane Width". Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
