[Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag
Philip Barnes
phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Fri Apr 20 14:20:56 BST 2012
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 12:33 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote:
> If an odd number, assume a center turn lane (e.g. lanes=5 means 2 forward,
> 2 backward, 1 center).
>
You cannot assume that, many 3 lane roads have a 'chicken' lane. Where
the centre lane is used for overtaking by traffic in either direction.
The presence of a solid and broken line together indicating that you
should give priority to traffic overtaking but travelling in the
opposite direction. But allows you to overtake otherwise.
Phil
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