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)
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I’m pretty sure that it’s a local thing. Not that locals generally know the correct procedure anyway.
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.
So the question is have you seen it outside Tasmania?
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).
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.
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.
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..
Timc is right and yes, I’ve seen that lots. Except that in Canberra the grass is more of a brown dead colour
-c