Timeline for Riding on the shoulder of a road with a "do not drive on shoulder" sign
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| Mar 14, 2022 at 22:22 | comment | added | mkennedy | In southern California, emergency vehicles tend to use the shoulder and cars move as far into the lane as they can to allow them to pass if it's narrow. | |
| Mar 14, 2022 at 19:41 | comment | added | Michael | The fact it is on a downhill slope means my bike speeds are likely to be extra high too... :-D | |
| Mar 14, 2022 at 18:29 | comment | added | FreeMan | @FluidCode here in the States, shoulders are only used by emergency vehicles when the road is totally blocked by other traffic and they have no other option. When flashing lights appear behind you, you, the non-emergency vehicle, are supposed to pull as far onto to the shoulder as possible (even putting wheels off into gravel/grass) as possible to give the emergency vehicle the right-of-way on the road. If someone is going to get stuck in mud/snow/ditch at the side of the road, better Joe Average than the ambulance. | |
| Mar 13, 2022 at 22:51 | comment | added | MaplePanda | @FluidCode To my eyes, the shoulder appears to be too narrow to drive on. You’d either be driving with two wheels on the grass, or two wheels in the travel lane. Also, I’m not sure what country you come from, but in my native Canada at least, emergency vehicles stick to the travel lanes. I’d assume it’s the same in the US (and have seen that when I cross the border). | |
| Mar 13, 2022 at 10:20 | comment | added | FluidCode | Are you sure that the shoulder surface is the issue? In my country that shoulder would be used as emergency lane reserved for emergency and police vehicles. | |
| Mar 13, 2022 at 6:57 | history | edited | MaplePanda | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
elaborated.
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| Mar 13, 2022 at 2:11 | history | answered | MaplePanda | CC BY-SA 4.0 |