And next time you're out and about, you'll realise that most rural classified roads without a footway have single width solid white lines
The double width line used for hard shoulders doesn't have a particular significance beyond visibility. If the road isn't a clearway or a motorway, you can lawfully park on the hard shoulder.
Could you park here?!
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Re: Could you park here?!
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I had noticed that, I just assumed they were clearways. In future I'll remember I'm allowed to park unless there's double white lines in the centre. I doubt there's many places on such roads it would be sensible to park though.
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Re: Could you park here?!
Yeah, if you're on a rural road it's considerate to get off the carriageway if you can. Saves using parking lights!
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There are double white lines here, yet cars have always parked along there meaning you almost always have to straddle them. I've never seen tickets on them.
Re: Could you park here?!
Speaking of hard shoulders, what actually defines a hard shoulder? A road with a hard shoulder that isn't a motorway or a clearway, would you get in trouble for driving in it? I'd assume so but I'm not sure what on.AndyB wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:46 And next time you're out and about, you'll realise that most rural classified roads without a footway have single width solid white lines
The double width line used for hard shoulders doesn't have a particular significance beyond visibility. If the road isn't a clearway or a motorway, you can lawfully park on the hard shoulder.
I'm nobody special, just somebody who enjoys looking at and talking about infrastructure. Eager to learn as much as I can about the roads of the UK - please help me with this.
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Re: Could you park here?!
On an all-purpose road, a solid white line along the edge of the carriageway is simply an edge marker - some roads have their edge marker deliberately away from the kerb to narrow the lane as a form of traffic calming but AFAIK it's quite legal to straddle that line to allow vehicles to overtake more easily - and in the same way, to drive within that line if it's even wider.Britain wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 02:35Speaking of hard shoulders, what actually defines a hard shoulder? A road with a hard shoulder that isn't a motorway or a clearway, would you get in trouble for driving in it? I'd assume so but I'm not sure what on.AndyB wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:46 And next time you're out and about, you'll realise that most rural classified roads without a footway have single width solid white lines
The double width line used for hard shoulders doesn't have a particular significance beyond visibility. If the road isn't a clearway or a motorway, you can lawfully park on the hard shoulder.
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Re: Could you park here?!
I did query this situation at M1 J10, where the clearway ended before the roundabout: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.85402 ... 312!8i6656 This appears to have been later remedied: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.85402 ... 312!8i6656AndyB wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:57 For whatever reason, they cancel Clearway restrictions explicitly when a road becomes a motorway, which I agree seems pretty pointless, but they (together with the start of the restriction on the other carriageway) should be co-sited with the chopsticks, and at the end of the sliproads where they meet the B5061. If that's not what the TRO says, the TRO would seem pretty daft...
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