• rcbrk
    12·
    1 year ago

    All around Vic, too. They generally don’t even put in a bike lane, just say “use the emergency lane”. Here’s a sequence of images for one on the freeway in to Melbourne from Ballarat, starting from the onramp:

    Onramp with sign declaring bicycles permitted on this freeway

    Further along the onramp, sign saying to form 1 lane

    also on the onramp, yellow diamond sign with bicycle symbol

    sign beside the now-merging lane directing cyclists to ride on the shoulder

    sign at the end of the merge, 110 speed limit.

    This whole stretch of freeway is 110 km/h (70mph). There are skid marks where vehicles have bailed out of a failing 110km/h merge.

    The shoulder is the emergency lane. It’s where drivers pull over into if there’s an unavoidable hazard ahead or their brakes are failing or something.

    • rcbrk
      19·
      1 year ago

      There used to be a sign “helping” cyclists already on the freeway by telling them “cross here with care”:

      sign directing cyclists on the freeway to cross the merging lane at a slightly safer location

      But it was obliterated by a vehicle:

      same sign, obliterated by a vehicle

      • WetBeardHairs
        2·
        1 year ago

        I was looking to find the mangled remains of a cycle embedded in the turf just off the side of one of those images.