Judging from the markings, that is a turn lane shared by both directions. You cannot legally use it to pass a car in the main driving lane, you can only use it to make a left turn. Lanes of this type are nicknamed "suicide lanes", because of the possibility that vehicles going in opposite directions may try to use it simultaneously, resulting in a head-on collision.
-- John F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge com On Monday, June 19, 2017 at 6:18 AM Horea Meleg <horea.me...@telenav.com> wrote: Hello all, Me and my Telenav colleagues are editing lane numbers in Detroit area. We found some cases that looks like this (42.43651692568901, -83.51102781049859): [cid:image001.jpg@01D2E906.C4A4DCA0] Our question is: what is the central lane used for and how do we map it? Should we count it as a separate lane and have 3 lanes in this case (one for each direction and one for both directions) [cid:image002.png@01D2E906.C4A4DCA0] or have only 2, one for each direction? [cid:image003.png@01D2E906.C4A4DCA0] Thank you, Horea Meleg
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