rcbrk, 6 months ago (edited 6 months 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.
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.