GJD wrote:PeterE wrote:There are quite a lot of them around
When you say "them", you mean roads marked out as two lanes that would be easily wide enough for three or more? I didn't think that was a particularly abnormal phenomenon either.
Yes.
GJD wrote:Can't see what the problem is. It's a road. Drive along it. Don't crash into anything . I've no particular difficulty with the idea of three abreast. Four can be managed sometimes. I love a road where you can get on with things.
I don't see it as a problem for me personally, and indeed on occasions I have circumspectly overtaken "down the middle" on such roads. But road designers shouldn't really be creating ambiguity in markings in this way. If this kind of overtaking is not intended, then they shouldn't be so wide; if it is, then there should be some kind of three-lane layout, ideally this one.