• @[email protected]
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      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.

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        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

        • @[email protected]
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          I was looking to find the mangled remains of a cycle embedded in the turf just off the side of one of those images.

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      Holy shit lmao

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      4PWQ2WR3+MQ here’s a plus code for ye (apparently Google’s open-source alternative coordinate thing and their solution to unaddressed areas)

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        took a lot of training and tests to qualify to drive on roads

        Those tests are stupidly easy

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            Point is having a drivers license does not mean very much about whether you are competent at driving.

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                Lol. Having a US driving license means you might be qualified to safely ride a tricycle on a training course.

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                  • @[email protected]
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                    Yo do understand there’s countries outside the US, right? 🤡