> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 14:36 SelfishSeahorse <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I wasn't aware that it is allowed to cross a single solid line in the >> USA. Hence forget the overtaking:lanes:<forward/backward>=* tags in >> the example in my last message.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 3:48 PM Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's a recentish (late 90s/early 2000s) update to the MUTCD, before that you > would be correct (and usually as a stopgap between striping, places where > this is still the case is highlighted by signage, but this is getting to be > rare as most plsces have had long enough to require a repaint if not a repave > since then). The states have had considerable leeway in how they mark their own highways (the Federal government has control only on the highways that it funds). New York has used a single solid white line to mean 'lane crossing discouraged but not prohibited' for the 45 years that I've been driving here. Prohibited lane crossings have, for at least that long, been set off by double lines or by partial-barrier lines with the solid line toward the lane that must not be departed from. I seem to recall that the meaning of a single solid yellow line has varied from 'crossing discouraged', to 'crossing forbidden but left turns permitted', to 'crossing prohibited'. The current drivers' manual states that they have the same regulatory effect as a double yellow line. (Left turns across a double yellow are permitted only when they can be accomplished without impeding traffic in either direction and only into private driveways, entrances and alleys.) The only single yellow center lines I've seen in the last couple of decades have been on private roads, where they mean, 'the owner was too cheap to shell out for enough paint for standard markings.' _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
