Normally yes. But just north of Atlanta we have a freeway called Georgia 400, and several miles of it are signed that the shoulder lanes are allowed for all motor vehicle traffic between certain hours, albeit with a lower spec limit than the regular lanes.
-jack On October 16, 2015 4:29:32 PM EDT, John Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: >My experience elsewhere is that shoulders are not considered legal >driving >lanes for motor vehicles, except under special circumstances, such as a > >construction zone where a normal driving lane has been shut down. >People >who try to use the shoulder as a driving lane receive traffic >citations. > >-- >John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com >"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate >cannot >drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. > > > >On October 12, 2015 11:05:12 PM Jack Burke <burke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Wait, question: >> >> Are these shoulder lanes under discussion *only* for bicycles, or for >motor >> vehicles as well? >> >> --jack >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Elliott Plack ><elliott.pl...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Mike, >>> >>> I have not seen the Shoulder or Lanes tags in wide use yet. I use >the >>> cycleway tags on the highway line way to denote bike lanes that are >part of >>> the road surface, as it seems your case is. (cycleway:right=lane). >Though >>> in this case it is arguable if the shoulder is a lane. What is >certain is >>> that most cyclists treat shoulders as such. >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway >>> >>> I'm interested in routing and the Open Source Routing Map project. >Cycle >>> and ped routing is especially interesting to me as an athlete, and >so I >>> looked on the ORSM backend for clues on how they're handling shared >lanes >>> and such. Looks like one of these tagging combos will work: >>> >https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/blob/8f8bd05f83fa2ccc542c2c44761f548a1e8b7579/features/bicycle/cycleway.feature >>> >>> Elliott >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:15 PM Mike Dupont < >>> jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi there, >>>> This road cr 546 (http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/566939) and >>>> many others here in the area has extra wide wide shoulders that >>>> people use for walking or biking. How do you want to tag them as >such >>>> so that we can also use that for routing? >>>> >>>> Here is a table of the segments with lane information >>>> >>>> >http://lawrencetwp.com/documents/planning/Route546BikewayBicycleCompatibilityMatrix.pdf >>>> >>>> I see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shoulder and >>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes what are your thoughts on >a >>>> detailed tagging for this information. >>>> >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> mike >>>> >>>> -- >>>> James Michael DuPont >>>> Kansas Linux Fest http://kansaslinuxfest.us >>>> Free/Libre Open Source and Open Knowledge Association of Kansas >>>> http://openkansas.us >>>> Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova >http://www.flossk.org >>>> Saving Wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion >>>> http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-us mailing list >>>> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-us mailing list >>> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ---------- >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-us mailing list >Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto-spell technology.
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