Why do road designers do silly things like this?
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Road near me. Lanes 1 and 2 swerve right to become L2 and L3 and create a new L1 on the left. To avoid the silly kerb sticking into L3 you have to encroach into a little into L2, certainly if you're driving anything larger than a medium sized saloon car. Why isn't that silly bit of kerb smoothed off to be parallel with the white lines that separate the two lanes.
It looks like they changed the road markings but not the kerb profile. 
TrophyMax said:
Near me too 
I'm always nervous going into the middle lane (which is straight on) in case someone hits me from the right due to the sudden curve in road markings.
Yes, we were out with my OH's dad and a police car of all things nearly hit him as he moved right to follow L1 as it became L2 and they failed to follow the markings! I'm always nervous going into the middle lane (which is straight on) in case someone hits me from the right due to the sudden curve in road markings. donkmeister said:
Whilst it's a bit shoddy, it looks like plenty of room judging by the van.
The street view is a bit deceptive. If I'm on the right it feels tight in my 3 Series or the OH's 1 Series. If I'm on the left I just keep left long enough for anyone on the right to have the extra space they might need, though others often aren't as thoughtful.donkmeister said:
What's the speed limit on that section?
40, though 40 is probably optimistic in that lane.Not surprising. My home from home is St Ives in Cornwall. A short stretch of road which links Nut Lane roundabout at Lelant and the B3301 from St Erth roundabout to Hayle has been made one way for cars with the other half exclusively for cycles, so people traveling from St Ives to Hayle now have to go to the St Erth roundabout and then back down the B3301. Only traffic coming back can cut through the old road, but now is at greater risk of conflict when crossing the B3301 because traffic on the B3301 now includes cars which have been forced to go that way by the introduciton of the one way system. Had the one way system been the other way this conflict would have been avoided. Needless to say, the bloke in charge of the council at the time, and possibly still, is an avid cyclist who doesn't drive.
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