Someone must have realized that the current rule for the left shoulder emergency lane was complicated and dangerous because the MOI has now canceled the left emergency lane completely. This whole you can drive on the emergency lane between certain hours only didn’t make any sense and nobody was following it anyway.
At least now its clear, if you’ve got car problems don’t stop on the left. Source
18 replies on “No More Emergency Lanes on the Left”
I think there are some words missing where you say ‘This whole you can drive…’
hmmm i just read it and nothing is missing
Ok I understand your meaning now.
This whole ‘hyphenated-string’ thing..
It should read: this whole “you can drive on the emergency lane between certain hours only”
The quotations are needed to delineate the saying and seperate it from the other saying “this whole”.
I learnt kuwait’s motorway system as from right lane to left, slow, fast and super fast. Will this new lane be used exclusively for people who want to go back in time (back to the future reference)?
Does the announcement say anything about it being a regular lane now, ie we can drive at 120 kph?
I think it’s dangerous to have four lanes with only one emergency lane all the way to your right. For example, if your tire pops on the left most lane, how are you expected to divert yourself through three other lanes (with medium to heavy traffic) without causing an accident?
But at least it is now clear that do not under any circumstances stop on the left most lane in most parts of the highway.
It works in many places around the world and is another reason for you to not cheap out on your tires and put everyone at risk.
Savage
It’s more dangerous to get a flat tire and park on the left even if there is an emergency lane on the left. as long as you’re moving move all the way to the right towards the slow lane and park there.
Fair enough. I’ve never thankfully had the experience of stopping on an emergency lane but I can imagine being terrified to be parked on the left most lane
I remember years a go a safety instructor during a safe driving course I attended saying:
If you get a flat tire on the highway, drive even on the rim to get off the highway and get out of the safety lane completely since the safety lane is not safe at all. Find a safe place outside of the highway and then get out of your car. You can always replace a broken rim but you can’t replace people.
This along with other valuable advise I still remember from that course. If you are ever in such a situation, get off the highway completely and don’t care about the damage to your car or wheels. Your car will drive at just fine on a wheel, look at all the videos on youtube of police car chases where the car being chased is driving for several kilometres only on the bare wheels.
100%, you can drive slowly with a flat tire, you don’t need to stop right in that spot to change the tire.
Ah…I didn’t realize that’s was the emergency lane. I thought it was the “drive like a dick” lane.
Yup and while driving (riding) yesterday there was an accident ahead and the cop had a hell of a time trying to get pass the blockade of cars, cars had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to get out of the way. In that moment the “emergency lane” was certainly needed.
Just to clarify, the left emergency lane is canceled the right emergency lane still exists.
an idiot was parked in the left lane last week i almost ran into him.