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β 14y agoThat is false. At least in America. Solid yellow lines are the means to separate traffic traveling in an opposite direction. A solid white line marks the outside edge of your lane, or the outside edge of the lane traveling in your direction. Meaning you'll either go into the shoulder, or off the road entirely, if you go over the solid white line.
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β 14y agoyes
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Traffic moving the opposite direction of most other traffic
A roadway is considered a divided highway if the lanes moving traffic in opposite directions separated by a
Traffic moving the opposite direction of most other traffic
Traffic, a conveyor belt, a river current, and a moving walkway can proceed in the opposite direction.
Interstate Highway 495, which was named "The Circumferential Highway", but is now called "The Beltway," was designed to carry traffic around the city of Washington. The highway is made of two rings or "loops"; the "inner loop" carries traffic in a clockwise direction around the city, and the "outer loop", the opposite direction. When there is construction, a traffic accident, and the like impeding traffic on I-495, the location of the incident is usually identified by the nearest exit and "inner" or "outer" loop, because usually traffic traveling in the opposite direction is not affected.
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To indicate that traffic in that lane is flowing in the same direction as you are traveling.
Traffic in the lane opposite the yellow line travels in the opposing direction.
Generally it means that the cars on the other side of the line will be travelling in the opposite direction as you are. A white line means that the traffic is facing the same direction as you, or that there is no travel across the line (shoulder).