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Overtaking lanes in single-carriageway tunnels[edit]
@SHB2000: Here ("more precise?") "passing places" was changed to "overtaking lanes". I doubt these remote single-carriageway tunnels have overtaking lanes. Do you have any information on them? Reverting for now. –LPfi (talk) 10:41, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- I've since come to learn that the correct term for such in is "passing bays" in NZ English, so I think "overtaking bays" would be a better term to coil this (not exactly that, but you get what I mean). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 10:44, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- I think my rationale originally was that "passing places" is not usually a term used in English. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 10:47, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Probably not, but these bays are not used for overtaking, if my understanding of that word (and the intended meaning) is correct, but for letting oncoming traffic pass. I don't know what word to use. Driving in Iceland#One-lane bridges call them lay-bys, would that work? –LPfi (talk) 11:15, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Lay-bys works (after some digging, it's what is also used here in Australia). --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 11:18, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- :-) LPfi (talk) 12:35, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- (-: --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 12:41, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- :-) LPfi (talk) 12:35, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Lay-bys works (after some digging, it's what is also used here in Australia). --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 11:18, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Probably not, but these bays are not used for overtaking, if my understanding of that word (and the intended meaning) is correct, but for letting oncoming traffic pass. I don't know what word to use. Driving in Iceland#One-lane bridges call them lay-bys, would that work? –LPfi (talk) 11:15, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- I think my rationale originally was that "passing places" is not usually a term used in English. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 10:47, 29 March 2024 (UTC)