Talk:Northern Islands

Overtaking lanes in single-carriageway tunnels

@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)