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No, it's neither of those things IMO. (I've driven a lot in Australia and in the US.) The latter you mentioned sounds like a truck-specific rest-stop - there ar
by prawn 3y ago
No, it's neither of those things IMO. (I've driven a lot in Australia and in the US.) The latter you mentioned sounds like a truck-specific rest-stop - there are loads of those on the Stuart Highway, or heading over to Eyre Peninsula.
What they're talking about are turnout lanes which are a lane beside the road with no median/barrier and you're expected to slow down or maybe stop very briefly, purely to let faster traffic through. There are some up on the road past Pichi Richi Park to Quorn if you ever drive through the Southern Flinders, but they're not overly common in SA.
I've seen them formally in northern USA (Idaho going into Washington state, maybe) where they are risky and unclear, and I've seen informal ones on roads east of the Sierra Nevada which are like your quote - rough, unpredictable poorly laid asphalt or gravel.
- iudqnolq 3y agoNo, a pullout is not an extra lane. The smaller ones are about thirty feet long paved or gravel, but especially in California they can be a few times longer. They look like so: https://i0.wp.com/takemytrip.com/images/550x_14d_DSC03483.JPG?resize=550%2C367&ssl=1 https://i0.wp.com/takemytrip.com/images/550x_14d_DSC03483.JP...
- prawn 3y agoIs there a distinction between turnout and pullout? An RV is 20-30+ feet long. Thirty feet isn't enough time to slow and stop at speed. Let alone build up speed and reenter the main route. Even the one in your picture (much longer than 30') is an example of one that is risky for an RVer to use. People would use that to stop and take a photo or take their kid to the toilet, but proper ones are closer to an actual lane as in, same surface as the road, and longer. And no one would stop on them other than for 10 seconds to let traffic pass. Here's one on the southern side of Flinders Ranges Way here in South Australia (where I assume @NL still lives): https://www.google.com.au/maps/search/quorn/@-32.4561221,137.9721475,181m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&entry=ttu https://www.google.com.au/maps/search/quorn/@-32.4561221,137...