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Monday, September 17, 2007
The “suicide lane”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you happen to be one of those drivers that tools down Ga. 85 in the center of Fayetteville, there is a lane smack in the middle of the road I refer to as “the suicide lane.”
I think the name I use is fairly apropos because there have been times when I really feel like I’m taking my life into my hands when I use that lane. I believe its purpose is to provide motorists in both directions a lane in which to make a left turn or right turn, depending on which direction you are driving and by doing so, helping the flow of traffic.
Is everybody with me so far? I don’t know about you, but the older I get the more I try to avoid that particular space.
Let me see if I can explain my fear. There have been plenty of times when I get into that lane only to find that someone from the opposite direction is also barreling down the same lane. That’s when I have to make a quick decision to either get back into the flow of traffic or just stop the car all together. So I’m making more right turns to order to avoid that lane that sits in the middle of the road. Does anybody have another name for that lane? And do you avoid it all costs? Or is it just me?
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