The middle turning lanes found on busy arterials in urban areas or passing lanes that may be used by either direction of traffic. Sometimes these lanes are nicknamed as suicide lanes because both directions of traffic can use them. An example is along U.S. 287 in Wyoming just north of the Colorado State Line.
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