Outside a crosswalk, you see yellow or white diagonal stripes painted on the pavement ahead. What do those stripes mark?
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A.
Shared-use lanes for buses and bicycles.
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B.
School crossing zones ahead of intersections.
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C.
Areas reserved for emergency stopping only.
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D.
Fixed obstructions such as medians. Correct
The answer is "Fixed obstructions such as medians."
Yellow or white diagonal stripes mark fixed obstructions such as medians and no-parking zones, and you must not drive through them. Choice B tempts drivers who know marked crosswalks can also be filled with white diagonal lines and then apply that pedestrian-crossing pattern to any diagonal striping they see on the pavement.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Shared-use lanes for buses and bicycles.
Shared-use bike lanes are marked with sharrows and bus lanes with restricted-lane signs, not with diagonal stripes painted across the pavement. This answer groups every unfamiliar pavement mark under a shared-use label, though sharrows and lane symbols look nothing like diagonal stripes.
B. School crossing zones ahead of intersections.
School crossings are identified by fluorescent yellow-green signs and pedestrian crosswalk markings, not by the obstruction striping this question describes outside any crosswalk. This answer carries the diagonal-fill pattern from marked crosswalks over to every stretch of striped pavement, treating any painted diagonal as a pedestrian cue.
C. Areas reserved for emergency stopping only.
Emergency stopping areas are identified by the 'Emergency Stopping Only' regulatory sign; the striped pavement in this question marks an area you may not enter at all. This answer confuses a shoulder-use permission set by a regulatory sign with obstruction striping that forbids driving through the area.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Markings in Florida. Source: Florida Driver Manual, "Pavement Markings - Other Markings," p.46..
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