What should a driver do when approaching this Divided Highway Ends sign?
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A.
Keep right and be ready for oncoming traffic in the lane next to you. Correct
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B.
Merge left because the right lane ends ahead.
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C.
Yield to traffic entering from a road that joins on the right.
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D.
Prepare to stop because two one-way roadways are ending at an intersection.
The answer is "Keep right and be ready for oncoming traffic in the lane next to you."
The two separated one-way roadways are about to merge back into one two-way road, so keep right and be ready for opposing traffic in the lane next to you. Passing here is risky because the neighboring lane now carries vehicles coming toward you rather than traveling with you. Drivers who read the word 'ends' on a yellow diamond as a lane drop reach for the merge-left answer, treating this the way they would a lane-reduction warning that uses the same shape and color.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Merge left because the right lane ends ahead.
The sign warns that the median between opposing directions is ending, not that a travel lane is being removed; the roadway continues as an undivided two-way road. This answer reads the word 'ends' on a yellow diamond as a travel lane disappearing rather than the median between opposing directions going away, borrowing the meaning from the lane-reduction warning that uses the same shape and color.
C. Yield to traffic entering from a road that joins on the right.
Nothing is joining from a side road here; the concern is oncoming vehicles now sharing the roadway with you once the median between directions disappears. This answer confuses the divided-highway-ends warning with the added-lane or side-road warning that pictures another roadway tying in from the right.
D. Prepare to stop because two one-way roadways are ending at an intersection.
The roadway continues past this point as a single undivided two-way road; the sign warns of oncoming traffic in the next lane, not of a required stop. This answer takes 'ends' to mean the roadway itself terminates, the way it does at a T-intersection warning, instead of just the separation between opposing directions ending.
This question tests your knowledge of Warning Signs on the roads of every US state . Source: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, sign W6-2 (Divided Highway Ends)..
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