Two solid white lines painted straight across a roadway at an intersection identify what?
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A.
A marked pedestrian crosswalk where drivers must yield to people crossing. Correct
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B.
A stop line where drivers halt before entering the intersection.
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C.
A lane divider separating two lanes of same-direction traffic.
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D.
A no-passing zone for vehicles approaching the intersection.
The answer is "A marked pedestrian crosswalk where drivers must yield to people crossing."
A pair of solid white lines drawn across the roadway marks a transverse crosswalk, the pavement's label for a pedestrian crossing point where drivers must yield. The stop-line answer is the trap. Drivers see white paint drawn across a lane, remember the stop-at-signal instruction from the same passage, and carry it over to the doubled marking that actually defines the crossing.
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B. A stop line where drivers halt before entering the intersection.
A single solid white line across a lane is a stop line; the doubled lines here mark the crossing itself, not the position a vehicle stops at. Carries the stop-behind-the-line instruction from the same passage over to the doubled marking, because both are white paint drawn across the lane at an intersection.
C. A lane divider separating two lanes of same-direction traffic.
Lane dividers run parallel to the direction of travel, not across it, and they separate lanes rather than mark a pedestrian crossing. Relies on the shortcut that any white pavement line marks a lane, and skips the check for whether the stripe runs with traffic or straight across it.
D. A no-passing zone for vehicles approaching the intersection.
No-passing rules are carried by yellow center-line markings, not by white lines drawn across the roadway. Applies the 'doubled lines mean no passing' shortcut to a transverse marking, missing that passing rules attach only to yellow longitudinal lines.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Markings on the roads of every US state . Source: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, marking 3B.18 (Transverse Crosswalk)..
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