Could any US residents tell me what is going on in this photo of a US roadway that I grabbed from a movie?
In the screenshot below, the two lanes to the right and the two lanes to the left both have moving traffic but the car in the center lane is stationary.
The solid line either side of the center lane seem to imply you can get out to either side once you are in, but you can't get in from either side.
So how does a car get in to the center lane if access from either side is denied?
Yet if you watch the movie linked below, at 28:24 the sign in the center lane implies you can enter the center lane to turn left or right but then what is the black car at 28:27 doing as there is no adjacent left or right turn where that car is located as it's clearly facing "north" as we look at the photo.
So I'm guessing the stationary car in the center lane could be a police car monitoring traffic and that makes me ask how long would a center lane like that usually be, if that is its purpose?
The other possibility implied by the photo is that the center lane is two-way and if that is the case then what are the rules if two emergency vehicles are in the center lane going in opposite directions towards each other at high speed with heavy stationary traffic either side?
Looks like a good scenario for a disaster movie.
Check it on Youtube. At 28:22, access to the center lane seems to be denied to everyone but at 28:24 that seems to be contradicted by a sign in the center of the road that allows access?
Perhaps my belief that you can't cross solid yellow lines is incorrect in this case?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnfGbp5Z1I4

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