Well in Tennessee, it is yield pulling onto a road, stop if pulling onto a highway. Don’t ask me how I know this.
There are no merging lanes on TN highways?
Yikes!
I told it before but a friend is on a private gravel drive with a couple other houses about a mile out of town. Of course there is a stop sign before entering the highway. As he was approaching the stop sign, his phone rang, so he stopped, put the truck in park, and undid his seat belt. Like me, I can’t dig the cell phone out with the belt on. A highway patrol came by an couldn’t cite him for a cell phone violation but did for not wearing a seat belt, stopped, in park, and on a private drive. I thought he should fight it but just paid it. And you wondered why I was concerned about driving during a state lockdown? That’s why we are called the star of the north. The red star of the north.
As long as I’m on a roll, way back when the limit was 55 and was building a house so I was always late and tired, I was tooling along at 70, then I saw him and slowed down. As soon as I got over the hill I stepped on the gas again and he waited to turn around when he couldn’t be seen. A few minutes later red lights in my mirror. He says good morning Sam, (he was a lodge friend of my dads). I think it was $70 back then. This guy used to brag about stopping a twins player and giving him a ticket, so no mercy. Some years later we ran into him at Disney along with my old plant manager who he was visiting. We had a pleasant conversation and neither one of us mentioned his career. Just doing his job with exuberance. I could have been shot if it was pheasant season since I used to road hunt on the way home. If you can’t pay the fine, don’t do the crime.
You are quoting the current traffic code, Lion9cars quote is from the current drivers manual. The wording in the manual is ambiguous at best.
I started driving in 1951 and wad cited in 1956 and found guilty for not stopping before entering a through highway. There was no oncoming traffic involved.
The term highway does not mean a limited access highway.
Back in 1956 there the highways were a lot different than they are now. So is the speed of cars. It’s EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to come to a complete stop before entering a highway. You need to get up to speed quickly. Unless you have a lambo you’ll never be able to do it before you’re killed by a Tractor Trailer.
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That is also true in MD and I imagine in most, if not all, states. Rural highways in MD have intersections in highways with a 55 mph speed limit. They all have stop signs for the crossing roads. US29 in Central MD has a few intersections without merge lanes for older residential developments. You can’t cross for a left turn, but the only merge is the shoulder and it doesn’t have merge lanes painted on it. US15 north from Frederick to Gettysburg even has left turns from crossing roads. It’s a 4 lane divide highway with 55 mph speed limit. Unlike US29 it’s rural.
Through highway in NY just means ny road that does not dead end. Many two lane roads in NY State have a 55 mph speed limit. It would be very dangerous to enter those roads without stopping and looking both ways from a driveway or private property. Besides, how much speed could you gain before making a 90 degree turn onto the road.?
On ramps do not have driveways on them.
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If there is a tractor trailer approaching, one should yield. This gas station has a gravel approach, should a driver tear through the shoulder in fear of the runaway tractor trailer? It could be 5 minutes before the next truck.
When NH widened I-93 from Salem to Manchester they added LONG merge lanes for vehicles entering highway. Most are at least 1/2 mile long. Exit 2 heading north is easily 1 mile long.
… and then we have seriously outdated highways–such as NY’s Belt Parkway–where the merging lanes are about the length of 4 or 5 cars. As dangerous as those miniscule merge lanes are nowadays, just imagine what it was like in the '40s and '50s, when cars did not accelerate nearly as fast as today’s cars.
Of course, there was less traffic in those days, but even back then, those merge lanes were a built-in hazard.
That’s like the parts of I-95 I’ve been on in CT. 4 or 5 cars is being generous.
Yes, much of CT’s I-95 is also seriously outdated.
Lest we forget how dangerous driving used to be,does anyone else remember w˙en there were no interstates in NY State and the highways that linked the towns together like routed 5 and 20 and 17 were mostly THREE lanes?
The center lane was used for passing in BOTH directions. Talk about head on alley.
Really going back in time! I think I was in kindergarten when there was still one three lane road in Illinois. Back then you could still get your kicks on Route 66!
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I well recall those three lane roads, and they were a major hazard for everyone–not just those who tried to pass other cars. I can’t say that I recall Route 5 or Route 20, but I do have unpleasant memories of Route 17–including its frequent bumper-to-bumper hours-long traffic jams on weekends and holidays.
Remember driving up the Wurtsboro hill on 17?
Oh yeah!
I also recall a LOT of cars from the '50s overheating in the incredible traffic jams on Route 17.
Yes I remember the two lane roads of the fifties. Gutters on the edge that would throw the car into oncoming lanes. Curves and hills with limited visibility, all the death markers, and so on. I can see this stuff but have no idea what states it was in.
50’s roads across northern Nevada were definitely dangerous. One lane in each direction. Main problem was when you got stuck behind an 18 wheeler. Nearly impossible to pass until the next big uphill, when the road designers gave you two lanes instead of one. Good enough, you’d pass he truck ok. Problem is, then the truck would pass you on the next big downhill. This back and forth would go on for 100’s of miles.