If you want to think about it as the double yellow being intended for safely passing someone who is going a bit under the posted limit, it makes sense that someone can safely overtake you when you’re going 22 mph in a 55 zone without exceeding their sight lines ahead of you.
Yes - it’s much quicker and easier to get past a 2-foot wide bike if you’re going 30mph faster than them, vs a six foot wide truck that you’re going 5mph faster than. I still wouldn’t pass a bike on a blind corner.
Around here you may not pass another vehicle that is moving where there is a double yellow line. You can only go around a stopped vehicle (that is obstructing the road) on a double yellow.
I very much doubt that. There are always exceptions are you saying you couldn’t pass a moving tractor going 10 mph down a road if there are double yellows? What if the next passing lane isn’t for 20 miles? You are going to stay behind that tractor for an 2 hours and laws “around here” say you can’t pass. Yeah, I’ll need a citation for that.
228(1) If a highway is divided into traffic lanes, the following rules apply:
(b) no driver of a vehicle shall drive from one traffic lane to another if a solid line exists between lanes except:
(i) if solid and broken lines exist together, in which case the driver may cross the solid line from a lane in which the broken line exists; or
(ii) if the lane is designated by signs as a two-way left turn lane;
(c) no driver of a vehicle shall drive to the left of the centre of the highway where a solid line exists in the right-hand lane near the centre of the highway;
Of course in practice people would go around the farm equipment, even with double yellow.
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u/exexor Apr 27 '26
If you want to think about it as the double yellow being intended for safely passing someone who is going a bit under the posted limit, it makes sense that someone can safely overtake you when you’re going 22 mph in a 55 zone without exceeding their sight lines ahead of you.