In Italy this one is the emergency lane and it's correct that none uses that. The problem is that Sicily is not Italy and a sicilian motorist (expecially a woman) could dive into water with his own car to evade the road traffic; so do you think that none will take possession of emergency lane in a NORMAL condition? Try to think what could happen in a emergency condition..
Surely it will be heavily monitored live by camera and other methods. It's going to be a double six-lane highway!! There's no reason one of the lanes couldn't be reserved for emergency traffic. Also, it's only 2.5 miles long. Huge for a bridge but nothing special otherwise. You could therefore reach any point on the bridge in about a minute. I have to say I'm not seeing any show-stoppers here.
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In Italy this one is the emergency lane and it's correct that none uses that. The problem is that Sicily is not Italy and a sicilian motorist (expecially a woman) could dive into water with his own car to evade the road traffic; so do you think that none will take possession of emergency lane in a NORMAL condition? Try to think what could happen in a emergency condition..
Surely it will be heavily monitored live by camera and other methods. It's going to be a double six-lane highway!! There's no reason one of the lanes couldn't be reserved for emergency traffic. Also, it's only 2.5 miles long. Huge for a bridge but nothing special otherwise. You could therefore reach any point on the bridge in about a minute. I have to say I'm not seeing any show-stoppers here.
Ok guy, you weren't born in Sicily..