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I didn‘t see any comment mentioning this, but not creating an emergency lane only 10 years ago was a huge problem in Germany. Then the government increased the fines massively and started a big awareness campaign. It took several years, but now it is the norm.
Intervention and change is possible as long as their is political will.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rettungsgasse
Seems easier to just design breakdown lanes on one of both sides. I've been in plenty of traffic where it wouldn't have mattered how polite and conscientious everyone was, there simply would not have been space for everyone to pull over like this. But everyone slowed and stopped in place, emergency services had no problem reaching the site via the shoulder/breakdown lane. Unless all of the lanes were blocked by the incident or a landing medical helicopter, traffic kept flowing past one side or the other of whatever was happening. Just because this kind of solution worked for Germany, doesn't mean it is appropriate everywhere. I'd rather trust my safety to civil engineers than political will and legislation.
That push in Germany quickly got wider EU traction & it's finally starting (5~10 years ago?) to be the norm in the main countries too (not just for when the traffic stops completely but even in cases of slow moving traffic like below 60 or maybe 80km/h).
Thx!
Interesting. I was going to reply that I have been in plenty of traffic jams on the Autobahn that did not have such a lane, but that was indeed more than 10 years ago!