hard shoulder

English

hard shoulder (on the left)

Noun

hard shoulder (plural hard shoulders)

A verge to the side of a highway, which should be used only in case of an emergency (especially on a motorway)

Synonyms

breakdown lane

Translations

verge to the side of a highway

Catalan: voral m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 路肩 (zh) (lùjiān)
Finnish: piennar (fi)
French: bande d'arrêt d'urgence (fr) f
German: Standstreifen (de) m

Greek: ΛΕΑ f (LEA)
Portuguese: acostamento (pt) m, berma (pt) f
Russian: обо́чина (ru) f (obóčina)
Spanish: arcén (es) m
Swedish: vägren (sv)

See also

soft shoulder

Further reading

hard shoulder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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