Originally Posted by
BobbyG
Fresh lane marker paint won't stop some people from driving on the shoulder.
A "do not enter" sign does not stop people from driving up highway off ramps, but a solid white line would be an ongoing clue that you're not supposed to use the shoulder as a travel lane.
That it was missing is part of why the shoulder "felt" like a travel lane.
Really the only ongoing evidence that it wasn't one was my memory of the road configuration, and the social factor of there being a lot of cars in the "left" lane but (almost) none in the shoulder.