Question about Swedish road markings

[Nectaria Coutayar]

A question about traffic laws. What do the small markings on the sides mean? Is it for bicycles or am I supposed to go over to that lane as slow traffic? Anyone who knows? This is from Trondheim to Sündsvall but it was already in Sweden iirc.

[Nathan_A_RF]

I believe that just marks the edge of the road, but this is a very wide road. We have solid edge lines here in the UK instead of dashed ones.

[Noah_Lukas]

I heard it was supposed to be for the bicycles

[Smonocco]

If it's similar to what we have here (in Ireland), it allows for slower moving traffic to pull over so that other vehicles can pass. It's quite common here.

[KrysEmlyn]

I was wondering why the road was so wide in places up there in northern Sweden.
The reasons provided make more sense (space for slower vehicles to move out of the way).

[vukmania]

I have seen alot of them IRL in northen sweden, but I have honestly no good explaination till what it is.
Looking it up on wikipedia, it seems that the lines could indicate on a reserved lane for some other type of veicles. In urban areas, like Gothenburg it's reserved for the autobus.

Though, I know there are alot of wide roads near old military areas, mainly for mobility reasons, and on some parts it also serves as landingstrips for military planes(in case of a war).

In this case, I belive that it can be something of a combination of them, but probably the first one, as KrysEmlyn pointed out.

[Peterson]

It's a shoulder lane. If you break down, you can safely park there. It's a standard here in Slovakia, it's quite rare to see a road without a shoulder lane. It's forbidden to drive there, it's only for emergency (and mopeds).

[esa91]

In Sweden those wide areas in motorways (and roads where you can go over 80km/h) are usually ment for broken down wehicles, and also if you go slower and you have ppl behind you, you can move a bit over, and let ppl easier to pass you without you stopping out. Those larger sidelines are also ment for emergency/roadofficers vehicles when theres an accident. (now days, in sweden they are trying to teach the germanway that ppl would move to the sides so emercency vehicles can go center of the road)
- Here in Finland we dont have those, and in Norway they are pretty rare. But i did have to stop and ask this one from Swedish cops and trafficverget officers.

[Peterson]

Basically, if your car breaks down, or you simply have to change a tyre, you can safely stop there, since that lane is wide enough to swallow your car whole, so you won't obstruct the traffic.

It might also be a standard here simply because these two lane roads are common and main arteries, we don't have that many highways as in other countries. Any obstruction is a traffic flow nightmare. Of course, there are some parts where the road is narrow, but the road there is pretty old too. Anyways, they're there, they're good, they're safe. I can't imagine breaking down on the D1 three lane temp road, one woman got ran over by a truck there... they had to scrape her from the road.

[LegendMeadow]

I have seen alot of them IRL in northen sweden, but I have honestly no good explaination till what it is.
Looking it up on wikipedia, it seems that the lines could indicate on a reserved lane for some other type of veicles. In urban areas, like Gothenburg it's reserved for the autobus.

Though, I know there are alot of wide roads near old military areas, mainly for mobility reasons, and on some parts it also serves as landingstrips for military planes(in case of a war).

In this case, I belive that it can be something of a combination of them, but probably the first one, as KrysEmlyn pointed out.

I live up here in northern norway. I love driving in Sweden, the roads are so wide, especially on the E10.