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Breakdown lane

Highway shoulder. Also, an oxymoron - the last place you want to break down in greater Boston is in the breakdown lane, especially during rush hour, when it becomes the high-speed lane (in some places, even legally). The state has built a series of emergency turn-outs along Rte. 128 so you can pull out of the breakdown lane if, in fact, your car breaks down.

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Comments

By northshoretin on Fri, 05/27/2005 - 8:00pm.

we always use this. i never knew it was only a Boston thing.

By KAWAKEB on Tue, 05/02/2006 - 9:42am.

thank you for let me all these words iam looking for more to learn.sincerely yours

By holly on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 8:31pm.

Really? I never knew that was only a boston thing? weird.

By EdMuse on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 11:16am.

Those "emergency turn-outs" are actually called, according to the signs that indicate them, "emergency pulloffs", a name that always struc me as having interesting sexual connotations...emergency?...

By Fenris on Sat, 01/09/2010 - 10:07pm.

I'm in Western Mass and we use this term too. Must be a New England thing.

By Two_birds on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 8:53pm.

If NOT the Breakdown lane, pray tell. What other term could you assign to this particular strip of road? I thought this was universal.
Then again, I forget sometimes that it's unacceptable to drive 75 in the breakdown in other states. :/

By adamg on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 9:02pm.

Or, if you want to drag it out, "highway shoulder."