41. The N4 Sligo road has a bypass around the town, which consists of single carriageway with hard shoulders and four roundabouts. 42. The road had no hard shoulder but two emergency lay-bys with SOS phones and lights were provided midway along its length. 43. The hard shoulder is demarcated with a dashed yellow line ( as opposed to an unbroken yellow line on motorways ). 44. As part of the SR 520 Bridge Replacement and HOV scheme, WSDOT plans to implement junction control through hard shoulder running. 45. There is no hard shoulder at the moment and the lanes are only separated by a one meter high concrete wall. 46. It is not part of the M27 as its hard shoulders are not quite wide enough to comply with motorway regulations. 47. It was originally a two lane single carriageway road that was upgraded to 2 lane plus with hard shoulders in 1973. 48. If you get caught in that, you could get a hard shoulder , a hard elbow; worst case is you get something broken. 49. Each tube of the old tunnel was only wide enough to accommodate two lanes of traffic ( with no hard shoulder ). 50. In Ireland, the provision of hard shoulders on interurban routes in the 1970s reportedly resulted in a 50 % decrease in accidents.