When practical, it is usually considered better for the vehicle going downhill to yield the right of way by stopping at a wide spot. In Peru, the second of two overland transportation routes between Cuzco and Madre de Dios Region, a 300 km heavy-truck route, is a single-track road of gravel and dirt.
Forest Service and logging roads in the United States. In remote backcountry areas around the world, particularly in mountains, many roads are single-track and unmarked. One-lane road in California, United States In 2009, the A830 "Road to the Isles" and A851 on the Isle of Skye have had their single-track sections replaced with higher-quality single-carriageway road. Some A-class and B-class roads in the Highlands are still single-track, although many sections have been widened for the sake of faster travel. Sometimes two small vehicles can pass one another at a place other than a designated passing place. The same system is found very occasionally in rural England and Wales, as well as Sai Kung District in the New Territories.
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Signs remind drivers of slower vehicles to pull over into a passing place (or opposite it, if it is on the opposite side of the road) to let following vehicles pass, and most drivers oblige. On some roads, especially in Argyll and Bute, passing places are marked with black-and-white-striped posts. New signs tend to be square rather than diamond-shaped, as diamond signs are also used for instructions to tram drivers in cities. Passing places are generally marked with a diamond-shaped white sign with the words "passing place" on it. The term is widely used in Scotland, particularly the Highlands, to describe such roads. A B-class road near Kinlochard that is single-track
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