Inside, Outside, Near Lane, Far Lane, whatever...

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
>
>  
> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > Still confusing, but I think I get it now, though again, it
> > doesn't matter which side of the road you drive on. That is,
> > I don't see that as a factor in designating the lanes 'inside'
> > or 'outside'.
> > 
> Potioncat:
> A question for Geoff,
> When you are on a mult-lane road, on which side (from your point of 
> view) is the on-coming traffic?
> 
> In the US, driving on the right, the on-coming traffic is on our left. 
> Which is why the left is the "middle." If you were looking at a multi-
> lane road from an airplane, it would make sense. The middle would to 
> all drivers' left.
 
Geoff:
The offside - to my right.

I haven't said that the middle (of the entire road) isn't the middle.

I said that, within a context of driving with three lanes going in the 
same direction, in UK English, the leftmost lane  is the inside lane, 
the rightmost lane the outside lane and the lane is the middle is....  
 ...the "middle lane".