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Countdown to the deceleration lane
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Each bar on a blue motorway countdown marker represents about 100 yards to the start of the deceleration lane: three, two and one bars approach it in that order. They are exit markers, not emergency-telephone distances. Lane-drop exits can use different signing without these markers.
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