All lanes are included in the carriageway.

Lanes, carriageway, hard shoulder and road

• The lanes are the fields where cars, trucks, busses and other motor vehicles drive.
• The carriageway is all the lanes put together.
• The hard shoulder is the part of the road which is outside the carriageway.
• The road is everything (lanes, carriageway and hard shoulder) put together.

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