Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[darrsi]

Yep cheverons are there to separate traffic and you should not go in them, in your picture scenario its not so bad but the chevrons are used in all kinds of road situations, and its all well and good your first car doing it but the next one will still black the traffic if the first car is still there.
And you will get a puncture sooner or later.
I go my 6inch nail from overtaking stationary traffic that had a very long thin chevron area on the right in between two pedestrian refuges, whih is why the chevrons were there to protect the pedestrian refuge 

"...•If the area is bordered by a broken white line, you should not enter the area unless it is necessary and you can see that it is safe to do so..."

Looks safe enough to me, and it is necessary if you don't want to hold up every other poor sod behind you!