Building rights for residents on adjoining Linden highways...

I've added a nicer shoulder to the section of Linden road in front of the Coonspiracy store in Noonkkot, without having to have build rights on the road itself.

Unfortunately I have a very 'jagged edge' to contend with...if I set lamp posts theyhave to be so far from the roadside they dont look right

The problem is not many "responsible citizens" seem to exist. On top of that: "one mans' pride is another mans' grief", a verb that's been very fitting to many mainland areas.

I think conferring with Linden Labs about making adjustments to protected land is the only way to go, and Linden Labs is, as they should be, very critical about any adjustments being made. On one side of the road someone might have a nice 1920's style parcel, while on the other side someone has, or might some day have, a cyberpunk styled parcel. Now what style should the lamp posts be?
So adjustments made to protected roads should be rather minor I think, going not much further than adding a driveway, a sidewalk or a parkinglot or something like that.

You're more than 30 meters from the road‽ o_O

Seriously, go visit the south-west corner of Noonkkot and see what I'm talking about.

Unfortunately I have a very 'jagged edge' to contend with...if I set lamp posts theyhave to be so far from the roadside they dont look right ( heaven forbid someone would want things to look 'right' in sl)...someone from lindens did fit me a nice zebra crossing uk style unfortunately the beacons dont look right they're too far from the kerb...and if I reposition them where they need to be - poof!!!!!!

Have you tried linking your lamp post to a "root prim" that is as far from the lamp post as it can be and still be linked. Then, positioning your lamp post so that it's where you want it to be while maintaining the root prim's location on your own property? If you haven't tried that yet it may solve your problem. As long as the root prim is the last prim selected before you link them, the Grid will see that linked object as being on your property, even though part of it (the lamp post) is some distance from the root prim and, hopefully, where you want it to be next to the Linden's roadway.

Be aware that the Linden could choose to return your lamp post(s) to you at any time. Although not likely unless someone specifically AR's them.

I live beside a Linden highway - as yet unmade, just hummocky grass with ferns.
Across the road from me is a mall that has a megaprim floor that overlaps the highway space, in the air, at about head height.

So, speaking as a resident who lives next to a Linden route, I don't think we should be given any special build rights except by consultation with the LDPW on a case-by-case basis. Yes, that would probably make it a slow process.

Unfortunately I have a very 'jagged edge' to contend with...if I set lamp posts theyhave to be so far from the roadside they dont look right ( heaven forbid someone would want things to look 'right' in sl)...someone from lindens did fit me a nice zebra crossing uk style unfortunately the beacons dont look right they're too far from the kerb...and if I reposition them where they need to be - poof!!!!!!

You can actually get offshore islands and rocks based on that principle for setting on Linden ocean next to your own land. I haven't heard of any being deleted/returned.

Isn't it time responsible sl land owners were given some building rights alongside Linden highways...

That would be nice. Sadly, I've seen a lot less of the responsible types and a lot more of the not-so-much types in my travels. :-/

well of course it would be up to lindens to determine responsible users

Like they determine what's a game of chance?

I'd also be able to move my teleporter from one side of the highway to the other without it being blocked...

[11:16] Blondin Linden: 3) Object Entry -

* [11:34] Cidri Katz: I have an issue on object entry permissions on Linden land in Zindra. Object Entry: All residents checkbox is not checked. This means that free-floating pets cannot enter roads and linden land. This checkbox is filled on linden land in other parts of SL. This is particularly annoying on passing roads between land in different sims and on sea areas.

[11:16] Blondin Linden: the turned-off "Object Entry" is to cut down on griefing incidents; on a lot of mainland Regions it's turned on by default, and crap just flies off from one spam-generating script, and bounces into the next big, open parcel the "fragment" is allowed to enter.

[11:17] Blondin Linden: so the idea was to cut down o[n] greifing

I suppose the problem is that the Linden highway is no-object-entry. That's not necessarily a bad thing. From http://slapt.me/wiki/index.php/Zindra_Alliance_-_Blondin_Linden_Meeting_Transcript:_27-07-2009:
Although I've never felt the need to turn off object entry on any of my parcels, my parcels don't span the continent and neighbor hundreds of other residents.

I can cross the highway travelling in my TARDIS - I cant summon it from one side of my land when its on the other using the 'remote control though....

If any one can think of a humerous answer for 'why did the TARDIS cross the road.....?'

You idea of good taste might be my idea of horrid taste, or vice versa. Buying next to protected land lets me have at least one side where I don't have to think about that.