Roadway markers are the bedrock of traffic engineering systems
. Painted lines, directional signs, coloured lights, arrows and reflective barriers give drivers the information they need to follow the rules set down by our laws.Canada and Australia basically follow a convention on road signs based on the American Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. That manual tells government authorities what a sign or traffic control device should look like when they want drivers to do certain things, like,stop, slow down or not turn here.
I’ve seen a couple of examples recently where a solitary 40-km sign is erected on one block but not on the subsequent blocks along that same street. So if you turned onto that street a block away from that 40-km sign, you haven’t actually passed any speed sign — the speed limit is legally then 50 k. The point is: If you want a 40-km zone you have to sign it properly — every block.On one stretch of road there’s a simple painted white line marking a shoulder.
It’s hard to understand why this is so difficult given that traffic signals and sign configurations are clearly spelled out in our motor vehicle act regulations. Hey, they’ve even thrown in little pictures showing exactly what these things are supposed to look like.
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