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Since the first ever white line in 1918, road markings have evolved to provide information and guidance, to warn road users, define boundaries, control traffic and parking. Yet over the past few days we’ve come across a couple of road markings that have grabbed our attention;
A spelling mistake outside of a school and an error on a bus lane causes a smile!
Meanwhile, road users in Downton (on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border) were left bewildered when workmen who were painting white lines down the centre of the road came across a dead badger blocking their path and instead of removing it decided that they would simply leave a gap.
However, workmen in Manchester took the opposite approach when their path was blocked whilst painting double yellow lines. Motorists who had parked their vehicles on roads with unrestricted parking in the city centre returned to discover that their vehicles had been lifted into the air and double yellow lines painted underneath.
On another amusing note, over the weekend over three million Germans threw a picnic / banquet along a 40 mile stretch of the autobahn to celebrate the Ruhr region, Europe’s Capital of Culture for 2010. I wonder what would happen if we tried this on the M6?!
Posted on 20.07.10
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