Road Line Painting - Is This Common In Your Area?
Road Line Painting - Is This Common In Your Area?
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I am working in Malaysia. I've dealt with roads before - Interstate-type Highway in China, Country highways in Laos, 4-Lane Highway in India - but I have never seen this before (see attached).
I've always thought that edge lines were simply to mark the edge of the road - and that the solid (or striped) centreline was for overtaking. Here, though, it seems like they do not think one can cross a solid centreline or edge line to turn into a driveway! To me, that is lunacy - or close to it.
Is this common in your area? Or just here?
I am working in Malaysia. I've dealt with roads before - Interstate-type Highway in China, Country highways in Laos, 4-Lane Highway in India - but I have never seen this before (see attached).
I've always thought that edge lines were simply to mark the edge of the road - and that the solid (or striped) centreline was for overtaking. Here, though, it seems like they do not think one can cross a solid centreline or edge line to turn into a driveway! To me, that is lunacy - or close to it.
Is this common in your area? Or just here?





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Of course in California some drivers would take the center dashed lines as 'passing approval' and they'd try to pass in the distance designated.
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In the UK, the lines on the edge of the road tend to appear in rural areas to help identify the edge of the road at night. The double white lines means no passing or turning across them other than passing a very slow or stationary vehicle. In theory, if your entrance was onto a road with DWL, you are not allowed to turn right, hence the dashed lines.
Having a dashed line at the small engraves works well for me, it identifies an entrance for the main road and allows crossing a solid white line which is generally prohibited.
It is common in the UK to do it this way on rural roads.
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We saw while driving the farm roads in the upstate UK that, once the center divider strip went away, the roads became one-car-wide-but-two-way-watch-out-for-on-coming-cars (and tractors).
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Given that looks hand-painted
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If I can't pull out of my driveway onto a rural road and turn right across a solid centreline, I can't see why one could argue it is okay to pass a super slow moving vehicle by crossing a solid centreline.
Interesting discussion . . . "therory" vs "practical" - and they don't have bicycle lanes here.
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Quote from the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002: "(a)Edge of the carriageway at a road junction or a lay-by, or at an exit from a private drive onto a public road..."
The only places we use edge of carriageway solid lines are motorways, all-purpose dual carriageways (where they're also ribbed to give an audible warning), and on rural single carriageways where there are no kerbs, so it's not as if they're on every residential street.
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Double white lines, at least in the UK, are only applied where you really can't see more than 20 or 30m so you are unfortunate if your driveway is there.
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