Road Line Painting - Is This Common In Your Area?

[BigH]

All,
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?

 

[LittleInch]

Big h, I see your issue, but thats how it is. The issue is that from your driveway, lets say it is in a tight bend, you'll be doing it every day, you would only be overtaking a slow vehicle occasionally and you still needed to do it in a safe way.

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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[Ussuri]

The dashed lines at the side of the road are also common on main roads, to mark where laybys are.