Road paint and cat's eyes
Rant: Sunday, driving down from Breckenridge to Denver, light snow turning into freezing fog. Visibility goes down to literally 20 yards, perhaps 15. People whizzing by at 60mph. Insanity.
Anyway, the roads here in Colorado are a complete joke. Moreover the paint - non-reflective - and complete lack of cats eyes. It's 2018. Just pisses me off that they paint the roads with crappy paint that just rubs off and is impossible to see if there's the slightest bit of moisture. Disgraceful. |
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Some freeways here are the beige coloured concrete with white lines - no contrast at all, and the lines disappear in the rain, and few cats eyes. It's even worse when the lane markings veer away from the concrete segment edges. When it rains you can pass an accident every 10-20 miles easily.
There are some, presumably newer, freeways which do have the contrasting black and white lines, double-double yellow lines between HOV and normal lanes, and cats eyes though. But then they do roadworks and it's like my first paragraph. |
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Driving back to Denver on I 70 on a Sunday was your first mistake.
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They put in cateyes a few years ago around here. First winter snow and the plough trucks dug them all out.
A town over has tried putting them in again, but countersunk this time, a little deeper. Only on some of the bigger roads though. |
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For a while a year or so ago there were stretches of I-95 around New Haven that were being resurfaced and had no lane markings at all for a while, just a few catseyes. Quite terrifying even in daylight and good weather.
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Originally Posted by Octang Frye
(Post 12446934)
Rant: Sunday, driving down from Breckenridge to Denver, light snow turning into freezing fog. Visibility goes down to literally 20 yards, perhaps 15. People whizzing by at 60mph. Insanity.
Anyway, the roads here in Colorado are a complete joke. Moreover the paint - non-reflective - and complete lack of cats eyes. It's 2018. Just pisses me off that they paint the roads with crappy paint that just rubs off and is impossible to see if there's the slightest bit of moisture. Disgraceful. Once across into WA state however, reflective yellow and white paint as well as cat eyes, and on our most recent trip from Canadian border to San Diego, pretty much all the freeways we were on had reflective paint and cat eyes. The excuse in BC is cat eyes cannot be used due to snow clearing, but in WA & OR they have cat eyes and it snows in parts as well.... |
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"Lack of cats eyes" ?
I have lived here for almost 18 years as a truck driver, I have driven in all 48 lower states, the only state where I have seen cats eyes on a highway is MA. |
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Originally Posted by plasticbag_uk
(Post 12447143)
"Lack of cats eyes" ?
I have lived here for almost 18 years as a truck driver, I have driven in all 48 lower states, the only state where I have seen cats eyes on a highway is MA. I-5 in So. California, can see the reflectors in the photo. https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3940/1...3c7def04_b.jpg |
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I-25 near the Denver Tech Centre is getting worse every week. Just as I need to start merging for my exit there's a collection of potholes that can only be described as the Grand Canyon. Trying to avoid those, and general twats that can't drive trying to merge against the direction I'm going is also a delight.
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Originally Posted by BenK91
(Post 12447508)
I-25 near the Denver Tech Centre is getting worse every week. Just as I need to start merging for my exit there's a collection of potholes that can only be described as the Grand Canyon. Trying to avoid those, and general twats that can't drive trying to merge against the direction I'm going is also a delight.
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Originally Posted by Boiler
(Post 12447575)
I went through there the other week, going from IKEA to Boulder, should have used 470
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I am a cheap bastard so will not pay the toll.
When I drive up the TurnPike often wonder how much they get from the toll lane, does not see heavily used but might at busier times. |
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Photo from my office taken a few moments ago. I-25 northbound in its early morning prime, pretty much standstill:
http://i63.tinypic.com/df8707.jpg |
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Originally Posted by plasticbag_uk
(Post 12447143)
"Lack of cats eyes" ?
I have lived here for almost 18 years as a truck driver, I have driven in all 48 lower states, the only state where I have seen cats eyes on a highway is MA. Cats eyes are fairly common on highways here. Just not consistently so. |
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Originally Posted by BenK91
(Post 12447613)
Photo from my office taken a few moments ago. I-25 northbound in its early morning prime, pretty much standstill:
http://i63.tinypic.com/df8707.jpg Got a bit chilly last night, -10 when I got up but no wind and blue skies makes a big difference. |
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