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I've found that merges in California are also quite different from what I've experienced on the East Coast. It seems that in California two lanes simply lose th

by jaxx75 9y ago

I've found that merges in California are also quite different from what I've experienced on the East Coast. It seems that in California two lanes simply lose their separating lane stripe and it serves as a merge. Also, I find California's Botts' Dots[0] insufficient at marking lanes clearly, but I do like the tactile feedback. While I'm mentioning gripes with California roads, the freeway/highway entrance markers just seem to be staked onto the entrance of the on-ramp—and often, if approaching, the sign is just after the entrance ramp. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botts%27_dots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botts%27_dots

amyjess 9y ago
> Also, I find California's Botts' Dots[0] insufficient at marking lanes clearly, but I do like the tactile feedback. Various municipalities in Texas use them too (called "buttons" here), very inconsistently. I agree with your assessment; ideally, roads should use both paint and buttons, but that's not as common as it should be. From poking around on Street View, it appears that there are a lot of roads in California that put painted lines over the buttons, but I've yet to see any place in Texas that does so (except one road in Addison, but they've since removed the buttons as they're in the process of switching over to paint). One thing interesting about North Texas is that you can actually tell which suburb of Dallas you're in, based on not only whether they use paint or buttons, but also based on how they lay out the buttons. Some examples follow. Legend: - = paint, . = button, ] = reflector Dallas itself uses paint exclusively, with reflectors placed halfway between the stripes: ------------- ] ------------- ] ------------- Richardson places the reflectors at the tail end of each set of buttons, as if the reflector was a button, and they're wildly inconsistent from road to road about how many buttons constitute a set, as well as the proper spacing between each button. You get arrangements such as these: ] . . . ] . . . ] . . . ] . . . . ] . . . . ] . . . . ] . . . . . . ] . . . . . . ] . . . . . . Plano used to use four buttons, spaced out a decent amount, with reflectors placed halfway between each set: . . . . ] . . . . ] . . . . But now they're cramming in a second reflector in the middle of each set of buttons and tightening the spacing between the buttons a bit. They're migrating one road at a time to the new system: . . ] . . ] . . ] . . ] . . ] . .

by jaxx75 9y ago

amyjess 9y ago

> Also, I find California's Botts' Dots[0] insufficient at marking lanes clearly, but I do like the tactile feedback. Various municipalities in Texas use them too (called "buttons" here), very inconsistently. I agree with your assessment; ideally, roads should use both paint and buttons, but that's not as common as it should be. From poking around on Street View, it appears that there are a lot of roads in California that put painted lines over the buttons, but I've yet to see any place in Texas that does so (except one road in Addison, but they've since removed the buttons as they're in the process of switching over to paint). One thing interesting about North Texas is that you can actually tell which suburb of Dallas you're in, based on not only whether they use paint or buttons, but also based on how they lay out the buttons. Some examples follow. Legend: - = paint, . = button, ] = reflector Dallas itself uses paint exclusively, with reflectors placed halfway between the stripes: ------------- ] ------------- ] ------------- Richardson places the reflectors at the tail end of each set of buttons, as if the reflector was a button, and they're wildly inconsistent from road to road about how many buttons constitute a set, as well as the proper spacing between each button. You get arrangements such as these: ] . . . ] . . . ] . . . ] . . . . ] . . . . ] . . . . ] . . . . . . ] . . . . . . ] . . . . . . Plano used to use four buttons, spaced out a decent amount, with reflectors placed halfway between each set: . . . . ] . . . . ] . . . . But now they're cramming in a second reflector in the middle of each set of buttons and tightening the spacing between the buttons a bit. They're migrating one road at a time to the new system: . . ] . . ] . . ] . . ] . . ] . .