"Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever" (superchan7)
12/21/2018 at 22:55 • Filed to: Freeway, Highway, California, Bott's Dots
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"Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever" (superchan7)
12/21/2018 at 22:55 • Filed to: Freeway, Highway, California, Bott's Dots | 0
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As many Californian car enthusiasts know, in the past year or two CA has begun to replace the famous Botts’ Dots on highways with wider, more visible stripes.
Here is CA-85 in Cupertino, with the transition between old style and new style:
It’s not apparent that the contrasting black borders will actually become the standard for bare concrete, as the even the new striping varies between different routes. For example, US-101's concrete sections in the area employ full-width contrasting black stripes between the dotted white ones.
Either way, I will miss the dots somewhat. They defined Californian roads for me, and now Californian highways will become
less unique.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
12/21/2018 at 23:08 |
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So long drive by feel. Honestly I haven’t even noticed but I haven’t been to San Jose since August.
facw
> Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
12/21/2018 at 23:18 |
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I certainly support moving to safer and/or more efficient markings, but it’s a bit surprising to me that they’d redo the existing roads instead of waiting for them to be repaved. I guess in CA, those concrete slab roads can probably last half a century, so waiting may be a poor idea if there is a significant benefit to the change.
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Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
> facw
12/21/2018 at 23:55 |
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I’ve read that better striping also helps autonomous cars, so the reasons are many.
Terra
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
12/22/2018 at 00:24 |
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How will all those people staring at their phones know when they cross into another lane now?
PyramidHat
> Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
12/22/2018 at 04:16 |
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See, I havent noticed, but I’ll look now...I’m so used to construction in Palo Alto, the lack of dots didn’t register...