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ROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL EXPERIMENTS IN ENGLAND. ’pHE district surveyor of Long Ashton District, Somerset County Council, has extended experiments as the result of experience previously gained for safer road travel... Where the Bristol-Weston-super-Mare road was of suitable width, three traffic lines have been marked out by means of different colour sections. The results obtained are considered to be equally satisfactory to those when two traffic lanes were laid, and the use of colours for this purpose strongly commends itself as an alternative to, or improvement on, white lines. The provision of traffic lanes by means of colours appears to be a safety scheme as near foolproof as possible until such time as dual carriageways can be provided.
The same surveyor has experimented with a special type of kerb, the results of which are held to be highly satisfactory. Facets are introduced into the kerb, which cancel the angle of incidence and reflection on the head-lights of cars on to the kerb. That is, they give a direct reflection back to the eye of the-driver. The facets have been arranged as the result of careful mathematical calculations, so that the most brilliant reflection is given.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2668, 10 September 1937, Page 6
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