Junction road marking

by **Russ_H** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 6:47 pm

What do you make of this road marking? It is a one-way street away from the viewer - up the hill.

http://goo.gl/maps/GKyNk

by **Horse** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 6:55 pm

A waste of paint?

by **Silk** » Fri Nov 08, 2013 9:16 am

Russ_H wrote:What do you make of this road marking? It is a one-way street away from the viewer - up the hill.

http://goo.gl/maps/GKyNk

It's a traffic light stop line left over from before the street was made into a one-way?

Do I get a prize?

by **Slink_Pink** » Fri Nov 08, 2013 9:36 am

Horse wrote:A waste of paint?

+1

by **michael769** » Fri Nov 08, 2013 9:58 am

Silk wrote:It's a traffic light stop line left over from before the street was made into a one-way?

Do I get a prize?

It is too far forwards - and would have been beyond any primary signal head which is a major no-no (as the driver would not be able to see the signal, not to mention being past the pedestrian crossing.

I am not sure what the contractor was thinking of, perhaps it was a coffee run mark on his site plan?

by **revian** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:31 pm

1. Horse's waste of paint...
Or... Possibly...
2. Safety line of some kind for a the pedestrian crossing... Line in the Tarmac sand...
Or
Quiz question for your club night...

Ian

by **fungus** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:27 pm

Confused contractor. Or local authority using up paint at the end of the financial year.

by **revian** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:21 pm

Not the HS2 route is it?

by **Ancient** » Mon Nov 11, 2013 10:01 am

A third stop line for the RLJing truck behind the camera.

by **Russ_H** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:16 pm

To follow up on this, I emailed Gateshead Council, and they have confirmed that the marking has been painted in error. There is planned maintenance in the area shortly, and it will be removed.

by **cliftonite** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 10:31 pm

The pedestrian crossing light is odd too! On one side of the road only? Does that show green for pedestrians (going in one direction only!!!) when all the roads have "Stop" showing?

????confused????

by **TR4ffic** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:14 pm

cliftonite wrote:The pedestrian crossing light is odd too! On one side of the road only? Does that show green for pedestrians (going in one direction only!!!) when all the roads have "Stop" showing?

????confused????

No. They are there on both side of the crossing - the ones on the left are camoflaged by the black Audi/houses behind... but, yes, presumably pedestrians crossing here will get a 'green man' indication to cross when the three converging sets of traffic lights show 'red' and all traffic is stopped.

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