Gnads wrote on May 1
st, 2025 at 2:13pm:
Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Apr 24
th, 2025 at 5:40pm:
Gnads wrote on Apr 24
th, 2025 at 4:13pm:
Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Apr 24
th, 2025 at 1:26pm:
freediver wrote on Apr 23
rd, 2025 at 9:05pm:
We spend an absolute fortune on rural roads that get fairly light traffic. A bit of paint is the least of our concern.
It should worry you as a citizen that on many rural roads the paint is misleading and the interrupted line goes around blind corners and over crests.
Not that such disregard for safety is confined to rural roads.
The New England Highway,
immediately south of Stonehenge, has a straight, followed by a left hand curve over a crest in a blind corner safely protected by interrupted new double lines., which would seem to indicate that those doing the painting are either stupid or don’t give a toss..
This is not an isolated example.
It's a long sweeping curve over a minimal rise.
Nothing blind about the curve at all - there is plenty of distance vision for any safe overtaking.
Sure it’s a sweeping curve, I wouldn’t call it long but it is blind and the minimal rise is enough to conceal an oncoming vehicle.
Where did you get your licence and how long ago were you tested?
One would think that a curve that one cannot see around would be considered blind especially when it has a blind crest as well.
Just Google , ‘’Google Earth’’ it gives the elevations relevant to the curve and crest, you might be surprised, and enlightened.
That's how I know old timer. It's not what I'd call a blind corner by any definition.
There would be nearly 5 hundred meters of vision in both directions.
Other wise there would be continuous double white lines around the sweep.
It's a good wide road with wide shoulders.
I've had a car, tractor, motorbike, bus, heavy rigid license since 1973.
I was a class 1 Locomotive Driver Trainer for 23 years prior to my retirement in 2019.
Are we talking about the same road
As far as I’m concerned if one cannot see around a curve when correctly positioned in the carriageway then that is a blind curve and if one can’t see over a crest that is high enough to conceal a vehicle then that is a blind crest and to not have them protected by double lines borders on criminal negligence.
I have had a driver’s licence since 1954 and I have driven tractors, graders, steam rollers, motor rollers, steam trucks, steam traction engines, heavy motor vehicles, light tanks, armoured personnel carriers and was a Call Boy [not to be confused with Callgirl] at Enfield Locomotive Depot, engine cleaner and have fired and driven numerous types of steam locomotives [although I wasn’t supposed to do so].
All of which has absolutely nothing to do with it.
The road from Glen Innes to Emmaville has numerous blind corners and at least two blind crests in 35 kilometres and the Gwydir Highway where it passes behind the Glen Innes hospital is a nice straight leading to a blind crest and the interrupted line goes over the crest, appropriately the Emergency Entrance at the hospital is on this section of the highway.
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