Cat Eyes in the Okanagan ?

[jimmy4321]

If stuff like this were winter friendly it would be cool to see them at problem crosswalks especially in cities where they get heavy rains where its just hard to see. Pedestrians too frequently get run over at crosswalks .

[Atomoa]

Outside Nelson BC (Taghum) BC Highways did a experiment with these through a section of tight corners. They performed well.

Instead of ontop of the asphalt, they dug out little pockets for the reflectors to sit just below the flush line. They lasted for years after well snowplowed Kootenay winters.

It's just expensive to do.

Someone should develop a paint that's just as envio-friendly but as reflective as the old stuff. The roads here are insane at nighttime during the winters. Grey/Black blur lane death gamble.

[Dizzy1]

Cool, but do you have a link for that? If this is possible in BC, it won't be done. BC builds highways in the cheapest possible way.

Just an example in an older picture ...



There are newer designs that make them much more durable as well. They're very similar (in principle) to the ones we see sporadicly placed here in BC, the main difference is that Europe uses high powered reflectors instead of cheap and useless reflective tape here. Many roads there will have white reflectors on one side and orange on the other, so the white reflectors will be on your right and orange on your left (opposite in the UK of course). As I mentioned, on rural roads, they are placed every 50 meters, one of the advantages to that is that you can easily judge your distance to the car in front of you and in times of poor visibility, some countries have laws requiring you to use your rear fog lights when visibility is 50m or less - so the uniform and regulated placement make it easy to figure that out.