White Lines Removed

Interesting safety experiment or 'total madness'?

By PH Staff / Thursday, 14 November 2002 / Loading comments

Following an initiative in Holland, Wiltshire County Council are removing signage from roads in a safety experiment.

Rather than plaster the centre of the road with cross hatching and red tarmac, they're not painting the road at all. The lack of a centre line is intended to increase the degree of 'uncertainty' experienced by users of the road and make them more cautious as a result.

The experiment is limited to five roads at present.

Typically, there's been a knee jerk reaction by some before waiting to see the results, with one local councillor branding it as 'Total madness' and claiming that it's a cost cutting exercise.