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  1. 9th May 2011, 21:36 #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
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    soo two yellow reflectors on the right hand side of the road means a left hand turn..
    distance between markers indicates how windy the road is 25M, 50M etc

    What other little messages do they convey with these fancy signposts?
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    The green ones

    Tell you there is a culvert or drain.Some markers have numbers on them,telling you how far you are from a certain point,such as town or road end,think they are only on state highways though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ac3_snow View Post
    soo two yellow reflectors on the right hand side of the road means a left hand turn..
    distance between markers indicates how windy the road is 25M, 50M etc

    What other little messages do they convey with these fancy signposts?
    White zebra stripes for LH side of a bridge / cuulvert, yellow zebra stripes for the RH side. The white / yellow handednes thing is consistent.

    I think Gremlin said they're not always 100% reliable, I have seen them positioned poorly or the paintwork / reflectors less than perfectly clear but I've never seen one actually lie.
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    Excellent educational thread!

    I knew about the distance between them decreasing for tighter corners but was hazy on the reflector thing.

    Well done for posting up this topic for discussion

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    White zebra stripes for LH side of a bridge / cuulvert, yellow zebra stripes for the RH side. The white / yellow handednes thing is consistent.
    Green band around the post marks a culvert.

    Snow prone areas may use orange posts
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    Quote Originally Posted by Motu View Post
    They are double sided - the left hand ones are on the left hand side,and the right hand ones on the right hand side.The really tricky thing is,and I don't know how they do this...but when you are going the other way,they are still the same...left on the left hand side,right on the right hand side.I'm sure some of the knowledgeable people on this site will explain it to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by buellbabe View Post
    Excellent educational thread!

    I knew about the distance between them decreasing for tighter corners but was hazy on the reflector thing.

    Well done for posting up this topic for discussion

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    Agreed, never knew the other info...
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    The old wooden pegs were bloody handy when needing a base to sit the car jack on. or prising a bent mudguard away from the tyre.

    They weren't bad firewood either. Cant think of any practicle use for these plastic markers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by awa355 View Post
    Cant think of any practicle use for these plastic markers.
    You can make good bark busters out of them.
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    The important bit is ... A WHITE vertical strip of reflecting tape on the LEFT side ... and twin(short) virtical YELLOW strips on the RIGHT ...

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    WHITE ... LEFT HAND SIDE ...

    TWO YELLOW ... RIGHT HAND SIDE .

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    Ignore all road markings, they are for other people.
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    Quote Originally Posted by awa355 View Post
    Cant think of any practicle use for these plastic markers.
    i found one marking the local burger king once. right in the middle of the lane, which had a nasty camber on it. damn near arsed off trying to kick it out of the way. wtf it was doing in the middle of town i dont know.
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