Longest-defunct road markings still visible?

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Longest-defunct road markings still visible?

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Westbourne School (a behavoiural special school) in R. L. Stevenson Avenue, Bournemouth, closed in July 1993 and was demolished in 1994.

However, 26 years after demolition, the faint remains of the zigzag markings as well as the SCH of SCHOOL KEEP CLEAR are still just clinging on to life.

I wonder if anyone can find any other remnants like this on a road that is not itself defunct?
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Scars on the M25 at the M1 junction from the temporary marking arrangements during widening works over 10 years ago. They become much more apparent when wet https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7145427 ... 384!8i8192
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There are still plenty of temporary Gatso markings on motorways from the days when they were used in roadworks before Specs took over.
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No lines but I'm pretty sure the defunct road studs and surfacing they are sitting in on this bit of the M3 to M25 slip road are what was present before the improvements completed about 1989ish:
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There's an absolute shambles of lines at the junction in strsthtay village, not sure which ones are legit or how long it's been like that.

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https://goo.gl/maps/GUJinAbYWrNGCNkdA

These stubs are left over from when the main road was realigned in the early 90's. What is now the approach to the white guest house's driveway was surface of the A52, so that's why the white lines are still there.
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1990 - A23 (Bolney) - Old SB off-slip road, you can see the markings used to be a left arrow & a right arrow, however is now a two-way road.
1969 - apparently this section of road was bypassed in 1969 (old-maps), however still has very well surviving deflection arrows
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.25903 ... 312!8i6656
It is possible that it was still open to motor traffic for some period after, but now it is closed to motor vehicles when I cycled through it last week.

But how about renewed defunct road markings: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.25138 ... 312!8i6656
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won't win, but here https://www.google.com/maps/@52.380836, ... 312!8i6656 is where the A14 / A604 diverged from the A1 near Alconbury before all this (M) stuff happened in the late '90s
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Here https://goo.gl/maps/sK1zhEXHtovo5Hoh9 in lane 1 of the eastbound A64 you can just make out a very faint arrow for straight on and left slip this was for the old link slip to the A1, the new A1(M) opened 1999 so this arrow is defunct over 20 years.
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Large chunks of the M6 from Warwickshire through the West Midlands into Staffordshire have remnants of many iterations of "burnt off" temporary markings.
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Aha! This bit of the ex-A92 near Tipperty still has its markings from the late 80s/early 90s. And it's technically still in use!

Though I suspect the markings on the B7076/8 from the A74 days will be older.
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This little cul-de-sac of the A229 toM2 J3 has some remnants of when this was first the Main A229 route in 1963 when it led to the J3 roundabout. The loop was added in 1983 when Bluebell Hill village was by-passed and this became the southbound exit to J3. Turning away from the loop the road bends right and meets the new link road built in 2002 when the M" was widened. The tarmac hasn't been touched here, squares on the 1963 era tarmac where former cats eyes were and the markings where the former bus stop was date back to 1983 when the Park and ride was first built
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I've just realised that I can beat my own example by about 8 years!

Waverley Road in Bournemouth ceased to have any useful existence in the mid-1980s, when the railway station area was redone and St Swithun's Road South was put through. Today, it is just a T-shaped turning area at the end of Cotlands Road.

Even so, you can still see the remains of the lane arrows, from when Waverley Road came out on Holdenhurst Road as part of the one-way system:
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Photo taken in 2007 but still faintly visible in July 2019 Street View, along with the turn left arrow out of Cotlands Road itself:
https://goo.gl/maps/CvrRQRSUdpnDm3MX7 (Google calls it Kilmarnock Road but that is nonsense!)
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can't remeber what year the short lived idea to make the entrance to Goosecroft Road bus & taxi only was, but the paint remains (at least, did back in July last time I was there).
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Truvelo wrote: Thu Oct 08, 2020 17:05 There are still plenty of temporary Gatso markings on motorways from the days when they were used in roadworks before Specs took over.
The M6 between Lancaster and Preston had frequent Gatso markings throughout the time that I lived in the north-west (1996-2007). I'm not sure that there were ever any Gatsos there, but there certainly weren't during the 11 years that I was using the road quite regularly.
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It is a shame it has to be on a public road, as there are some lovely old arrows on the blocked off and abandoned access to the Ramsgate Hoverport. Still easily accessible by foot down some steps behind the Viking longboat.

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Only defunct since 2011, some old KEEP CLEAR markings outside what used to be West Bar police station in Sheffield. They used to be there to enable police vehicles to get in and out more easily. It looks like the markings were refreshed around 2014/15, instead of being removed.

2011, just after the police station closed:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.38494 ... 6656?hl=en

2015, after the road had been resurfaced and the central island installed:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.38495 ... 6656?hl=en

2019:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.38493 ... 6656?hl=en
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I can give you an abandoned urban district on Teesside complete with road markings, street lamps and no entry signs.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.57581 ... 312!8i6656

The trees growing in the middle of the road are a bit of a give away.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.57602 ... 312!8i6656
This is less than a quarter of mile from the A66 dual carriageway

Redcar and Cleveland Council prefer development to take place on rural sites such as this at the junction of 2 overloaded S2 roads - go figure.
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Wolverhampton Council recently repainted road markings outside a school which moved ten years ago. Who didn't get the memo?

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