It'll never catch on here of course. This, however, is very very clever and creative...
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Icelandic 3D Zebra Crossing
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This thread should be moved to 'International Roads', surely?
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Quite... go for it mods, I thought the same the moment I clicked on Submit.
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Re: Icelandic 3D Zebra Crossing
No. Stay I say. The post is about an interesting idea that happens to be in Iceland & not about a specific road in Iceland.
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But the forum is called 'British and Irish Roads'. This is neither a British nor an Irish road, but an Icelandic one.85CF380 wrote:No. Stay I say. The post is about an interesting idea that happens to be in Iceland & not about a specific road in Iceland.
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if you want a topic to be moved, report it to us. Don’t complain in the thread itself.
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I agree with where you moved it and was thinking earlier that it should be there not in the international section.AndyB wrote:if you want a topic to be moved, report it to us. Don’t complain in the thread itself.
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Aaaanyway...
I really like the way this looks - the effect is amazing, actually, when seen from the right direction.
Is it a road safety thing, though, or just an impressive visual effect?
I really like the way this looks - the effect is amazing, actually, when seen from the right direction.
Is it a road safety thing, though, or just an impressive visual effect?
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In Iceland they're building 3D crossings, in the UK we're building 2D flyovers! 
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If you know that that is what a crossing looks like then fine but I can just see somebody getting rear ended because they thought that it was a real obstruction and doing an emergency stop.Chris5156 wrote:Aaaanyway...
I really like the way this looks - the effect is amazing, actually, when seen from the right direction.
Is it a road safety thing, though, or just an impressive visual effect?
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It's a waste of paint.
Firstly, it will work at best for each driver once only. Once they know what it is, it'll be just another crossing, no different from the standard stripes-only type.
Secondly, if this is not a one-way street, it will not work from the reverse direction. Do we know whether there is one-way or two-way traffic here?
And Piatkow has mentioned the possible accident risk. Sorry, this is just someone being clever-clever, and I can see it being replaced with a normal crossing pretty quickly.
Firstly, it will work at best for each driver once only. Once they know what it is, it'll be just another crossing, no different from the standard stripes-only type.
Secondly, if this is not a one-way street, it will not work from the reverse direction. Do we know whether there is one-way or two-way traffic here?
And Piatkow has mentioned the possible accident risk. Sorry, this is just someone being clever-clever, and I can see it being replaced with a normal crossing pretty quickly.
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Re: Icelandic 3D Zebra Crossing
We see a car traveling over it from the "wrong" side, so it appears to be a two-way road.
The moment where the bike is crossing it and another bike is going down the road was a right mind-screw.
It is an interesting concept, but I think that if a football containing a pentagon would be so distracting it would cause an accident, a crossing that appears as a 3D object rising from the road would be unthinkable.
(It is a cool effect though, perhaps this would work on a private technology park with a one way system and be in keeping with the modern art feel)
The moment where the bike is crossing it and another bike is going down the road was a right mind-screw.
It is an interesting concept, but I think that if a football containing a pentagon would be so distracting it would cause an accident, a crossing that appears as a 3D object rising from the road would be unthinkable.
(It is a cool effect though, perhaps this would work on a private technology park with a one way system and be in keeping with the modern art feel)