The corner of Doonkuna and Donaldson Streets

It is actually part of the governments NO WASTE(on roads,health etc)BY 2010 strategy which requires that all maintenance can now only be done using leftover paint.

Only a matter of time before you see new roads which are just dirt painted black.

ABC129 said :

I thought they were there to act as a visual barrier, but not an actual one. The idea being that people would realise that it was an intersection rather than just rolling through like it was a straight bit of road.
Either way, they’re annoying. They used to have a concrete version of this on the intersection of Dudley st and Cotter Rd until people complained about it and they put in traffic lights.

That makes sense to me because there is no reason that you shouldn’t turn right or go straight ahead at that intersection – you have clear vision both ways and it’s not dangerous in any other sense.

Maybe they’re to discourage people from coming up alongside someone already turning? As a small car owner I know it can be pretty frustrating to have someone pull up beside me and block my view of the oncoming traffic.

It means don’t speed or your car will spear off into someone’s garden, burst into flames, and you, your family, the owner of the garden, their family, their mother’s brother’s roomate and her kindy teacher will all be killed.

I thought they were there to act as a visual barrier, but not an actual one. The idea being that people would realise that it was an intersection rather than just rolling through like it was a straight bit of road.
Either way, they’re annoying. They used to have a concrete version of this on the intersection of Dudley st and Cotter Rd until people complained about it and they put in traffic lights.

Crossing unbroken white lines twice on a long weekend. How many points?

Aahhh… nothing says dignified banter like translated rap…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6H0i1RAdHk

Bicycle safety zones?

They’re all through Griffith as well.

They are burnout pads.

Fo shizzle kizzle my nizzle.

Just wanted to say that 🙂

(Translated that says “Kizzle, my dear freind, I hear what you are saying, and I wholeheartedly agree”)

Anyway – I always thought that they were weird, Mrs Danman and I have asked eachother what the deal is with this intersection. We usually just drive over the top of them, as do most people we observe.

However, who ever is passenger at the time holds full rights to say “You just failed your P’s test”

🙂

They are burnout pads.

If it was supposed to indicate “no right turn:, wouldn’t a simple sign saying “no right turn” suffice as it does everywhere else?

I dislike the idea of having our road signage devised by a cryptologist.

As aussiegal suggested, email the RTA and see if anyone there knows.

I would guess it’s an attempt for no right turns, maybe on a ACT Govt minimalistic approach? It’s not valid without the signs anyway.

Can we subit it to the RTA for an answer?

I asked a driving instructor once, he said that they were put in place to get people to slow down at that intersection. As there are no signs preventing turns, you can go whichever way you want, you’re just not supposed to drive over the painted island.

Deckard said :

Segway refuge?

Sounds like a good song.
It’s where all the Segway’s go to get away from their abusive riders.

It’s a bit of a worry that nobody seems to know what they mean.

The whole idea of traffic rules is that there is an agreed-upon code of conduct. If people don’t understand the road markings then surely chaos will ensue. It’s actually dangerous.

Whether it’s the administrators’ fault or our own fault, the result will be equally disastrous. It is in the interests of community safety that this sort of information be broadly disseminated.

Segway refuge?

Pedestrian refuge.

Implication is left turn only, but without signposting it effectively means go left, right or straight ahead, but drive around the unbroken lines.

Actually, lobster may have a valid point.

If the gub’mint decides to implement it’s own forms of traffic control without actually bothering to notify the public, are we liable if we don’t do what the gub’mint wants us to do there? We’re not psychic, after all, and there was certainly no such thing as these pseudo-islands when I went for my license.

I thought it was meant to suggest no straight ahead as well. I used to go straight ahead through it though when I did deliveries in the area as there was no sign.
Honest officer, I didn’t know.

Looks like some kind of funky sundial