Are red chips actually meant to mean anything?
I see them used for plenty of things from cycle and bus lanes to pavements and even a raised table near me!
I’m not convinced contractors aren’t just using a dartboard to decide what colour to use.
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Red Chips
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Posted 5 years ago #
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I think that in very general terms, coloured surfacing is used to indicate something special/different about the area so-surfaced, but it's the road lining and associated Traffic Regulation Orders (where relevant) that are the official indication to their purpose/restriction.
There is no requirement to make cycle or bus lanes a different colour, but obviously it helps with visibility (similar for hatched areas on roads to protect turning lanes or traffic islands, or indeed, sometimes, speed humps).
Once upon a time, Edinburgh made cycle lanes pink/red, and bus lanes (greenways), green.
Also way back then, Glasgow decided to make cycle lanes green and bus lanes pink. At the time I did wonder what would happen if ever cycle lanes in
StrathclydeandLothianwere to eventually meet up? (Somewhere there must be a similar salt-and-vinegar, salt-and-sauce watershed?)I was around when Glasgow was thinking of what colours to use: apparently the permitted (or available) colours also include yellow (has been used on semi-raised pedestrian crossings in Shawlands in Glasgow), beige (as used for anti-skid surfacing) or blue (as in København, but felt to be politically inadvisable for Glasgow).
Posted 5 years ago # -
@davecykl
blue (as in København, but felt to be politically inadvisable for Glasgow).:-)
But were bus greenways ok as buses on them were mainly orange? One cancelled out the other (and one was under a bus?)
Posted 5 years ago # -
My error.
Of course Glasgow's orange buses were on red 'greenways'.
Cyclists on green. (There is at least one cycling green path in Edinburgh from underground parking on Semple St.)Posted 5 years ago #
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