Textured Street Intersections

[MAX-24-Dean]

To me this is just more taxpayer dollars to "save us from ourselves". Safety has become an out of control byword in many industries because of liability.

This doesn't relate to the paving job, but the interesting part of the liability culture is that the markup on new items is based on percentage a lot of the time. The more safety equipment that can be added to an item the higher the profit margin.
Follow the dollars.

 

[jyoutz]

Those engraved rumble strips hold water and the freeze/thaw in the winter creates potholes.

 

[Runner]

Here is a piccy:

Here is what I think is going on. These streets have been here forever and the driveways of the businesses on the four corners are not built to current standards, i.e., they are very close to the intersection. I don't think this is because of the intersection, I think this is intended (somehow) to keep people going through the intersection from running into people pulling out of the adjacent drive approaches from the businesses.

Only thing I can come up with.

Or, maybe braille for blind drivers....

OK, one more thought - if you look close at the pic. you can see tire marks where rednecks and kids like to do donuts in the intersection. Maybe they're trying to prevent that.

 

[paulsharvey]

Just looking at the picture; it's all past the stop bar, so maybe it's a unique/test to keep people from proceeding into the intersection past the stop bar?


Edit; closer inspection, I would almost put money on it being a wrong way driver alert system. See how it's not crossing the exit to the intersection for the call it west bound, traffic. If I had to guess; t
with as wide as the asphalt is, with not traffic separator or gour area, they must have had problems with left turns and straight through using it like a 4 lane intersection

 

[Runner]

they must have had problems with left turns and straight through using it like a 4 lane intersection

That definitely happens, especially in the direction the photo is taken. The road is two lanes, plus a left turn lane in the middle. The straight lane is really wide and people are always "lane sharing" the straight lane to turn right.

Don't see how the texture would help that situation?

 

[paulsharvey]

That definitely happens, especially in the direction the photo is taken. The road is two lanes, plus a left turn lane in the middle. The straight lane is really wide and people are always "lane sharing" the straight lane to turn right.

Don't see how the texture would help that situation?

It would alert people that they aren't where they are supposed to be. Same deal really as Rubble strips at a center yellow or white edge line; "hey, dumby, you're leaving your lane"