In this country, perfect the road.
Australia can be called a country with perfect roads. Ideal here absolutely all roads, including dirt.
Road markings, signage and roadside infrastructure are also at a high level, which can be called a benchmark. Further impressions of the single traveller, acquainting us with the Australian roads.
1. First and most importantly. All the roads in Australia are awesome. Perfect road surface, excellent visibility, the layout is everywhere, even if to the nearest town 200 km security zone, the zone of overtaking, picnic areas — all organized through strict intervals and always marked one hundred and fifty times.
2. Perfect even coats! Primers in Australia is not enough and you won’t believe, but it is safe to “throw” more than 100 km/hour.
3. Moreover, even the speed limit signs are. Moreover, 50 is a rarity, it’s about the tavern. But in 90 or 110! On the primer!
4. If there is a closed turn or junction of roads in advance will surely stand the red sign “Reduce speed”!
5. After each settlement the information sign with the distance to the next town and to the big city. This is important information, because the filling here is only in the cities and the driver should always know how much he should go to the nearest town.
6. The famous signs warning about the possible access to the expensive wild animals. Somewhere is a kangaroo and the ostrich, somewhere cattle.
7. Another unusual and unfamiliar to us as a sign — indicator of fire risk. Such signs can be seen across the country and their every day (and sometimes several times a day) road workers manually moving the arrow in accordance with the situation. The fact that the fires for Australia is a real problem, especially in hot period.
8. By the way, in Australia frequent private roads. Which, of course, travel is prohibited. Of course, this is not the side of the road or roads between cities. Usually, it’s adjacent to the highway road leading either to someone’s ranch or to the company or to the mine, or on private property. Barriers, as a rule, no, but if you go down this road, it will mean the invasion of private property.
9. Lighting. Almost all the junctions, side roads or the branching of the lit. Moreover, even far from settlements.
10. The markup on Australian roads, with reflective effect. Moreover, it is not just the paint, and a special technology on which the separating strip is embedded such that the reflective angles
11. In Australia there are many warning signs. I mean, who warn that there will be this sign here. Ahead the speed limit ahead sign yield ahead sign “Children”. All made to make you noticed and advance slowed. Just to be safe.
12. But I especially liked the organization of traffic on the highways. To say that they almost no traffic — nothing to say. Traffic is really little. Therefore, to build wide roads with two lanes in each direction effectively. Therefore, many highways have one lane in each direction. But regularly they organized zone of overtaking, because here quite often go huge road trains, to overtake which is sometimes problematic and downright dangerous. So at some point you see a sign that warns drivers of slow cars, so he took the left, because the front area of overtaking. You see, that starts the intermittent on the left lane?
13. At the end of this zone is a warning sign that the zone of overtaking ends and you need to take the right.
14. A sign announcing that the two lanes became one.
15. Another version of the zone of overtaking. Is also very cool. See intermittent and in front of trailer 4 trailer. And we don’t know we will have time to overtake or not: suddenly close and closed turn? The day can still be seen, and at night definitely not. But here is a table that says that the length of the overtaking zones of 5 km, it is safe to overtake, if you can not see oncoming headlights.
16. Area overtaking starts in 300 meters. All getting ready)
17. Area the overtaking lane ends in 500 feet.
18. Railroad crossings. Too much warning in advance. Attention, ahead of the move.
19. Here is the place to stop before crossing. You see the move? He is far away! They stop really for 100 meters! And rightly so, to not be tempted to slip quickly.
20.But the move only here! Of course, it’s perfect. And if there is no prohibiting signal, it can be safely held at a speed greater than 100 km/h.
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21. Well, another cool feature of Australian roads, though not related to roads — free coffee at petrol stations for drivers who have filled up a full tank. Well, why not? The cost is cheap, the cost of gasoline fueled will cover it. But the driver is nice and will sleep less want.
