I’ve noticed this in pictures from accross asia, including india, singapore, and myannmar. This doesn’t exist in European or American road signage systems.
There are 48 countries in Asia.
It’s so you know how big the building is
https://tepetelegrams.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/gt14_k1025_p66_7209.jpg
Define Asian. I live in “Asia” and have never seen this.
Sigh, in the United States everything west of Los Angeles is “asia”.
That’s great news! I don’t need to buy an expensive plane ticket to Asia, because I’m already there.
The huge sign behind the curb seems to say “Singapore”, so that narrows it down a bit.
My guess is that it makes it easier for drivers to detect bends in the road, as the stripes are painted at equal widths, so you can visually tell in your peripheral vision when the road is starting to slope a corner.
I’ve skimmed through some Singapore’s road guidelines and driver’s handbook and didn’t find any particular significance of kerb paining, from the context I inferred that striped kerb is painted that way just to be visually distinct, to be noticeable. Significant markings are made on the road alongside the kerb, like those two yellow stripes mean “no parking at all times”.
Interesting! In Cairo (probably all of egypt) it’s the same, just different colors
In Indonesia, they are painted black and white stripes like that to increase visibility. Heck, Jakarta used to paint them using colorful palette a while back, but recently went back to black and white. I personally prefer them to use colorful paints instead of just black and white, especially in urban areas where everything is grey already.
I saw something like that in Israel, it’s like yellow lines in the UK, it tells you where you can park.
You picked a picture of outside a prison…
It could just mean “no parking” and not be on every curb
The double yellow lines indicate no
parkingstopping. I think the stripes are mostly for visibility.Source: Am driver in SG.
I dunno…I’m pretty sure it’s a Rison
Zebra crossing
how do the zebras know to cross there??
They simply recognize their ancestors buried there.
Simple, it’s stripped black and white.
Tl;dr can I park my van in front of this Singaporean prison and for how long until I attract attention?
In my country (Morocco)
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Red/white curbs: No parking, usually found in intersection where parking could block the view from other drivers.
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Straight continuous line by the curb: Not allowed to stop there (say for a quick errand)
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Straight or double continuous straight lines in the middle: Not allowed to do a “U” turn. Generally, Straight lines should not be crossed.
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Going off this India traffic police site same as a white curb. High visibility marking the edge of the road.
In my country there are two combinations:
White & black = it’s ok to park
Yellow & black = no parkingOhh I see, that’s clever it didn’t occur to me that it could have a msaning
Since at least some legitimate answers are already in, I will just say that I’ve noticed this as well from playing GeoGuessr, and it is definitely limited to only a few countries, I believe mostly in SEA.
Ahh yeah, good to know that I’m not the only one who noticed this
