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vary rom Community to Community, some ranging from a 6 Loot dash
to 30 feet between. I have made rather e:teansive inquiries of the
Provincial Highways Departrent crews and chey aszure me that as

the dashes and spaces are now metered it would be no problem to
change the metered distances to whatever seened practical, f

am therefore proposing that the dash and space be a uniform 20

feet long on all Provincial Highways and that all Municipalities
in our Province adopt a simiiar uniform spacing in dighway marking.
The 20 foot distance was arrived at as a figure relative to the ,
approximately length of an American or Canadian Car. The lines
have to be painted regardlass, why not do it in a uniform manner
that can greatly assist drivers in tudging distance. I have
personally tried this method assuming that the dash and space

were a car length. It doesn't take very long to be able to

adjust to this method of judging distance.

On winding roads or solid lines a small cross-bar can

be painted every 40 feet. I undexstand this can be achieved by

simply attaching another spray mechanism to the already existing

spray machines.

As a point of interest, of all the people that I
questioned only one person knew the "space - dash" length on
Provincial Highways, none wera aware of the length from area

area and without exception each person thought it was a good

idea.