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My friend and I were passing through Sterling when we saw the road jaws in the street.\u00a0 Zig-zagged lanes for a brief stretch in the road, before everything went back to normal.\u00a0 Naturally, this elicited a WTF reaction from me.<\/span><\/p>\n Was this the result of a drunk lane striper?\u00a0 Was it trying to scare drivers for some reason?\u00a0 All I knew is that it felt like the lanes were trying to eat us, and that we needed to get the fuck out of those lanes as soon as humanly possible.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clearly, this provoked enough curiosity to where I put forth the effort to look it up.\u00a0 Zig-zagged lanes apparently originated in Great Britain as a manner of visually attempting to snap commuters out of their daze of monotony and boredom of driving, to alert them that a crosswalk is approaching, and to be mindful of people crossing the road.\u00a0 A safety measure, so to speak.<\/span><\/p>\n And since so many Americans who are UK-aboos who think if it\u2019s British, it\u2019s Better, for whatever reason, this methodology was incorporated into this stretch of road in of all places, Sterling.\u00a0 And frankly, I can\u2019t say it\u2019s the least bit effective.\u00a0 It got my attention sure, but like I said, it felt like road jaws was trying to eat our car, and instead of slowing down approaching the crosswalk, I\u2019d have felt more compelled to speed up in order to get out of road jaws\u2019 teeth.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure more people would be distracted at following the zigs and the zags in the lines than the human beings they\u2019re running over.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, it might actually work had Sterling Boulevard actually put up any sort of sign or notification to reinforce the idea that a crosswalk is coming.\u00a0 I know the vast majority of people are stupid and\/or do not read English, but believe it or not, people do look at signs.\u00a0 There\u2019s a Pavlov analogy in this scenario, but only because it\u2019s incorrect; road jaws are clearly the bell used to accompany the presentation of the food (caution signs) which caused the dog to drool, but in the case of Sterling, no food was ever presented, and now the dogs are wondering why the fuck people are ringing bells in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n What ever happened to rumble strips?\u00a0 They still use those in Georgia.\u00a0 At least when I see rumble strips, I\u2019m more apt to either brake to minimize the impact, or at least take my foot off the gas; both reactions aptly fitting the description of provoking deceleration, instead of acceleration.\u00a0 Road jaws just make me want to speed up so I don\u2019t feel like the asphalt is going to eat me and the last thing on my mind is that a crosswalk is approaching.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My friend and I were passing through Sterling when we saw the road jaws in the street.\u00a0 Zig-zagged lanes for a brief stretch in the road, before everything went back to normal.\u00a0 Naturally, this elicited a WTF reaction from me. Was this the result of a drunk lane striper?\u00a0 Was it trying to scare drivers … Continue reading Beware the road jaws<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,15,10,27,49],"class_list":["post-34881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-traffic","tag-virginia","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34883,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34881\/revisions\/34883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}