Road Safety

Broken line : Broken lines are permissive in character and may be crossed with discretion, if traffic permits.

Solid lines are restrictive in character and indicate that crossing is not permitted except for entry or exit from a side road.

Double solid lines indicate maximum restrictions and are not be crossed except in emergent usage.

In a combination of broken and solid lines, a solid line may be crossed, with discretion, if the broken line is nearer to the direction of travel. Vehicle from the apposite directions are not permitted to cross the solid line

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a AND b SHALL DEPEND UPON APPLICATION c, d AND e EACH EQUAL TO 100, W=100 FOR RURAL AREAS, W=150 URBAN AREAS (For a, b, refer below table.)

Sr.No	Description	Location		Details of Markings
			Colour	Type	Width (cm)	Length of line segment (m)	Length of gap (m)
A.	LINE MARKINGS					(a)	(b)
1.	Centre Line	(a) Rural
		(i) Straight reaches
		-NH/SH/-	White	Broken single	10	3.0	6.0
		-Others	White	-do-	10	3.0	4.5
		(ii) Curves & approaches to intersection.
		-NH/SH/-	White	Broken single	10	3.0	3.0
		-Others	White	-do-	10	3.0	3.0
		(b) Urban
		(i) Less than 4 lanes
		-Straight reaches	White	-do-	15	3.0	4.5
		-Curves & approaches to intersections	White	-do-	15	3.0	3.0
		(ii) Four lanes or more undivided	White(optionally yellow)	Solid single or double	1510+10	----	----
2.	Traffic lane line	(a) Rural
		(i) Straight reaches	White	Broken single	10	3	6
		(ii) Curves and approaches to intersection	White	Broken single (Exceptionally solid)	10	3	3
		(b) Urban
		(i) Straight reaches	White	As above	10	1.5	3
		(ii) Curves and approaches to intersections	White	As above	10	1.5	1.5
3	No overtaking Zone		Yellow	Solid single or solid double or solid & broken	10	As for centre line
4	Warning line	All locations	White	Broken single	Equal to the normal preced-ing lines
5.	Border or edge line	All locations	White	Solid	15 or 20	-	-
6.	Bus lane	All locations	White	Solid	25	-	-
7.	Bicycle lane	All locations	White	Solid	15	-	-
8.	Stop line	(a) Rural	White	Transverse solid single or double	30 or 20+20	-	-
		(b) Urban	-do-	-do-	20 or20+20
9.	Give way lines	All locations	White	Transverse broken	20+20	0.60	0.30
10.	Continuity lines	(a) Centre line & lane lines	White	Transverse broken	As on approaches to intersections
		(b) Median & Island line	White	broken single	10	0.60	0.30
11		(c) Stop line & give way line	White	Transverse broken single	10	0.60	0.30
		(d) Turn markings	White	Broken Single	10	0.50	0.50
B) OTHER MARKINGS
1	Pedestrian crossing	All locations	White	Zebra Stripes	50 cm wide stripes 50 cm apart 2 m to 4 m long
2.	Cycle Track crossings	All locations	White	Solid	10 cm
3	Speed change lane	All locations	White	Solid lines with diaonals/ chevrons	60 cm wide diagonals/chevrons 15 cm wide lines
4.	Directional arrows	All locations	White	Arrows	3.5 cm or 5m long
5.	Protected right turn lanes	All locations	Yellow	Diagonals enclosed by solid lines	15 Size variable as per site conditions
6	Markings at rotaries	All locations	White/ Yellow	Broken solid	Size variable as per site conditions
7	Box marking	All locations	Yellow	Crossed diagonals enclosed by solid lines	10
8	Carriageway Width Transition	All locations	White	Solid single	15	-
9	Obstruction Approach Marking	All locations	Yellow	Diagonals/ Chevrons enclosed by solid lines	15
10	Road Rail level crossing	All locations	White/Yellow	Combination of stop line, Centre line & lane lines
11	Parking Spaces	All locations	White	Broken	10/5	-	-
12	Parking Restrictions	All locations	Yellow	Solid	10	-	-
13.	Bus Stops	All locations	White	Broken	10	1m	1m
14.	Word Messages	All locations	White	Alphabets, numerals & aporstophesize as per Plates II & III.
15	Object markings	All locations	Black and White or Black and Yellow	Alternate stripes widths varying for different usages
16	Speed Breakers	All locations	White	Elongated Triangles