I remember a few, probably 5+ years ago, reading that there was a shortage of one of the materials used to make painted lane lines reflective. Well, last night was one of those nights in the DC/Baltimore area where such would be helpful - it's obviously late November, so people are commuting home after dark, and it'd been raining fairly heavily since at least mid morning, to the point where there wasn't really standing water on the roads, but that thin layer that makes it just a little shiny. Well, even though I was driving my E92 335i which has what seem to be fairly decent headlamps out of the box, the only roads on which I could easily see the lanes were those that had little reflectors actually embedded in the asphalt. I and clearly many other drivers were clearly struggling to see the painted lane lines and in some cases they actually appeared shiny black, not yellow or white.
Is there still a shortage, or is this just a sign that the lane markings haven't been renewed in far too long?
Is there still a shortage, or is this just a sign that the lane markings haven't been renewed in far too long?