CATS EYES

[The Fat Controller]

is it just me or has anyone else noticed the lack of cats eyes in the road.the roads i travel mostly are between ELY and SWINDON or BANBURY throughBICESTER,BEDFORD and MILTON KEYNES.
i know that the brains among us(mr muddy,btm,thrasher and the like)could explain how they work but can any one tell me where they have gone.
next time you go out at night notice how many dead ones there are and how much feed back you get from the road.
i'm not moaning but it could help answer the question about why the car in front keeps hitting the kerb when cars are coming towards it and why its speed changes dramaticaly from straight road to bend

[petergalileo]

FAO : Cambridgeshire, bedfordshire, Oxfordshire and...erm swindonshire ? county council

From Dept of transport

Dear Sirs,
  Due to a vast overspend on roundabout maintenance in Milton Keynes and the painting of quadruple yellow lines country wide it is now required that you cut your road maintenance spending with immediate effect.  May we suggest that you now stop the routine cleaning of cats eyes on your roads and start our new programme called MCFM.  More Carrots For Motorists is a new innitiative where by a stall is set up at all major junctions to serve drivers with free carrots.  We have found this to be a much cheaper option than the routine cleaning of cats eyes.

We are also at this time looking into Large springs to be placed under the drivers posterior so that potholes need not be repaired.  Also large capacity floodlight hats so that street lights can be removed, but at this time we have not found a suitable power source as the original idea was to use solar panels.  

Your sincerely
Sec state for transport

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[Sheddy]

I seem to remember that there was a news article in the BBC website telling that Cats-eyes were to be removed from unlit roads in order to reduce traffic speed and therefore accidents.  Apparently cats-eyes allow us to drive faster by letting us see the middle of the road, by removing this benefit we would be more cautios.

All right for the majority, but some of us were taught to be cautios!!

[colintandy]

:D ran out of dead cats maybe :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

[Neil Jones]

I think cats eyes are trophies taken by every boy scout that has ever done a night hike!!

[Arightpest]

Didn’t the bloke invent them to stop accidents on unlit and foggy roads it was that type of conditions that gave him is brain wave in the first place :?

[V8MoneyPit]

:D ran out of dead cats maybe :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

It always makes me cringe when I see a sign reading 'Cats eyes removed'
 :shock:  :lol:

[p4203]

no wonder there are so many run over they can't see the traffic lol :D  :D

[isle of man]

very few cats eye roads here because of the races.



peter henry

[Bush Tucker Man]

Didn’t the bloke invent them to stop accidents on unlit and foggy roads it was that type of conditions that gave him is brain wave in the first place :?

And the Cat sitting in the road :lol:

I've read in a Yorkshire Industries & Inventions book was supposed to have been the reflection off the tram-lines in his native Halifax

i know that the brains among us(mr muddy,btm,thrasher and the like)could explain how they work

As you requested....

[Evilgoat]

Didn’t the bloke invent them to stop accidents on unlit and foggy roads it was that type of conditions that gave him is brain wave in the first place :?

And the Cat sitting in the road :lol:

I've read in a Yorkshire Industries & Inventions book was supposed to have been the reflection off the tram-lines in his native Halifax

I seem to recall the story about a cat  :?

[oakeedokee]

Apparently cats-eyes allow us to drive faster by letting us see the middle of the road, by removing this benefit we would be more cautios.

..and if we had a huge spike sticking out of the centre of the steering wheel that would slow us all down a bit too.

[Bush Tucker Man]

and if we had a huge spike sticking out of the centre of the steering wheel that would slow us all down a bit too.

As is so often said; the only bit of a vehicle that cannot be allowed for by engineers, traffic-laws, or weather conditions is the nut behind the wheel

[muddyjames]

Didn’t the bloke invent them to stop accidents on unlit and foggy roads it was that type of conditions that gave him is brain wave in the first place :?

Nope.

Cats eyes were invented in WW2. As all cars had to have those black out caps on them drivers fond it hard to se where they were going and one driver suddenly saw a cats eyes reflecting back at him. So using cats eyes in theroad drivers in WW2 at night with their mainly blacked out headlights could see the road ahead.

Useless bit of info for you!

[discodaz]

The factory was on the road to Queensbury from Boothtown in Halifax,
I'm sure it was the reflection of the light in a cats eyes that gave the inventor the idea.
In Wakefield they have been trialing (seems like forever now) high intensity cats eyes on Barnsley Road,that reflect back from further away.
Seems to me that the removal of cats eyes from any unlit road is up there in the stupidity stakes with "pace drivers" diligentley doing 20mph in a 30mph zone & driving everyone else crazy!!!