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  • From: California - moved to North Carolina 2018
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Posted by DSchmitt on Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:54 PM

A "standard" modern highway lane is 12 feet wide (1.66 inches in HO scale)  You could use lanes as narrow as 10 feet (1.38 inches).A median island could be anywhare from about 1-foot wide (0.14 inches) to the same width as the lanes or more.  Dont forget outside shoulders, typically 4 feet to 8 feet wide.

The link below is to a Caltrans (Calif Dept of Transportation) manual that shows some typical Highway striping.  While rasied medians are not shown, the layouts with raised medians are similar.   

http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/signtech/mutcdsupp/pdf/CA-Chap3B.pdf#xml=http://dap1.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/search/pdfhi.txt?query=pavement+markings&db=db&pr=www&prox=page&rorder=500&rprox=500&rdfreq=500&rwfreq=500&rlead=500&sufs=0&order=r&cq=&id=455eb18f19

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road construction
Posted by GP&B_RR on Sunday, November 19, 2006 5:45 AM
Can anybody help new road constuction 4 lane hwy with separating inland & left turn lanes. What are the ho scale 1/87 measurements. You can email to marr6213@yahoo.com Thanks for your help

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