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Greetings, I was a traffic painter for over ten years. Real traffic lines are four inches wide. Double yellow is four inch yellow with three inch in between,either black or unpainted and another four inch yellow. Broken lane lines are passing areas,and solid lane lines are no passing zones. The white line at left turn bays are eight inches in width. Glass beads that are sprinkled onto the wet paint to give it reflective qualities,which gives the paint a slightly darker color. These beads are perfectly round and is about the size of fine sand. Solid yellow is on the fast lane or left side of highway when divided,and white solid line on the right or shoulder. These are three to four inches. No passing signs are on the left side of highway in the direction you are traveling. These are shaped like an elongated triangle turned sideways with the point turned toward highway. This is just a sample of rules traffic painters use,which is nationwide. I would recommend using masking tape,and get your curves with string started with an oversize arc and slowly pulled in from one lane line to the other. We used rope when pulling in curves. The real sizes of the lane lines I gave you can be figured in ho scale. HO concrete barriers can be purchased to divide the highway if a more modern time period is used. Colored ceramic buttons are sometimes used in areas that don`t use snowplows,unless they are installed below surface which is expensive and a fairly new practice. If I haven`t touched on what you need,just tell me what you want to do and I`ll give you more info. I can also answer any questions about traffic signs. Gerald
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