Road Markings

• Road markings provide visual information to road users to help control and regulate the flow of traffic.
• As with road signs, road markings help to keep you and other road users safe on the road and must be obeyed where required
• Road markings will be either yellow or white
• There are three types of road markings:

  1. regulatory
  2. warning
  3. guidance
• Regulatory road markings must be obeyed by law
• Warning road markings should be observed appropriately as they serve as warnings of hazardous driving conditions ahead
• Guidance road markings help guide your travel
• Every road user must respect the traffic regulations and standards, follow the signs, signals and instructions of the police officer and behave cautiously, so their conduct will not harm others, expose them to danger or block their movement.
• Rummble strips and speed humps are examples of regulatory road markings
• Geuidance road markings help drivers understand the paths vehicles should follow through intersections or roundabouts
• Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has allocated exclusive lanes for Dubai-registered public transport buses and taxis.
• The only other vehicles allowed to use the priority lanes for public transport buses and taxis are police cars, ambulances and other emergency services vehicles. Any driver caught illegally using these lanes will be fined.
• What marking is this?

  Tram line pedestrian crossing

  
• What marking is this?

  Zig-zag zone line

  
• Zig-zag zone line marking is used to inform drivers of specific zones where it is mandatory that they shall not stop or park their vehicles adjacent to the line marking,

  • except to give right of way to pedestrians and/or cyclists at a pedestrian and/or cyclist crossing,
  • or to stop behind such other vehicle(s) as are complying with this mandatory requirement
• Zig-zag zone line marking is used to inform drivers of specific zones where it is mandatory that they shall not change lines within such zig-zag sone, and it informs pedestrians and/or cyclists that they shall not cross a zig-zag zone except at pedestrian crossing.
• What road marking is this?

  Speed hump parking

  
• What road marking is this?

  Railway or tram level crossing ahead