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trainspotter-usa
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 Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject: Highway Blues |
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How wide is a road?
I'm making a start on the road bridge for the new layout and I've cut my bridge deck at a scale 6 metres wide. That's just over 1/2". I think 3 metres per lane is about right (9'9"). Trouble is everything in T STILL looks so small if you don't have a frame of reference. If I had a couple of cars I could pop them on the road and say. "That looks right". At the moment. I look at the bridge deck and say "No way"...
Ian
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rmyers
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:54 pm Post subject: Re: Highway Blues |
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| trainspotter-usa wrote: | How wide is a road?
I'm making a start on the road bridge for the new layout and I've cut my bridge deck at a scale 6 metres wide. That's just over 1/2". I think 3 metres per lane is about right (9'9"). Trouble is everything in T STILL looks so small if you don't have a frame of reference. If I had a couple of cars I could pop them on the road and say. "That looks right". At the moment. I look at the bridge deck and say "No way"... |
Ian,
The answer is 'it depends'. Where, when, how heavily traveled, what kind of use.
A good modern standard for the US is 12' per lane minimum. A major street near me is four 10' lanes, and it's very tight and nothing over a B plate (say 3/4 ton pickup or van) is allowed. Large vehicles in the US are 8' 6" wide.
However, a rural road in Japan (like your layout) might be narrower -- smaller vehicles, less traffic.
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B 67
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:36 am Post subject: |
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I made the roads on my layout by doing what 'looked' right. I did not have any 1:450 scale cars to help, but I did have the sheet of road markings by Eishindo. Now that I have the cars, it seems some of my lanes are rather generous - especially by Japanese standards. However, I can make the alterations where needed.
One thing that may help is to use the width of the trains as a guide. For a narrow road, the lane/s can be about the width of a train. A truck is close to the width of a train, so it works out close.
Although it is not always obvious, lanes on high-speed roads are often about twice the width of an average car.
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