Crazy road markings in Mexico. How not to go crazy?! (5 photos + 1 video)

Poor Mexicans! How not to go crazy with all these arrows?





Crazy road markings on Highway 150 in Mexico.

Just do not show the photos and videos from this publication to our traffic police officers and those responsible for road markings on our roads. And what good, they will adopt the experience of their Mexican colleagues. After all, we also have enough mountain serpentines with sharp turns. And then you and I will also rush from row to row in search of our lane.

I had to drive along different mountain roads. With right-hand traffic - in Crimea and the Caucasus. Left-handed - in Thailand and India. But a highway on which the direction of travel constantly changes from right to left and vice versa is just some kind of madness!

Can you imagine if, in addition to these arrows that are incomprehensible at first glance, suddenly an oncoming car jumps out from around the corner, also driving in its own lane? How can we leave here? You need to go left, judging by the arrows, but she also needs to change lanes:



An oncoming car on Highway 150 in Mexico.

It’s good that the Mexican road services made such a mockery of drivers only on one single highway No. 150 between the cities of Tehuacán and Orizaba.

Although why did they immediately “make fun of”? After all, it’s probably not just that such a non-standard solution was invented.





Highway 150 in Mexico.

Highway No. 150 is a mountain serpentine with sharp turns about 150 kilometers long. Trucks could not negotiate these turns without entering the oncoming lane. And because of this, there were a lot of accidents here.

So the road workers decided to officially allow such driving into oncoming traffic. Well, we drew a lot of arrows so that the cars could move away safely.



Two cars in the same lane, going in different directions. Highway 150 in Mexico.

And what do you think? It worked! There are much fewer accidents.

Of course, such road markings with a change in direction of travel are not found along the entire length of Highway No. 150, but only on its sharpest turns. And, of course, local drivers are already accustomed to these markings.

But even an experienced driver who takes this road for the first time, it seems to me, will be confused at first.



Highway 150 in Mexico.

A truck driver from Mexico posted a large video of himself driving along Highway 150. I have selected for you some of the most interesting and revealing moments from there and made a short video.

The music in the video is not mine, if anything. This is what that driver listened to on the road. So don't be angry!