"the Turkish army would be able to find 200 Van cats, let alone poison them, is utter nonsense"". Van cat Van cats (; , Western Armenian: ""Vana gadou""; ) are a distinctive landrace of domestic cat, found in the Lake Van region of eastern Turkey. They are relatively large, have a chalky white coat, sometimes with ruddy coloration on the head and hindquarters, and have blue or amber eyes or are odd-eyed (having one eye of each colour). The variety has been referred to as ""the swimming cat"", and observed to swim in Lake Van. The naturally occurring Van cat"
"Cat's eye (road) A cat's eye is a retroreflective safety device used in road marking and was the first of a range of raised pavement markers. The cat's eye design originated in the UK in 1934 and is today used all over the world. The original form consisted of two pairs of reflective glass spheres set into a white rubber dome, mounted in a cast-iron housing. This is the kind that marks the centre of the road, with one pair of cat's eyes showing in each direction. A single-ended form has become widely used in other colours at road margins"
"yellow lines every 10 metres. Before speed bumps, a series of cat’s eyes are placed shining white to the oncoming traffic and red to the car from the opposite direction. On pedestrian crossings, blue shining cat’s eyes are placed after every zebra line. On roads with traffic lights, a series of red shining cat’s eyes are placed 50 metres before traffic lights to make drivers slow down. In the morning of 25 April 1999 on the M3 motorway in Hampshire, England, a van dislodged the steel body of a cat's eye which flew through the windscreen of a following car"
"roads is white or yellow cat's eyes along the centre of the road (indicating whether or not overtaking is permitted) and red dots along the hard shoulder or edge of the road. Occasionally single blue cat's eyes are used to indicate the location of things such as hydrants, and green cat's eyes are used to mark the edge of culverts. In rural settings and along State Highways, these markings are augmented by retro reflective posts along the edge of the road (white reflectors on the left, yellow reflectors on the right). Bridges are similarly marked with retro reflective markings in"
"Design Quest organised by the BBC and the Design Museum, a list which included Concorde, Mini, Supermarine Spitfire, K2 telephone box, World Wide Web and the AEC Routemaster bus. These units are not very visible in daylight and are generally used in conjunction with traditionally painted lines. Temporary cat's eyes with just a reflective strip are often used during motorway repair work. These are typically day glow green/yellow so they are easily visible in daylight as well as in darkness, they can then be used on their own for lane division. Also seen during motorway repair work are plastic traffic"
"the standard white light to amber for four seconds after the passing of a vehicle, or red if the following vehicle is too close or traffic ahead is stationary. In Ireland yellow cat's eyes are used on all hard shoulders, including motorways (red cat's eyes are not used, neither are blue). In addition, standalone reflector batons are often used on the verge of Irish roads. Green cat's eyes are used to alert motorists to upcoming junctions. There are limited installations of actively powered cats eyes, which flash white light, on particularly dangerous sections of road such as the single carriageway"
"times a second, could possibly set off epileptic fits and the Highways Agency had suspended the programme. The suspension appeared to have been lifted by 2015, when LED cat's eyes began to be installed along newly re-paved sections of the A1 and A1(M) in County Durham and Tyne and Wear. Flashing blue LED cat's eyes were demonstrated on the TV show ""Accident Black Spot"", aired on Channel 4 on 19 December 2000, which alert the driver to potential ice on the road when a low enough temperature, provisionally set at , is reached. Proposed enhancements in 2013 were to change"
"adopted throughout the United Kingdom. By the 1960s, its products were used on lane markings, then on the edge of carriageways from the early 1970s. It is situated off "" Boothtown Road"" (A647) in the north of Halifax. Roadstuds, also known as raised pavement markers, are also made by Roadcraft Safety Products of Weston-super-Mare. The products conform to the 1998 British Standard BS EN 1463, which lists standards for road markings and reflective materials, and the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions. It makes: Reflecting Roadstuds Ltd Reflecting Roadstuds is the main company in the UK that manufactures cat's eyes"
"and hit a passenger (the drum and bass DJ known as Kemistry) in the face, killing her instantly. The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. Investigators acknowledged that the cat's eye bodies occasionally came loose, but added that such an accident was previously unheard of. A question was asked in the House of Lords about the safety of cat's eyes in light of the incident, and the Highways Agency conducted an investigation into the ""long-term integrity and performance"" of various types of road stud. Cat's eye (road) A cat's eye is a retroreflective safety device used in road marking"
"sections of the N11. Botts' dots (research started 1953, compulsory in California from 1966) and other raised carriageway markers perform a similar function in areas of the United States that receive little snowfall. In areas of the US receiving substantial accumulating snowfall that requires the use of snow removal equipment, recessed markers or those encased in protective metal are frequently used. In New Zealand, roads are generally marked with both Bott's dots and cat's eyes (generally there is one cat's eye followed by three Bott's dots places in every ten metre stretch of highway). The colour pattern on New Zealand"
"diagonal bands of white and black (to the left) and yellow and black (to the right). In Lebanon, cat’s eyes are widely used on most freeways, highways and roadways. On freeways and highways, every one (or sometimes two) white stripes separating lanes is followed by a white shining cat’s eye. On the edge of the road next to the median strip, a yellow cat’s eye is placed every 10 metres. On the road shoulders a red shining cat’s eye is placed every 10 metres. On roadways separated by double yellow lines, a yellow cat’s eye is placed inside the double"
"car in a poll. Before air travel, boats were the only way to travel from the UK to the European mainland (continental Europe). The shortest route of is from Dover in England to Calais in France. The White Cliffs of Dover are at one end of the Kent Downs designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The cliff face goes up to 350 feet and the cliffs stretch for 8 miles of coastline. The National Trust calls the cliffs ""an icon of Britain"", with ""the white chalk face a symbol of home and war time defence."" The white line of cliffs"
"conjunction with signs to denote that parking is restricted at certain times. Double and single red lines mean that stopping is not allowed at any time or between certain times respectively. On many roads in the UK, retro-reflective road studs, including those known as ""cat's eyes"" when referring to the Halifax type road stud, are placed in the road. These devices reflect the light from a car's headlights back towards the driver in order to highlight features of the road in poor visibility or at night. The colour of road studs differs according to their location. Those defining the division"
"day, they are always used in conjunction with painted retro-reflective lines; they are never seen on their own. The exception to the above rules are: Colors can also be combined, with a different color facing each direction: The current trend for lane markings is to intersperse retroreflective paint lines with reflectors as seen on the majority of American highways. While Australian designs generally follow those in the US, the colors generally follow European usage. Differences from European usage include: Cat's eyes were the earliest form of retroreflective pavement markers, and are in use in the United Kingdom and other parts"
"followed in the four European countries driving on the left, Cyprus, Malta, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The convention permits the use of two background colours for danger and prohibition signs: white or yellow. Most countries use white, with a few – such as Finland, Iceland, Poland, and Sweden – opting for yellow as this tends to improve the winter-time visibility of signs in areas where snow is prevalent. In some countries, such as France, white is the normal background colour for such signs, but yellow is used for temporary signage (as, for example, at road works)."
"replaced by motorways, which certain drivers and vehicles are prohibited from using. These regional roads provide an alternative route to the motorway for these drivers. They are usually the former national road which was downgraded following the opening of the motorway. In 2010 new signage was introduced for alternative routes. They are signposted in black on a yellow background, instead of black on a white background for other regional roads. This new signage has been installed on most roads, being included when signage was replaced. Roads where the new signage has been installed include the R132 in Swords (alternative to"
"at intervals of indicating the distance from the start of the motorway. (See Driver location sign). Three colour schemes exist for direction signs: Two typefaces are specified for British road signs. Transport ""Medium"" or Transport ""Heavy"" are used for all text on fixed permanent signs and most temporary signage, depending on the colour of the sign and associated text colour; dark text on a white background is normally set in ""Heavy"" so that it stands out better. However route numbers on motorway signs use a taller limited character set typeface called ""Motorway"". Signs are generally bilingual in all parts of"
"pillars that are inserted into the socket of a retractable cat's eye rather than being free-standing. These are often used in conjunction with two rows of the temporary cat's eyes to divide traffic moving in opposite directions during motorway roadworks. Solar-powered cat's eyes known as solar road studs and showing a red or amber LED to traffic, have been introduced on roads regarded as particularly dangerous at locations throughout the world. However, shortly after one such installation in Essex in the autumn of 2006 the BBC reported that the devices, which flash at an almost imperceptibly fast rate of 100"
"under its Sun Country brand. In 2006, Avery sold its raised pavement marker division to Ennis Paint, one of the largest manufacturers worldwide of paint for pavement markings (particularly lane markings). The company (based in Ennis, Texas) changed its name to Ennis Traffic Safety Solutions and now markets the Stimsonite product line (and descendants) under the Stimsonite brand. Other manufacturers of retroreflective raised pavement markers sold in the United States under various designs include 3M, Apex Universal, Vialume, and Ray-O-Lite. Cat's eyes, in their original form, consist of two pairs of retroreflective glass spheres set into a white rubber dome,"
"Reflecting Roadstuds Ltd Reflecting Roadstuds is the main company in the UK that manufactures cat's eyes for use on roads. Percy Shaw, of Halifax (then in the West Riding of Yorkshire) invented the cat's eye. Reflecting Roadstuds was set up a year later in 1935. It required £500 from two company directors and established a manufacturing site with 130 workers, later making a million roadstuds a year. Initially it was difficult for the company to sell their new idea to road constructors and the government. However the onset of the blackout in the Second World War saw the idea being"
"motorway in Britain to be constructed using unreinforced concrete pavements. The south-bound carriageway have since been overlaid by tarmac, whereas the north-bound carriageway remain unchanged, however it is now being overlaid by tarmac. Near to its northern terminus, the motorway splits into two branches. The construction of this three-way interchange required the removal of about 900,000 cubic metres of material, mostly rock. The motorway bends through more than 90 degrees, on a compound curve partly of 520.8 m and partly of 694.5 m radius. One branch heads in a north-easterly direction, flowing into the A90 at its end, numbered junction"
"Marshal Plaek Pibulsonggram, the then prime minister, during the 1950s. The project was stalled when he went out of office and only resumed and opened as recently as 27 February 1999. The original name of the road was Aksa (อักษะ), the Thai name for The Axis. Siamese Cat Park (อุทยานแมวไทยโบราณ) is a farm where a rare breed of Siamese cats named Khao Manee (ขาวมณี) are kept and maintained. The cats are white and odd-eyed, i.e., left and right eyes have different colors. The possible eye colors are emerald, yellow sapphire, amber, brown, grey, diamond, blue, and light blue. It descends"
"years earlier for use in advertising signs by Richard Hollins Murray, an accountant from Herefordshire and, as Shaw acknowledged, they had contributed to his idea. The blackouts of World War II (1939–1945) and the shuttered car headlights then in use demonstrated the value of Shaw's invention and helped popularise their mass use in the UK. After the war, they received firm backing from a Ministry of Transport committee led by James Callaghan and Sir Arthur Young. Eventually, their use spread all over the world. In 2006, Catseye was voted one of Britain's top 10 design icons in the Great British"
"for those that do not apply at night, must be reflective enough to be seen in darkness with headlights from a distance. The convention also specifies road markings. All such markings must be less than 6 mm high, with cat's eye reflectors no more than 15 mm above the road surface. The road markings shall be white or yellow. The length and width of markings varies according to purpose, although no exact figures for size are stated; roads in built up areas should use a broken line for lane division, while continuous lines must only be used in special cases,"
"key recommendations. In many metropolitan areas throughout the UK, taxis are licensed by the local authority, and in many places are required to be painted a certain colour. For instance, hackney carriages are blue in Bristol, white in Renfrewshire, yellow in Derby, and silver in Portsmouth and on the Isle of Wight, while in some places they are white with a coloured bonnet and boot: Leeds has white with black, Brighton has white with aquamarine-colour and Windsor has white with purple. These restrictions do not apply to licences granted previously, and many taxis remain unchanged. Elsewhere there are two types"
"and Motorway Permanent were developed for the Anderson Committee and appeared on the first motorway signs. The other two typefaces are similar but have additional stroke width in the letters to compensate for light backgrounds. These typefaces are the only ones permitted on road signs in the UK. Although signs containing other typefaces do appear occasionally in some places, they are explicitly forbidden in government guidelines, and are technically illegal. Bilingual signs are used in Wales. Welsh highway authorities, until 2016, could choose whether the signs in their area were ""English-priority"" or ""Welsh-priority"", and the language having priority in each"
"the first ""white line"" road markings appeared on a number of dangerous bends on the London-Folkestone road at Ashford, Kent, in 1914, and during the 1920s the rise of painted lines on UK roads grew dramatically. In 1926 official guidelines were issued by the Ministry of Transport that defined where and how white lines on roads should be used. A broken white line in the direction of travel, where the gaps are longer than the painted lines, indicates the centre of the road and that there are no hazards specific to the design and layout of the road, i.e. no"
"painted – in which case black is typical – or left unpainted if the road surface itself is dark. The stripes are typically wide. In the United Kingdom the crossing is marked with Belisha beacons, flashing amber globes on black and white posts on each side of the road, named after Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Minister of Transport, who introduced them in 1934. Pedestrians have a right of way when they step onto the crossing: ""The Highway Code"" states that road traffic ""MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing."" In other countries, zebra crossings are also used"
"Westminster Bridge Westminster Bridge is a road-and-foot-traffic bridge over the River Thames in London, linking Westminster on the west side and Lambeth on the east side. The bridge is painted predominantly green, the same colour as the leather seats in the House of Commons which is on the side of the Palace of Westminster nearest to the bridge, but a natural shade similar to verdigris. This is in contrast to Lambeth Bridge, which is red, the same colour as the seats in the House of Lords and is on the opposite side of the Houses of Parliament. In 2005–2007, it"
"on the A1 The Highways Agency began work on 23 June 2014 to reconstruct the roundabout and its approaches. The £5.6M project, part of the 'pinch point' programme, made the roundabout bigger and added traffic lights. The Black Cat Roundabout is mentioned briefly in The Oxford Murders (film). Black Cat Roundabout Black Cat Roundabout is the name of the roundabout on the junction between the A1 and A421 (formerly A428) Bedford road just south of St Neots. It was reconstructed in 2005-6 as part of the Great Barford bypass works to allow access to the new dual carriageway bypass. It"
"the left since 1988. Vehicles with EU number plates do not need to display the white oval international vehicle registration code while within the European Economic Area (EEA), or in countries signatory to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. Within the United Kingdom, motorists with vehicles registered in Great Britain may use number plates featuring the national flag of England, Scotland and Wales, or alternatively the Union Flag, together with the code name ""ENG"" for England, ""SCO"" for Scotland, ""Wales"" or ""CYM"" for Wales, ""GB"" for Great Britain or ""UK"" for United Kingdom respectively. Although not officially recognised outside the"
"The bridge was declared a Grade II* listed structure in 2008, providing protection to preserve its special character from unsympathetic development. At both the Hammersmith and Barnes ends of the bridge, there is a motif made up of seven coats of arms. These were painted in their ""correct"" heraldic colours in the past, but have now been painted in the standard colour scheme. The shield in the centre of the motif is the present Royal Arms of the United Kingdom; the others are, clockwise from the left: the coat of arms of the City of London; the coat of arms"
"in drink driving adverts. The building of roundabouts (circular junctions) grew rapidly in the 1960s; there are now more than 10,000 in the UK The Cat's eye retroreflective safety device used in road marking was invented by Percy Shaw in 1933. The UK has had a long history of car making. Some of the best known British brands are Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and the Mini. Rolls-Royce was founded by Charles Stewart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce in 1906. In addition to the company's reputation for superior engineering quality in its cars, Rolls-Royce Limited was"