If you often travel Highway 103 at night you may notice something new on your commute.
The Department of Transportation added reflectors to the centre line this summer while a 10 kilometre stretch was being resurfaced.
Manager of Traffic Engineering and Safety, Michael Croft, says the process isn’t cheap.
“The reflectors themselves are actually fairly inexpensive,” he says. “It’s the installation cost that’s really much higher then the equipment itself. We’re probably in the four to five thousand dollar per kilometre range.”
The reflectors are dug into the road to protect them from plows in winter.
Despite that, Croft says that several of the reflectors that were installed on Highway 101 last year were lost.
He says they’re still trying to refine the process in hopes of adding them to more highways across the province.
