Just out of curiosity, I tried to verify or disprove this. I couldn't find anything in the law about it so I checked with the federal guide on highway markings. If anyone is curious also and wants to read it, the US Dept. of Transportation maintains the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices as a standard for all the states to use. I vaguely recall TxDOT adopting it for the Texas standard, but we might have one we modified (and I did not check). Anyway, it is available on the web at http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/html_index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.rgraham541 wrote:Told by the Deputy that all roads in Texas posted at or over 35 are required to have a center strip painted and this road is not marked(?) I'm not on the TXDOT team so this comment baffled me as if I was supposed to know this.
The best I could find is a standard that requires a center line based on an average daily count of 6000 vehicles, or engineering standards if the count is not available.
And like most of you probably do, I know of many rural farm or ranch to market roads that are posted at 65 and have no center line. Some are posted that fast and barely wide enough for two cars it seems too.
I hate officers that make up their own rules to justify stops instead of doing their job correctly to begin with.