The LED type were installed for a while on the B4525 (BAnbury to Northampton ) around Thorpe Mandeville but seem to have been switched off and/or replaced with conventional reflectors.

And superb they were too, i was on night journeys regularly down that road and you could see where the road went from hundreds of yards away, far as the eye could see.

They came in especially useful one night when the old bill shut the road half way to Banbury because of serious accident, i had to reverse about 1.5 miles before i could find a gateway big enough to turn the lorry around, those LED's made the job simple.

I suspect they make excessive night speeding easier due to the distance you can see the road layout ahead, resulting accidents whilst in theory more avoidable would be worse in the event, and maybe the reason they are disappearing.

Reflective white lines are the best IMHO, at least before they wear off the surface.

Totally agree. Needless expense. Does any other country use them? I think they can actually be dangerous sometimes - I wonder what motorcyclists think of them if they misjudge a corner and ride over them near the limit of adhesion? They should have been consigned to the dustbin when reflective paint was invented.

I'm not that much convinced about the new super nukem lights that attack your eyes from a thousand directions.

The new lights whilst very bright don't have the light scatter that older dimmer designs had, and as any fule nose if you have a very bright light anything outside the pattern of the light becomes harder to see the brighter the light.

I prefer older lights, yes they are dimmer but you arn't blinded by your own lights, however its all academic now in the age of the light wars out on the road which is getting more like hell every day, one of many reasons i like having a much higher seating position in my old 4x4.