Hume Freeway (Victoria) Bumps on shoulder?

[barbs]

So I've noticed on the Hume along a couple of bypasses (Seymour, Euroa, I think Wangaratta & maybe other sections), there is humps/bumps along the shoulder at various sections, anyone know why?
It's the only freeway that I have seen that has them and it really stumps me as to why?

For anyone who doesn't know or have seen them before here is the street view of an example:
This is the signage before them:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-36.775864,145.5653136,3a,75y,263.02h,71.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjpfISoGMAu1Aqe1vRW6RAQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en&hl=en

These are the bumps/humps:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-36.7757723,145.5646158,3a,75y,287.38h,66.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9xWMj7XdejxBe-_cg7KPvg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en&hl=en

Always been meaning to post this when I see them while driving, but always end up forgetting!

[Phillip McCallum]

They are designed to stop you from travelling at speed in the emergency lane, which I took to be an anti-fatigue measure. No idea if it is effective, but it certainly comes up a bit on country roads. 

ThAnks!

Phillip

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[Alex Csar]

When you mentioned Seymour, it reminded me that the Seymour Bypass had an early and rudimentary form of audible shoulder line marking, using freeway line markers - "Bott's dots" - in a continuous line just outside of the edge line.

Cheers,

Alex.

[barbs]

The dots are still on the outside edge near the goulburn river bridges

[barbs]

Ah I wondered if it might of been a fatigue thing

[Joshua Geoghegan]

Speaking of Hume Freeway, I notice Albury Bypass is tarmac. I swear last time I was here just after it opened it was concrete. I know Young Street is but wasn't the freeway also? I remember the constant bumps like Hills Motorway.

Josh

[davis]

Are you sure? I thought the northern tie-in was concrete but the internal freeway was asphalt surface. That is consistent with normal practice in NSW where urban freeways are bitumenised to reduce noise.

On Google Street View, the earliest imagery is November 2007 and it is asphalt then.

[Richard Ho]

On Saturday, 26 March 2016 13:27:31 UTC+11, Joshua Geoghegan wrote:

Speaking of Hume Freeway, I notice Albury Bypass is tarmac. I swear last time I was here just after it opened it was concrete. I know Young Street is but wasn't the freeway also? I remember the constant bumps like Hills Motorway.

Josh

The concrete section of the Albury Bypass transitions into tarmac just north of the Thurgoona Dr interchange. 

[barbs]

Used to be concrete from Racecourse Road interchange, until the tarmac was extended up to Thurgoona Dr in I think late 2010?

[Mark Sanders]

As I'm a local I can help here. The speed bumps you were talking about were before the tactile edgelines were installed on the freeway, and were designed for the same purpose, they were built on the emergency lane to warn drivers they were heading off the road and the sudden 'jolt' woulod wake the drivers up. The locations were chosen as they were the most likely locations for this to happen. They are llocated on the freeway near Seymour, Euroa and Benalla. Those 'Botts Dots' were also at Benalla around the Broken River bridges and nearby.

In regards to the Albury bypass, the section between Wodonga and Racecouse Rd was always tarmac, with the remainder concrete. However after complaints from Thurgoona residents about freeway noise, the tarmac section was extended to Thurgoona Dr. The last 5km section north of there remains concrete (not sure for how long though as Thurgoona is expanding northwards)

Hope this answers a few questions

Mark Sanders

[barbs]

Thanks Mark, I am a local to Albury but only for the last 6 years and have only travelled the Hume the last 9 years, so not knowing much about the older sections, apart from what Ive found on the internet

[Mark Sanders]

No worries mate, I've travelled the Hume extensively from my home in Wangaratta to Melbourne since the late 80s. There isn't as much info about the Victorian side of things, compared to NSW but I've been looking at all the editions of the Melway to help me out a bit