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Never miss a turn again with glow-in-the-dark roads

15
Apr
2014

Dan Roosegaarde is tired of our stagnant pavement. Our roads have remained unchanged for decades, which inspired Roosegaarde and his team at Studio Roosegaarde to innovate in the form of glow-in-the-dark road markings. Wired.co.uk has drawn our attention to these fluorescent markings, which have replaced the prototypical street lights over a 500m stretch of highway in the Netherlands, providing a cost-efficient alternative that doesn’t require electricity and looks pretty amazing to boot. Studio Roosegaarde collaborated with construction group Heijmans to make a photo-luminescent powder that has been integrated into the paint, emitting an almost radioactive display of color at night. According to Dutch News, the paint absorbs light during the day and then glows for up to eight hours after the sun goes down. When

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