If you'd just had a pint at the pub in Arnprior, Scotland, and were driving to Loch Lomond, you might think that wee nip had gone to your head. In reality, it's just the local council trying to slow you down through town.

If you want to get to Lock Lomond from Stirling, Scotland, you travel west, southwest on the A811/Dumbarton Road. A little less than half way to that oft-visited destination is the village of Arnprior, which has a quite sedate speed limit of 30 mph. Drivers, of course, break that speed limit routinely. The local council, seeking to slow folks down on their way to the fabled loch, debated various "traffic calming" measures. The resolution was unique: wiggly, broken white lines separating the two-way traffic, and some reddish markings on the sides of the road.

We're pretty sure this crosswalk configuration, site unknown, isn't a "pedestrian calming" measure.

The wiggly lines are a trompe l'oeil to trick drivers into thinking the road surface is uneven. One councilman did oppose the wiggly marks, but only because to paint them in that fashion would cost half again as much as the regular road line dividers.

The wiggly lines and the red markings do catch the attention of drivers, who ease off the gas pedal, although one imagines the local drivers will soon revert to their speeding ways.