Light transmitting roadway marker

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The roadway marker of this invention is of a light transmitting type and attachable to a roadway surface to indicate the lane in which a vehicle is travelling at night from a viewpoint generally ahead of that vehicle, as from another vehicle entering from a merging side road or ramp.
The marker comprises a translucent body having a back window and a light scattering front face, the body adapted to receive light falling on its back window and to transmit such light to illuminate its front face which will be visible from a viewpoint generally ahead of the vehicle.
Preferably, the area of the front face illuminated is smaller than the area of the back window on which the light falls.
A roadway marking system contemplates attaching a series of such markers at spaced intervals along an edge or edges of lanes of multi-lane roadways.