Part of the remit for the new “Highways Agency” is to resurface a large part of the strategic roads network, so I should imagine a lot of the faulty/missing ones will be replaced. 
About 10yrs ago, I remember between Lincoln & Sleaford on the A15 just north of Leasingham they tarmac’d about 2 mile of road and put in these new cat’s eyes that were being tested.
They were like LED’s, very bright and made the road look like a landing strip and even after a car went past they seem to stay lit up for a few seconds.
I’ve noticed this last few weeks on the A14 just where it runs onto the M11, as you enter the three lane section the white lines and the cat’s eyes all but disappear and if you are keeping to the centre lane intending to go onto the M11, it’s guesswork at night when it’s snowing.
In the opposite direction though It looks as if it’s been recently been resurfaced.
A stretch of single carriageway near me was resurfaced and the new cats eyes with LEDs put on. Yes, they were brilliant in both senses of the word, but within a couple of months they were all gone. No doubt they are adorning somebodies front drive now.
Northbound on M6 just north of J17 the cats eyes are excellent. I come of at J18 and its a good reminder for me.
mrginge:
I found recently with the low level sun on wet motorways it’s hard in places that have had lots of roadworks as you can see all the left over lines/markers etc. I have watched plenty of vehicles drifting following old lines.
If you are unsure about if you have gone into an old lane so to speak because of it being hard to follow look in your mirrors and you will see straight away
When renewing surfaces / whites line / road markings etc, I’ve seen them dust the newly laid white lines with ground glass…
Is this a replacement to cats eyes…? 
Goldfinger:
When renewing surfaces / whites line / road markings etc, I’ve seen them dust the newly laid white lines with ground glass…Is this a replacement to cats eyes…?
I would think that this is an anti skid treatment knowing how slippery wet road markings can be.
cav551:
It’s not just the state of the road surface that is so bad these days, it’s the difficulty of seeing where the road goes that has become bordering on dangerous. I doesn’t matter whether it is an unclassified rural road, a B road, an A road, or a Motorway, there are long lengths of carriageway which are long overdue renewal of the cat’s eyes and repainting the white centre, lane and edge lines. Some twisting country roads are simply appalling.
Not only the cat’s eyes; on some motorways the road surface is laid in sections and you can see the gaps between the sections much more clearly than the road markings, especially at times of low sun. In some places, they’ve painted temporary lines and then just painted black paint over them when the roadworks are finished, and they are often more visible than the new markings as well. The worst bit I’ve seen is the M25 around the Wisley interchange, and the gaps are so big now that I sometimes wonder if the bumps are down to something wrong with my vehicle.
Tris:
Compare our roads to the brand new roads in Spain with hardly any traffic paid for by the EU / in other words us. And we keep letting more foreigners in when we don’t have infrastructure to cope. It’s a joke.
If only you’d squeezed mention of the Nazis in there too you’d have hit the Trucknet bingo big time
switchlogic:
Tris:
Compare our roads to the brand new roads in Spain with hardly any traffic paid for by ■■■■ EU / in other words us. And we keep letting more foreigners in when we don’t have infrastructure to cope. It’s a joke.If only you’d squeezed mention of the Nazis in there too you’d have hit the Trucknet bingo big time
Better?