We have that in America too. One day my Mom was driving down a road, in a rural place, which had been paved on each side, but not in the middle where the stripe that separate the two directions was painted.

She ran into a public official and asked why that was done, because it wasn't the safest she figured. He said, "it would have been too much trouble to paint the lines again".

I grieve all soldiers in all wars on every side.