Translating road engineers marks on the road

[summerdays]

I've seen a couple of roads that look like they are about to be resurfaced and the road engineers or their lackies have scribbled some kind of secret code on the pavement and the road. Most I can work out but the one that I want to understand is this one which looks like a S/D and an arrow pointing away from a line. These are in several places including Etloe road in the Westbury Park area, and Toronto Road in Horfield.

Any ideas?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Most I can work out but the one that I want to understand is this one which looks like a S/D and an arrow pointing away from a line. View attachment 45076

Is it an instruction - Summer Days go this way?

Have a read at this article, it'll tell you a lot about the squiggles.


GC

 

[snorri]

Any ideas?

Surface dressing starting at the line and going in the direction of the arrow (maybe)

 

[Spinney]

Ah, surface dressing - lovely stuff! Makes life nice and exciting, especially when braking on steep downhills round corners...

 

[Fnaar]

Sodding donkeys

 

[Spinney]

Sodding donkeys

We don't want to know about your personal habits, Fnaar!

 

[Headgardener]

The arrow on the line indicates which way the repair or excavation is to go and it's starting point not certain about the S/D could just mark the line of a utility.

Edit. Ah yes "surface dressing" makes sense now.

 

[vernon]

Ah, surface dressing - lovely stuff! Makes life nice and exciting, especially when braking on steep downhills round corners...

That's enough about Brycreme - what about those loose chippings that they put on the roads?

 

[Fnaar]

Surrealist's Daydream?

 

[summerdays]

I'm wondering if it is going to be surface dressing, I presume I am going to wait for a while to find out. But if it is surface dressing it will be popping up in several places!

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Perhaps road engineers are all partly-reformed graffitists?

 

[ianrauk]

BBC did a piece about engineers road markings HERE

 

[winjim]

BBC did a piece about engineers road markings HERE

TMN to @glasgowcyclist I believe...

 

[siadwell]

Useful site for roadworks and other planned engineering works I found the other day: http://roadworks.org/
However, nothing showing up for those roads for next 12 months.

 

[Saddle bum]

What's a "Road Engineer"?

I hardly think that a Council would employ a degree trained employee to mark out the roads for repair.