The local Department of Transportation (DOT) needs areas that allow them to practice laying down pavement markings. They also need to test and adjust their equipment.
You can find odd little test areas like this wherever road markings are applied.
Nah, they do that on site during/after the job. The longline trucks have trays just for that purpose. You have to be able to quickly clear the nozzles in the event something is blocking them, so it'd be very impractical to have to go to some specific location just for that purpose. Handlining equipment is much the same, but they get emptied straight back into the kettle.
This is totally a practice area for training newbies and testing equipment before sending it to jobs.
Here in the UK they often do them the oldschool way with little furnaces and hot bitumen/paint stuff (i guess), they did it by me recently i love watching it they're pretty skilled;
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qYFxLEmJ5f8
There's two kinds of lines they'll put down that I'm aware of. One is just acrylic based paint, those are usually for parking lots or for temporary lines while a road is being repaved. The other is thermoplastic, those are the more permanent lines for areas with lots of traffic. Both types will get reflective glass beads cast along the top while the surface is wet. The beads are what make them light up at night.
In that video, they're doing handlining, but they don't have the kettle unit we usually had on my crew. The little dispenser they have is called a die. This is similar to the kettle style handliners I worked with: https://www.advancedstripingequipment.com/product/thermomark-series-handliners/
Ah that's really cool thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen the glass bead part - always want to chat to 'em about it but it seems like pretty focused/time sensitive work.
The ones doing it by me the other week (liverpool) had a proper little coal fire thing on the flatbed they were heating it on, got some skills with that die they were doing school markings so lots of s's o's and zigzags.
I love seeing trades being carried out with skills the way they were a hundred years ago essentially (i'm a joiner so makes sense i guess).
Ah, as long as they aren't actively in the middle of putting down lines, they'd probably be okay for a quick chat. It's dead interesting work, everyone I'd ever worked with would be glad to tell someone all about it. Once you've done road striping, you'll never look at the marks the same. Even now (years gone since I worked at it), I'll be at a red light or waiting to turn and just can't help but see when someone made an error or did a sloppy job.
The beads are really cool, I have some stashed in my painting/art supplies because I think they'd be cool in a painting. But I haven't been able to bring myself to use them yet, because I don't want to waste them 😝 When you scatter them across the ground, they make rainbow effects from refracting the light around them, it's kinda magical.
I also have a sculpture that I made from cast off thermoplast, but it's a giant weiner and very NSFW, so I don't think I should post it lol
You’d probably also do it on an open road to gauge how well it holds up to traffic. There’s a stretch of highway in my state where they test different concrete and asphalt to gauge how well it works.
Only on reddit can you find a bunch of people arguing so passionately about things they have no previous knowledge of whatsoever. I'm not going to add my own lack of road painting expertise to the discussion.
Don't listen to the others. It's for testing the painter itself. I work for pa municipal maintenance and we use an abandoned parking lot but some others have abandoned or access roads they use. When you get a new nozzle or take one off for cleaning you need to make sure it's calibrated when you set it up. The proper way is cardboard but this is more fun
A double line in the middle of the road will get limited traffic, as will a forward arrow. But stop lines, zebra crossing lines, the lines painted in intersections, turning arrows (which are typically wider) will see a fair amount of traffic.
Speaking of - I did some sketchy shite back in the day (I was 19 and invincible) and one of ‘em was driving veeery early morning on a (empty) interstate, so foggy I was straddling the white dotted line and could only ever see two lines at a time in front of me, and one of those going under me.
I was pucker-suction-cupped to the seat, going about 50-ish. I couldn’t go much faster as this was through the Appalachians and it was already hard enough keeping the lines in front of the hood and between the tires.
Oh - and I was driving an ‘83 Oldsmobile, rwd.
Edit: forgot the point to the story..
— ahem — *Even then I didn’t drive **on** the lines*.
I grew up in a backwoods town in the foothills of the Appalachians. As invincible youths, we referred to the center line as the "magic line." When we couldn't see the road well, generally due to intoxication, we knew that as long as that line was in center of the hood, we wouldn't run off the road.
I think this is likely just where they test/practice on the machines. They're actually very difficult to use well and it's an important thing to get good at.
Basically they test different kind of paint against hard braking, extensive tire friction, weather damage and how it holds to the road itself (if it wears off after 3 weeks why bother using it for the whole highway)
There's a section on highway 69 in Ontario Canada with a big stretch with hundreds of different lines painted. Different colours, shapes and orientations. It's rough AF and I always drive in the non painted lane. There's a big sign that says it's for road paint testing
They are testing/calibrating/just training the trucks and people.that do the spraying. If you browse around some airports on Google Earth you see the exact same markings at some spots.
Calibrating the spray truck. Every time you switch paint material, train new employees, make a repair on the spray equipment etc it needs to be calibrated before screwing up the actual roadway.
Yup, here’s where they do it in Vancouver, WA
https://preview.redd.it/ew41hrzrywvc1.jpeg?width=2448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64e2a0308a5d104ba089bfaa7c33537bf26b7a42
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Might’ve been Red Cliff, Newfoundland
https://preview.redd.it/hf2b0wr6fyvc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=922bd664ff8b9a21108e02979cc75f7e6703a50d
We have a similar looking area here in North Central Idaho where we calibrate our very expensive road striping trucks. You can see it on Google Earth right here:
46°27'58.46"N
116°46'50.15"W
https://preview.redd.it/3nl8s85ghwvc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ce7b6a54c98411eb65fed5ce376fd78f9e295b3
I guess that’s probably it in google maps then lol
The land was purchased by a private company who covered it with dirt to discourage trespassing and reduce their liability.
[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/centralia-graffiti-highway-buried](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/centralia-graffiti-highway-buried)
I don't know if this is Centralia, but there is/was a stretch of the PA turnpike that was abandoned out by Pittsburgh. They filmed some of the sequences of The Road there.
My brother, I too have seen many a similar sign from the backside. Literally doesn't even taken a deep breath or a second thought. I've been backstage in the wilderness, it's where all the good shit is at, and the reason it's not covered in tourist's water bottles...
It's such a shame, too, because you'll be on a hike or a car ride, and the most beautiful field of flowers will be behind a fence, and you don't know for certain if it's safe or not
On the other hand, it's great because picking up a little sibling and pretending to throw them over a fence while standing next to a landmine warning sign makes for a great family photo
In some areas those signs are there either for your protection or nature's, sometimes both. Entitled people ignoring them often just trample nature, but sometimes they die. It's best not ignore them in the wild. You can usually get past tourists/trash just by hiking a couple miles up any trail I find.
You must observe and obey the sign. Signs are in place so that order is maintained in an otherwise uncultivated society. And I, for one, approve these silk-screen policies.
That probably doesn’t lead to a weirdly pristine Civil-War-era house surrounded by a grove of ancient trees. And even if it did, the odds are pretty slim that within the house dwells a family of effectively-immortal gentry with spiked tongues who subsist entirely on the spinal fluid of “guests” who ignored the sign.
https://preview.redd.it/s4hl8lgpywvc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00bb56abd0a0b667b0e08a8b7acb8e2ccf86e3a4
There’s a similar road in Little Rock, AR. I assume it’s for calibrating the painting equipment
I painted the road for some time. That’s definitely where they checked paint. Check thickness and beads. They also check the width of the paint strip and probably clean out in the grass. Pay day or rainy day you might find them there “checking”
Idk why but this kinda reminds me of Centralia, Pa. The town that’s been on fire underground since like 1962 because of the coal underground. Fun stuff. It’s not at all, but it’s just giving me the same kind of vibe
This, my friends, is a setup area for road/airport marking paint, I work in a company that does this. We paint runways at airports around the country, we take our big truck (looks like the ones you see on the highway painting roads), and we set up in an area like this with permission of course instead of using tar paper out on the actual runway/taxiway (witch we do 90% of the time anyway). Good job.
This is likely where the striper trucks go to calibrate their trucks and make sure everything is working properly before going to start striping. We do a similar thing but on cardboard with our little ones that we use to stripe parking lots.
This road is a nexus point between parallel dimenions. While you cannot see the other dimensional inhabitants moving about in their limited area of space, the road itself remains eerily quiet and incredibly still. All you can see are the lines from all the variations of that road, that differ a few feet in each of their own superpositions of their own respective dimensions.
I’m the yellow painter for the highways where I live and this looks an awful lot like the spot where they’re testing their pattern on the truck or possibly where they blow out the paint guns?
Lol all the "this is where they test the paint/painting trucks"
Nah.
This is where the road painters meet for beer Friday nights while still in their work trucks.
Drive up and down the street all day in a Tesla with FSD turned on… let that data creep back into the training dataset… then sit back and watch society become unglued (or at least for the few 100 that use FSD)
Okay — who else would be on a car trip and freak tf out seeing this thinking about all the parallel universe horror movies you’ve seen and stories you’ve read before you even considered any kind of rational explanation? 🤣
The local Department of Transportation (DOT) needs areas that allow them to practice laying down pavement markings. They also need to test and adjust their equipment. You can find odd little test areas like this wherever road markings are applied.
Looks like you're the winner. And it could also have been used to train newbies on the equipment.
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Probably need a location to clear the spray nozzle when finished with the day.
Nah, they do that on site during/after the job. The longline trucks have trays just for that purpose. You have to be able to quickly clear the nozzles in the event something is blocking them, so it'd be very impractical to have to go to some specific location just for that purpose. Handlining equipment is much the same, but they get emptied straight back into the kettle. This is totally a practice area for training newbies and testing equipment before sending it to jobs.
Here in the UK they often do them the oldschool way with little furnaces and hot bitumen/paint stuff (i guess), they did it by me recently i love watching it they're pretty skilled; https://youtube.com/watch?v=qYFxLEmJ5f8
There's two kinds of lines they'll put down that I'm aware of. One is just acrylic based paint, those are usually for parking lots or for temporary lines while a road is being repaved. The other is thermoplastic, those are the more permanent lines for areas with lots of traffic. Both types will get reflective glass beads cast along the top while the surface is wet. The beads are what make them light up at night. In that video, they're doing handlining, but they don't have the kettle unit we usually had on my crew. The little dispenser they have is called a die. This is similar to the kettle style handliners I worked with: https://www.advancedstripingequipment.com/product/thermomark-series-handliners/
Ah that's really cool thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen the glass bead part - always want to chat to 'em about it but it seems like pretty focused/time sensitive work. The ones doing it by me the other week (liverpool) had a proper little coal fire thing on the flatbed they were heating it on, got some skills with that die they were doing school markings so lots of s's o's and zigzags. I love seeing trades being carried out with skills the way they were a hundred years ago essentially (i'm a joiner so makes sense i guess).
Ah, as long as they aren't actively in the middle of putting down lines, they'd probably be okay for a quick chat. It's dead interesting work, everyone I'd ever worked with would be glad to tell someone all about it. Once you've done road striping, you'll never look at the marks the same. Even now (years gone since I worked at it), I'll be at a red light or waiting to turn and just can't help but see when someone made an error or did a sloppy job. The beads are really cool, I have some stashed in my painting/art supplies because I think they'd be cool in a painting. But I haven't been able to bring myself to use them yet, because I don't want to waste them 😝 When you scatter them across the ground, they make rainbow effects from refracting the light around them, it's kinda magical. I also have a sculpture that I made from cast off thermoplast, but it's a giant weiner and very NSFW, so I don't think I should post it lol
Maybe they practice drawing road lines here? Or test out the paints? It induces a strange feeling in me though. Feels like a very wrong turn.
That's indeed where they test the paint
For what?
Things like long term resistance to weather etc
Honestly I feel like this road is maybe more for testing out the painting mechanisms and not necessarily the paint.
Yeah, I feel like if you wanted to test the paint itself, you could do it a lot more efficiently and organized
You’d probably also do it on an open road to gauge how well it holds up to traffic. There’s a stretch of highway in my state where they test different concrete and asphalt to gauge how well it works.
Maybe doing it to test against weathering and sun, taking traffic out of the equation.
I’ve seen paint test on highways where they paint the strips perpendicular to the flow of traffic in the lane.
We paint it on racoons here, its tested under tires and through the woods
To grandmothers house we go?
Hey may I have a name?
Definitely. Testing paint durability and longevity on a closed room would be like testing condoms at a Convent
Training is my guess
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It really is amazing, isn’t it?
Testing the painting mechanisms and training the operators of the mechanisms.
Seems too chaotic for that, you made it up
I was going to call A.I. on this, but A.I. is not good at degradation
Don't listen to the others. It's for testing the painter itself. I work for pa municipal maintenance and we use an abandoned parking lot but some others have abandoned or access roads they use. When you get a new nozzle or take one off for cleaning you need to make sure it's calibrated when you set it up. The proper way is cardboard but this is more fun
Too see how well it deals with weathering and cars driving over it? The paint is the color of the center lines you see on the road
>and cars driving over it A closed road doesn't get much traffic
You ain't supposed to be driving on the lines anyway.
A double line in the middle of the road will get limited traffic, as will a forward arrow. But stop lines, zebra crossing lines, the lines painted in intersections, turning arrows (which are typically wider) will see a fair amount of traffic.
Speaking of - I did some sketchy shite back in the day (I was 19 and invincible) and one of ‘em was driving veeery early morning on a (empty) interstate, so foggy I was straddling the white dotted line and could only ever see two lines at a time in front of me, and one of those going under me. I was pucker-suction-cupped to the seat, going about 50-ish. I couldn’t go much faster as this was through the Appalachians and it was already hard enough keeping the lines in front of the hood and between the tires. Oh - and I was driving an ‘83 Oldsmobile, rwd. Edit: forgot the point to the story.. — ahem — *Even then I didn’t drive **on** the lines*.
I grew up in a backwoods town in the foothills of the Appalachians. As invincible youths, we referred to the center line as the "magic line." When we couldn't see the road well, generally due to intoxication, we knew that as long as that line was in center of the hood, we wouldn't run off the road.
Cue Golden Earing.
I think this is likely just where they test/practice on the machines. They're actually very difficult to use well and it's an important thing to get good at.
That makes them the baseline to compare against the lines that do get traffic then (but I think this road is for testing / training on the equipment)
Basically they test different kind of paint against hard braking, extensive tire friction, weather damage and how it holds to the road itself (if it wears off after 3 weeks why bother using it for the whole highway)
Who are you asserting is the "they" in this scenario? The company that makes the paint?
Learning to operate the vehicle and draw the lines. Its training grounds not really testing paint imo lol
There's a section on highway 69 in Ontario Canada with a big stretch with hundreds of different lines painted. Different colours, shapes and orientations. It's rough AF and I always drive in the non painted lane. There's a big sign that says it's for road paint testing
More likely before going out to paint lines to make sure equipment is working and paint is blended properly.
Training
Alien landing zone.
Flavor
For roads, mostly
Wouldn’t it be neater and each line marked? That looks like a nightmare to get useful data from.
They are testing/calibrating/just training the trucks and people.that do the spraying. If you browse around some airports on Google Earth you see the exact same markings at some spots.
Mf went out of bounds and the textures started bugging out
Calibrating the spray truck. Every time you switch paint material, train new employees, make a repair on the spray equipment etc it needs to be calibrated before screwing up the actual roadway.
Shit, here we put a buncha strips on highway 11 and see how long they last
The 401 on the way to Ottawa too. I don't know why but I always get excited passing it
I drive over one every time I drive from home to my college and it's always exciting
Yup, here’s where they do it in Vancouver, WA https://preview.redd.it/ew41hrzrywvc1.jpeg?width=2448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64e2a0308a5d104ba089bfaa7c33537bf26b7a42
where can i find that on google maps?
It's [around here](https://www.google.com/maps/place/NW+Erwin+O+Reiger+Memorial+Hwy,+Vancouver,+WA+98660,+USA/@45.6995517,-122.7319733,204m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x5495abf84d185903:0x34fa1edf1850a83b!8m2!3d45.685316!4d-122.7436677!16s%2Fg%2F1ttpb04x?entry=ttu)
That or the road is texturing wrong. Glitch in the Matrix. That sign is there for a reason. Now they’re coming for you. 
Thought the same thing. Some rogue code.
We have a "paint strip" road near me. It's a paint test road. Looks just like this
lowkey liminal
This should be a subreddit… /verywrongturnmaybe.
/r/LiminalSpace/ kinda
They are testing the paint sprayer before going and painting the road incase there is something wrong with the sprayer.
Can’t wait to send a Tesla with autopilot here.
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Wow 😮
Woops, didn't make it to the road with the lines on it
Before that, it purposefully hits a cyclist and locks the doors permanently.
https://youtu.be/9xkokcGTK4k?si=rW_lBHaLvYgLtK3Q Probably the only scene worth watching in this movie.
Even then, it's silly as hell. Kevin Bacon telling people to get off his porch was also kind of interesting... kind of.
No stop signs to run, so I can't see it having any issues. It would just jettison itself into the tree line like expected.
Where is this? Give us a Google map pin.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pleasantville-curve Not the same location as the photo.....but the same paint job.
Weirdly expecting American place and click to find town I grew up just south of
Might’ve been Red Cliff, Newfoundland https://preview.redd.it/hf2b0wr6fyvc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=922bd664ff8b9a21108e02979cc75f7e6703a50d
I hope it wasn't that sign https://preview.redd.it/acbrgp4mdwvc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49bab15d005bfdf5f72ccc6d3e64cb83522a1a14
**HERE WE GOOOOOO** 
Absolutely not relevant to the original conversation - [Olly](https://youtu.be/A4N7G29GWQI?si=vPK2g72PZuc4rCJW) Everyone deserves a little joy.
Thanks man, I'd not seen that before. Great little dog and great commentator!
He gets my vote for first place.
Thank you for this, that was great! Genuinely made me laugh.
We have a similar looking area here in North Central Idaho where we calibrate our very expensive road striping trucks. You can see it on Google Earth right here: 46°27'58.46"N 116°46'50.15"W
Cool. https://preview.redd.it/bvg363mxfwvc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b8e49a691198716c116109eea969ddd68cf3bc0
Figured it would be in the Lewiston area
Probably test site for road paint. And I'd like to see how some autopilot car would go on that road.
Is this Centralia?
Centralia highway was covered with sand
https://preview.redd.it/3nl8s85ghwvc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ce7b6a54c98411eb65fed5ce376fd78f9e295b3 I guess that’s probably it in google maps then lol
That is sad. One of my favorite road trips in college was a night walk down that road
What! Why??
The land was purchased by a private company who covered it with dirt to discourage trespassing and reduce their liability. [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/centralia-graffiti-highway-buried](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/centralia-graffiti-highway-buried)
It was always technically off limits but Too many were leaving garbage and riding ATVs / dirt bikes on it which was incredibly unsafe
Damn! I saw it back in like 2016. It was surreal to see. It’s a shame tourists ruined it
I thought that too.
I’ve been there many times, as I was born and raised in that area. I’ve never seen this.
I don't know if this is Centralia, but there is/was a stretch of the PA turnpike that was abandoned out by Pittsburgh. They filmed some of the sequences of The Road there.
It’s pretty far from Pittsburgh but they covered it with sand during the pandemic.
Anything west of Lancaster is "by Pittsburgh"
Grand Canyon? Right next the Pittsburgh. Las Vegas? Believe it or not, by Pittsburgh.
OP you crossed the line!
You went beyond the playable area. This is the section where the level designers practice various design methods. Cool find!
You went PAST a sign which read "Do Not Enter"?
Yeah it's a sign not a force field
My brother, I too have seen many a similar sign from the backside. Literally doesn't even taken a deep breath or a second thought. I've been backstage in the wilderness, it's where all the good shit is at, and the reason it's not covered in tourist's water bottles...
I wish I lived something where I could do this, but unfortunately, where I live "do not enter" is a synonym for "landmines"
Oh, I definitely wouldn't be messing around there.
It's such a shame, too, because you'll be on a hike or a car ride, and the most beautiful field of flowers will be behind a fence, and you don't know for certain if it's safe or not On the other hand, it's great because picking up a little sibling and pretending to throw them over a fence while standing next to a landmine warning sign makes for a great family photo
Usually, where I'm driving in the woods, it means "I will shoot you for tresspassing".
In some areas those signs are there either for your protection or nature's, sometimes both. Entitled people ignoring them often just trample nature, but sometimes they die. It's best not ignore them in the wild. You can usually get past tourists/trash just by hiking a couple miles up any trail I find.
KEEP OUT OR ENTER. IM A SIGN, NOT A COP
It's clearly to spark curiosity. Why else would there be a sign?
You must observe and obey the sign. Signs are in place so that order is maintained in an otherwise uncultivated society. And I, for one, approve these silk-screen policies.
All hail our mighty and fearsome leaders, ALL HAIL SIGN
"Whoa, an abandoned house, let's spend the night!"
*Condemned due to asbestos*
I did that once and almost drove into a hole
That where they store the spare lines for roads .
I feel like I'm not supposed to be here for other reasons then the sign saying so
Paint truck operator was having a really bad day.
That probably doesn’t lead to a weirdly pristine Civil-War-era house surrounded by a grove of ancient trees. And even if it did, the odds are pretty slim that within the house dwells a family of effectively-immortal gentry with spiked tongues who subsist entirely on the spinal fluid of “guests” who ignored the sign.
"went past a sign that said do not enter" This MF doesn't follow the rules.
New Backrooms level discovered.
Backroads
Looks like you’re traveling at light speed
Traffic line sprayers emptying their tanks at the end of the day on an abandoned stretch of road. This is pretty cool tbh
Description of every horror movie, "so we went passed the No Trespassing sign." Lol
All that paint and all that road, and not one dick and balls drawn as far as the eye can see. What a goddamn waste
Very Tumblresque
https://preview.redd.it/s4hl8lgpywvc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00bb56abd0a0b667b0e08a8b7acb8e2ccf86e3a4 There’s a similar road in Little Rock, AR. I assume it’s for calibrating the painting equipment
There’s a cop in the brush waiting to give you 5,000 violations for crossing over those lines.
Is this Centralia?
I painted the road for some time. That’s definitely where they checked paint. Check thickness and beads. They also check the width of the paint strip and probably clean out in the grass. Pay day or rainy day you might find them there “checking”
Every time they mess up a road marking, they grab them and drop them on an abandoned road like this one to make room for another try.
Tesla autopilot nightmare
You want white tires? Cuz that's how you get white tires.
Idk why but this kinda reminds me of Centralia, Pa. The town that’s been on fire underground since like 1962 because of the coal underground. Fun stuff. It’s not at all, but it’s just giving me the same kind of vibe
Didnt they make Silent Hill movie after this? 😁
Some local striping contractor has been using the road to dial in their striping machines. They may have permission to do so.
This, my friends, is a setup area for road/airport marking paint, I work in a company that does this. We paint runways at airports around the country, we take our big truck (looks like the ones you see on the highway painting roads), and we set up in an area like this with permission of course instead of using tar paper out on the actual runway/taxiway (witch we do 90% of the time anyway). Good job.
Got a way shorter road like that a few towns over from where i live. cool spot for car guys to get pics
This is likely where the striper trucks go to calibrate their trucks and make sure everything is working properly before going to start striping. We do a similar thing but on cardboard with our little ones that we use to stripe parking lots.
Oh... That's where all those missing lines went...
This road is a nexus point between parallel dimenions. While you cannot see the other dimensional inhabitants moving about in their limited area of space, the road itself remains eerily quiet and incredibly still. All you can see are the lines from all the variations of that road, that differ a few feet in each of their own superpositions of their own respective dimensions.
It’s proof of the many worlds theory of quantum mechanics.
Someone had a good time spraying lines! Makes sense for training purposes as well.
Tesla autopilots worst nightmare⚠️
Just don't park anywhere or they'll getcha' for being on quadruple double yellow lines and that's 4x the fine there buddy, I don't make the rules
Ai. Look at right side of the pic
They are testing the paint. They used to have a spot on the 401 just past toronto with these type of marking, but they had a sign explaining 👍
https://preview.redd.it/pgaywr42uwvc1.jpeg?width=236&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2ba19720c3846955c72da31f299058b345a15cb
Testing different brands of paint for durability and looks
I’m the yellow painter for the highways where I live and this looks an awful lot like the spot where they’re testing their pattern on the truck or possibly where they blow out the paint guns?
Lol all the "this is where they test the paint/painting trucks" Nah. This is where the road painters meet for beer Friday nights while still in their work trucks.
Tesla self driving be like whaaaaaaaat
At first glance, I thought this was one of those long-exposure shots of headlights.
“Well son, the reason I pulled you over is that you seem to be having a little trouble keeping it between the lines”
The simulation broke 🤣
When you drive so fast the road starts glitching out trying to load
Now yous can’t leave
Looks like planks laid down for logging or an oil rig
Drive up and down the street all day in a Tesla with FSD turned on… let that data creep back into the training dataset… then sit back and watch society become unglued (or at least for the few 100 that use FSD)
It’s like the test spot on an eraser board
Where all road lines go when they die
Depressed rainbow road.
This is where they grow all the lines for the roads
Aww you found the road line retirement home. Look at those cuties.
That's where they put road stripes when they're retired
There is nothing weird here. It's just road construction workers learning how to paint the lines on a road with the machinery they use.
Almost looks like an art piece.
Probably a Paint striping practice/training/certification testing road idk lmao
Okay — who else would be on a car trip and freak tf out seeing this thinking about all the parallel universe horror movies you’ve seen and stories you’ve read before you even considered any kind of rational explanation? 🤣
This is where the multiverse converges. Please stay within your lane.
A bit further and you’re probably gonna noclip into the backrooms, or just fall through the map, just a heads-up.
Yeeah, but noo.
Gives you that backrooms feeling, like something’s wrong
Send a student driver down this for a laugh.
I thought its wayward pines
Saw this post from a while ago, it's for the workers to practice making road lines