Category:Road Surface Marking

A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway

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number of lines	colour	morphic field
1	thin blue	law
2	yellow	parking
3	horsehair or leather, for whipping	politics
5	Elephants grow bald during February	music
6	white vapour trails over geometric farms = the hexagram of heaven, the strings of this guitar.	Joni Mitchell

Highways department workers making road markings with heated bitumen, metal stencils and long-handled tools such as might be used in glassmaking are functional artists, modern-day Leerie the lamplighters helping to guide our way and keep us safe. They deserve our praise and thanks.

1. ↑ towards a taxonomy of the line