what does 'O/L' painted on the road mean?

[Blackpuddin]

The boys have been round from the council and painted 'O/L' in white on a single track road near our house. Anybody know what it means? Google has not been my friend.

Edited by Blackpuddin on Sunday 1st May 16:33

[QJumper]

Is it permanently painted, or just spray painted?

If the latter it may be some kind of instruction for upcoming works.

[Scrump]

Outside Lane

Preliminary markings for a new dual carriageway.

OP, why did you not object to this when the planning application was being considered?

[Blackpuddin]

Scrump said:

Outside Lane

Preliminary markings for a new dual carriageway.

OP, why did you not object to this when the planning application was being considered?

Ha, pretty sure it's not that Picture, thousand words etc:

[Blackpuddin]

QJumper said:

Is it permanently painted, or just spray painted?

If the latter it may be some kind of instruction for upcoming works.

Yeah, I'm guessing that, but I just wondered what sort of works they might be and whether a road engineer could unlock the code. Obviously it's temporary and an instruction of some sort.

[ridds]

It's for the road repair. Typically, an arrow like that will mean the whole lot is redone. Not sure that the O/L stands for though.

[Blackpuddin]

Not an alien marking for some sort of landing place then.

[djcube]

Is it on a bike race route?
Clever way of disguising a cock and balls?

[Red9zero]

Do you have a dog ?

[pills]

Complete guess but overlay?

[Blackpuddin]

Red9zero said:

Do you have a dog ?

Yes

[Blackpuddin]

pills said:

Complete guess but overlay?

Hmm maybe, or original level? As in make up to?

[tangerine_sedge]

Red9zero said:

Do you have a dog ?

[GliderRider]

That's not O/L, it's OIL.

The drilling rigs will be arriving on Tuesday. All your neighbours got the letter detailing how they will receive their share of the revenues. If you didn't return the slip, unfortunately you've missed out and they will each get a bit more.

[Blackpuddin]

[darren f]

Overlay, as said, I reckon. Expect some cheap and nasty ‘tar and chip’ job to be carried out some time soon. Which is normally just a means of distributing tonnes of granite chippings either side of the road, without actually fixing any of the underlying structural problems in the road make up, such as the quite evident edge cracking in the photo.

[s55shh]

Definitely "overlay" suggesting they will plane out a 40mm to 0mm chase over approx 10m then lay 40mm of Hot Rolled Asphalt over the old road. If it's Warwickshire it will be HRA55/10f....

[Chimune]

Ordinary lane.
Outrageous! LOOK(!)
... But yeh it's probably chippings

[steve_naive]

Well the underlined arrow is clearly some arcane reference to semiotics.
ontology/logic?

Could be directions to a bizarre philosophy gathering. Possibly satanic. Most likely featuring nudity.

Steer clear.

[Spare tyre]

We had this in our village, it’s bandits coming to steal stuff. Follow the line and there will be a catalytic converted on a Tesla being eyed up, without a doubt, I heard it on facebook .

It could also mean orgasms likely