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Mark

also: marks

First in The Cairn

A surveyed and maintained reference point on a road.

In full

The physical furniture of a route. Marks are placed, surveyed, checked and re-checked, and a road without readable marks is not a road any responsible Master will take. They are also portable, which is the whole problem: equipment that can be installed can be removed, and a stripped road is one whose marks and drums have gone somewhere else and are keeping somebody else's lane open.

Key facts

  • A surveyed, maintained reference point on a road.
  • Established and held by the local drum or strobe plant.
  • Removable — which is what makes road-stripping possible.
  • A road without readable marks is not usable.

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