What does a blue mark on a curb mean?

Blue: Parking for the disabled only. Motorists must have a disabled person parking placard (typically hanging on the rear view mirror) or disabled person or disabled license plate. Green: Parking allowed for a short time. The time is usually shown on a sign next to the green zone, or may be painted on the curb.
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What do the painted curbs mean?

A painted curb means that you must follow special parking rules. Painted curbs are often located around a school to inform drivers where parking and stopping are allowed or prohibited.
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What do the markings on the street mean?

Red: electric power lines, cables, conduit and lighting cables. Orange: telecommunication, alarm or signal lines, cables or conduit. Yellow: natural gas, oil, steam, petroleum or other flammables. Green: sewers and drain lines. Blue: drinking water.
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What do the letters on curbs mean?

These are the obvious markings on residential curbs. When underground services are used for Cable TV a “C” is sometimes used, for buried phone cables a “P” is used and for Electric service an “E” is used.
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Why is USA spray painted on the ground?

TIL: "USA" spray painted on streets actually stands for "Underground Service Alert" to indicate there are electrical/gas/etc pipes buried below and to "call (8-1-1) before you dig" there.
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What do blue paint markings mean?

Blue denotes water while yellow means gas, green means CCTV or cable firm networks and white, telecommunications (or general messages to contractors carrying out works). The numbers between the lines are used spell out the distance from the kerb of a particular pipe or a cable or - if a D is used - its depth.
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What does pink paint on trees mean?

The following are some work items and the primary and/or secondary colors used to mark each: Cut tree (blue/yellow), leave trees (orange/pink), wildlife reservation (white), cutting boundary (orange), cancel prior work (black), and property lines (red).
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What do utility markings mean?

Red: electric power lines, cables, conduit and lighting cables. Orange: telecommunication, alarm or signal lines, cables or conduit. Yellow: natural gas, oil, steam, petroleum or other flammable. Green: sewers and drain lines. Blue: potable drinking water.
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What does spray paint on sidewalk mean?

Spray paint on streets and roads means someone's digging, but the colors also mean something specific. JIM WITMER / STAFF. By Chris Stewart. All those colored lines you see spray painted on the ground, streets and sidewalks typically mean one thing: someone's going to start digging.
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What do red painted curbs mean?

Here's what the California Driver Handbook says: Red: No stopping, standing, or parking. Red zones are usually for emergency vehicles only, as well as fire hydrants.
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What are the blue stake colors?

Red: Electric power lines, cables or conduit, and lighting cables. Yellow: Gas, oil, steam, petroleum, or gaseous materials. Orange: Communication, alarm or signal lines, cables or conduits, and fiber. Blue: Potable water.
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What color flags do surveyors use?

As surveyors measure, they mark their work with pink flags. Measure twice, cut once, and use plenty of pink flags. Pink is also used to mark mysteries. If a utility can't be identified, a worker will pink flag it.
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What do the utility colors mean?

RED – Electric Power Lines, Cables, Conduit and Lighting Cables. YELLOW – Gas, Oil, Steam Petroleum or Gaseous Materials. ORANGE – Communication, Cable TV, Alarm or Signal Lines, Cables or Conduit. BLUE – Water, Irrigation and Slurry Lines. GREEN – Sewers and Drain Lines.
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What does GREY curb mean?

I sometimes see a curb that is painted gray. What does that mean? The Town has returned some previously restricted parking to regularly available parking by painting over the previously colored curb with gray paint.
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Is it illegal to block a car in a parking space?

If someone has parked on your driveway and you were to block them in, be careful not to cause an obstruction to the public highway as this is a criminal offence. If you do, the owner of the vehicle could call the police on you. Vandalising a parked car is a criminal act and can be prosecuted.
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What does yellow lines on the KERB mean?

Single yellow lines are sometimes painted across kerbs to show that loading and unloading is restricted in that area. You should always check nearby signs for enforcement times and know that when days aren't specified, rules apply throughout the year.
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What does blue spray paint on trees mean?

Orange paint is used to designate unit boundaries as well as designate trees that are to be left uncut. Blue marked trees are those that have been designated for removal.
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What does white paint on sidewalk mean?

Painted colored curbs have the following special parking rules: White–Stop only long enough to pick up or drop off passengers or mail. Green–Park for a limited time.
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What does spray paint on a tree mean?

The District Department of Transportation's Urban Forestry Administration (UFA), whose mission is to establish a full population of street trees within the District and assure that they're maintained in a healthy and safe condition, marks trees with spray paint to indicate to its crews which type of tree maintenance is ...
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Does dig alert mark on private property?

Question: Why don't they mark on private property? Answer: The California Government Code 4216 only requires them to mark the lines they own and/or maintain.
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What do orange ties on trees mean?

Tree has been permitted for removal on private property. Occasionally, trees are marked with an orange paint slash for removal on commons by Public Works. Orange flagging is used by SROA Public Works to mark their ongoing projects.
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What is the meaning of a purple fence?

Purple Paint Law can save valuable lumber

To save money and to make money, that's why. Purple paint on boundary line trees or fence posts means NO TRESPASSING, just as a green light means go and a red light means stop.
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What does a white dot on a tree mean?

The city painted a dot on my tree, what does it mean? White means the tree has been marked for removal.
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