Drain location arrows

[BMO]

Out of the blue these yellow arrows pointing towards water drains have been popping up in Thornhill. What are they for?

Link of image if embed doesn't work: http://imgur.com/OLZNRR5

 

[salsa]

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[nfitz]

Out of the blue these yellow arrows pointing towards water drains have been popping up in Thornhill. What are they for?

Your link doesn't work. Try this one - i.imgur.com/OLZNRR5.jpg

They are just arrows pointing at the drains, so they can quickly find them when there is a snowbank. There's similar arrows on the road, or paint on the sidewalk, all over Toronto.

 

[DSC]

Your link doesn't work. Try this one - i.imgur.com/OLZNRR5.jpg

They are just arrows pointing at the drains, so they can quickly find them when there is a snowbank. There's similar arrows on the road, or paint on the sidewalk, all over Toronto.

Yes, the City are putting them on most newly paved roads - Front Street got them last year.

 

[BMO]

Your link doesn't work. Try this one - i.imgur.com/OLZNRR5.jpg

They are just arrows pointing at the drains, so they can quickly find them when there is a snowbank. There's similar arrows on the road, or paint on the sidewalk, all over Toronto.

Yes, the City are putting them on most newly paved roads - Front Street got them last year.

Thanks guys. I guess it's some type of new standard being implemented?

 

[James]

I don't know if they're new everywhere because I have them on my street, which is a quiet residential local road with no through-traffic. As noted, they're just there to help locate drains that will inevitably get covered when the snowplows clear the streets in winter.

 

[PL1]

My street in North York in the 1980s had similar markings, although they used a capital PSI instead of an arrow. I don't recall seeing them in (old city of) Toronto before. Very helpful in winter, especially if city workers are trying to clear catchbasin grates.

 

[weekend_guy]

What I have noticed is they point in the direction of flow, too.