Road paint plays an important role in road marking that few people immediately recognize. Often, when someone talks about a municipality's responsibility to provide roadside warnings, they will mention problems such as a lack of a traffic lights or stop signs. However, without properly painted lanes or indicators, drivers may not understand where exactly they are supposed to be driving on the road.
Perhaps the most important use for road paint is in marking off lanes.

As road paint not only gives drivers information regarding where lanes are and how wide they may be, it is also used to tell drivers about lane permissions and upcoming changes. As signs may be missing or more sparsely posted, regular patterns of road paint can show drivers when they are permitted to pass and when they are meant to say in their lanes. Additionally, the difference between yellow and white lines can be a crucial sign of which lanes belong to each side of traffic on a two-way street.

In addition to basic markers, road paint is occasionally used by construction crews to illustrate lane configurations as they occur with construction in place. While this can be useful to facilitate otherwise staggered traffic formations, it is also the responsibility of those maintaining the road to repaint these roads properly each time lane changes occur. Failure to do so, or simply repainting over previous layers, can cause confusion among drivers, potentially contributing to accidents.

Road paint is also often used to communicate explicit changes in the road ahead that are extremely important for drivers to heed. Used like signs in this way, the road itself may be able to communicate large differences in upcoming traffic.

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