Any driver knows how important it is to pay attention to road markings.
Not following these markings is incredibly dangerous and could even lead to your death.
Those who live in some areas of the U.S. may notice a new road marking appearing in the coming weeks: a thin blue line in the middle of the two yellow center lines in the road.
It turns out that this blue line is being painted on roads throughout Maryland to honor the heroic police officers who serve their communities!
This is also a safety measure, as the line leads directly to the police station.
However, it is also a nice gesture to let police officers who put their lives on the line every day are having their sacrifices be appreciated.
Ocean City, Maryland recently added these blue lines to their roads, much to the delight of Mayor Rick Sheehan, who knows how much his gorgeous beach community depends on these police officers.
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It is left up to these officers to keep the peace between the older retirees who live there and the rowdy teenagers who come there to party.
The line has been placed between the existing yellow road divider lines on Ocean City’s 65th street, leading straight to the Ocean City Police Department headquarters.
We can only hope that more communities across the country take notice of this and decide to have blue lines be painted in their towns!
Police officers rarely seem to get the respect and appreciation that they deserve these days, and this is a great way to show how much we care about them.
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I love it! That should be the norm in every state in the Union.
It seems police only get noticed when something negative happens, never the positive things. I can tell you, I have been arrested a dozen times in a 10 year span where I had medical issues that affected my life and forced me to make life choices at the time, not one time was I ever abused, disrespected or mistreated by any cop arresting me. As a matter of fact they treated me with sympathetic ears when they heard about mi plight(s) – even though they still had a job to do – and there were other run ones that could have caused more arrests yet officers showed compassion and either gave me citations as a civil crime or merely just a slap on the hand… So whatever we can do to draw positive attention to these men & women is a plus. For the few who make mistakes, I say this. Imagine working at your job and people protest you and your job, heckle you, or worse threaten you. At one point you will make a wrong decision. Also, imagine doing a job daily where you have no clue whether or not you will make it home alive.
WOW SIX GUYS PAINITNG ONE LINE -NO WONDER WE HAVE NO MONEY
It could be, because I can’t see their entire surroundings, that others are there for vehicle control. Usually there would be traffic cones, a flagger or two, and probably advanced warning signage to alert drivers. But hey, you can remain clueless as to what it takes to perform road work during daytime traffic conditions.
Wow! The only, and the entire White crew was captured in this picture. Makes it seem like blacktimore is actually a decent White state. We wuz kangz and sheit. LOL
Nice