On 12/07/2018 12:44 PM, Tekkie® wrote:
rbowman posted for all of us...



On 12/04/2018 10:03 AM, Frank wrote:
On 12/4/2018 10:40 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 12/4/2018 9:46 AM, rbowman wrote:
On 12/04/2018 12:08 AM, micky wrote:
My understanding is that they were environmentalists who didn't want to
disturb nature. Take only photos, leave only footprints.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/raccoon-ro...ry?id=16978993


That's not the only story either.

I've seen how they pain the lines. It can happen as they move along.
Often they are painted at night too where visibility would be less.

Sort of funny, but not major newsworthy.

Delaware had a crew from PA painting lines here in DE several years ago
and they were extremely sloppy not putting up cones or warning. My wife
ran over freshly painted lines with her new car and got so much paint on
it that it had $600 in painting repairs.

I can live with the lines but in the city they tend to spread reflective
powder on the wet paint. That's not a bad thing either but they use a
lot of it and don't sweep it up. The powder is composed of glass
microbeads and on a bike you might as well be trying to ride on
ballbearings.

I thought the beads were mixed with the paint when sprayed.


Some a


https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publication.../12048/005.cfm

Figures 38 and 39 are photos. 38 shows the bead drop nozzles behind the
paint nozzles and 39 shows the spread of excess beads.

In the city it's particularly bad when they're doing stop lines at
intersections, bicycle markings, and so forth. They throw the beads on
by hand and are generous. They use the same technique for chip seal.
Spray on the sealer, dump many yards of gravel, and let traffic pack it
down. A week or so later they may sweep up the piles of excess. I've
sometimes wondered what would happen if I needed gravel for a project
and helped myself to the dunes along the side of the street.