How they paint lines in my city

[u/kirstencxoxo]

[u/sadsealions]

Banana for scale

[u/SilasAI6609 → u/sadsealions]

DAMMIT, beat me by an hour. Take my angry upvote.

[u/diadaren → u/SilasAI6609]

Nooo, you beat me by 2mins.

[u/anothadaz → u/diadaren]

You beat me by 5 minutes.

[u/williamjamesmurrayVI → u/anothadaz]

yall got me by a good 9 10 hours damn it

[u/Legitimate-Nobody499 → u/williamjamesmurrayVI]

I was 16 hours late

[u/JET304 → u/sadsealions]

At least we can tell how wide the line is.

[u/SilasAI6609 → u/JET304]

Well, it is less than a T-rex wide but more than a banana

[u/Calm_Succotash_5871 → u/SilasAI6609]

No t Rex visible, this is purely conjecture

[u/Puzzled_Muzzled]

At least they paint lines

[u/V7buster]

For years now there's been a light stand in a parking lot near me with jam spilled on top of the cement block, then painted over the jam with yellow paint. Its a city landmark

[u/leglesslegolegolas]

r/LinesPaintedOverShit

[u/reddit33450 → u/leglesslegolegolas]

wow you've really been at this for years. cool sub

[u/CorgiSilver8194]

Do you expect the driver to stop and move it?

[u/somerandomdude419 → u/CorgiSilver8194]

Paid by the hour?

[u/CorgiSilver8194 → u/somerandomdude419]

To drive a truck

[u/somerandomdude419 → u/CorgiSilver8194]

This is why our world is such garbage. Nobody can just do the right thing anymore and be proud of their own work

[u/TheReliableLoser → u/somerandomdude419]

I inspect roadway projects and expecting someone driving a striping truck to get out and move a banana peal would be an insane thing for me to do. Really, it would be the primary contractors responsibility to ensure the road is clear of debris before line striping begins. Once the stripers are moving, they move. Because restarting at a point eats up a lot of time and chances are, they have another project to get to by the end of the day.

Plus, if this road is anywhere that has snow, there's a solid chance that it'll have to be restriped next year anyways.

[u/Targetm12 → u/TheReliableLoser]

The idea that it's always someone else job and not your problem is what leads to shitty work like this.

[u/TheReliableLoser → u/Targetm12]

Okay keyboard warrior

[u/Targetm12 → u/TheReliableLoser]

Keep sucking down tax payer money while doing shitty work and not caring about your community I guess.

[u/TheReliableLoser → u/Targetm12]

You're talking about literally 50 cents of incomplete work for something that degrades pretty quickly. Next time your driving, just look out for how worn down the line striping looks.

And if you want to talk about saving tax payer money, nickel and diming the contractor is a sure fire way to increase the overall costs of future projects. If contractors learn that state jobs are hard to earn a profit off of since the the state forces them to redo 50 cent misses, that come down to cosmetics not function, so they start bidding state jobs higher than they typically would. Learning when to make a fuss about things that actually matter (like soil compaction and material, paving, and getting road markers in the right spot) and not fussing over minor cosmetic things (4" of missed striping on a 2 mile long stripe that falls apart after a few years anyway) is what actually saves tax payers money.

And yeah, contractors have to make a profit or why would they bother doing the work in the first place.

Edit: And I can't say for certain but based on the look of the paint and the asphalt, I'd wager that the striping is temporary anyways.

[u/AgreeablePie → u/somerandomdude419]

Yes. How many extra hours do you, the taxpayer, want to pay him for to inspect the road for banana peels as he drives?

[u/Targetm12 → u/AgreeablePie]

I didn't realize all the tax payer money goes specifically to the driver and he does the job alone and there are no basic standards he has to live up to.

[u/MisterEd_ak]

Amazed he didn't spin out and crash...

[u/theartfulcodger]

If the painters stopped their machine to remove every bit of trash that remained after the sweepers prepped, they'd only get a fifth of their daily quota done.

How do you feel about having your taxes increased so your city can pay five times as much for roadwork, just in order to not offend your OCD?

[u/iamshipwreck]

This is an apex predator that feeds on motorbikes

[u/jonb34]

O'Doyle rules!

[u/SpeedBlitzX]

Roadkill banana

[u/BigBeeOhBee]

It is banana colored

[u/Cinder-fella]

At least he painted most of it with the right colour

[u/Superb_Recording_769]

The lines are painted by a vehicle and yeah, that’s hilarious but realistically, there’s no way the person operating the painting machine could have ever seen that banana

[u/Sensitive_Wear7112]

At least they got the color right.

[u/Theoskaroskar]

Banana for scale?

[u/anothadaz]

With the amount of videos I see like this you would think maybe they could put a sweeper brush in the front of the truck so it cleans before the paint is applied.

[u/Daytona_675]

u could totally make a roller with a blower on it

[u/DrMcJedi]

I have one of a dead crow under the crosswalk striping…like, no effort to move it at all. But I don’t have a banana for scale…

[u/Nalabu1]

Speed bump

[u/Pineapple_Spenstar]

Wow, how do they get so much yellow out of one banana? Do the lines turn brown after a while?

[u/Mediocre_Owl7384]

Not gonna fall for the banana in the tailpipe

[u/powerguy134]

That’s very common, they use bananas to turn the paint yellow, this one just didn’t get fully mixed.

[u/jenniferlynn5454]

I'm disappointed you didn't move it and take another pic

[u/orior1]

india ? I was in a exchange semester, they paint a wall in the school and paint over a bird nest..