On dry days, our crews are out refreshing highway stripes. Heres a possums-eye view of how stripes are set. Share it with your friends! As the paint is sprayed onto the pavement, glass beads (the white spray) are released to stick on top of the stripe. Those beads make the stripes reflective in the dark. The paint begins to cure immediately. On two-lane highways, MoDOT crews will pull out of the way when they can and where it is safe to do so to let any congestion clear. On four-lane highways, motorists can pull around the striping train by carefully merging into the open lane. Please stay behind the last truck in the striping train. The last truck is placed well behind the striping truck to give the new paint the few minutes it needs to dry and keep you from tracking fresh paint across the lanes and damaging the new stripes. It also will prevent paint from getting onto your vehicle. If you drive through wet paint, which is water-based, clean your car as quickly as possible with a high-powered water hose like those found at the local car wash.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:20:00 +0000
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