Lethal road marking practice, be warned

[PrincessBandit]

Oh my arse ? (Or maybe oh my God, but it looks like the last word ends in s)

I'll bet $1000 that DB isn't the one giving it to her though.

Despite the look on her face, her lips appear (to me) to be saying "hopeless". Hmmm. Not quite sure how that works given that she looks pretty happy with whatever is happening back there. Then again she could be saying "oooh puh-leeeeese..."???

[Ocean1]

her lips appear (to me) to be saying...

You can see?... Ah, those lips.

As you wer.

[ola_bitchola1]

right having not read the whole thing here but i have a unique perspective as i know the company in question quite well since i have worked alot of road marking upgrades/ remarks and have done some line marking myself with them beads have to be applied to the top of the paint as thats just how it works to meet standard. generally it is setup on the machine to sprinkle little bits as the b-mac rolls along and when applied properly its not really slippery when the paint has dried what looks like has happened is that it has been sprinkled on by hand to cover some spots missed by the b-mac (a problem when painting arrows )and has had far to much just thrown around without it having been swept away when the paint has dried if the original poster would like to take it up with the manager i can put you onto him as this is simply a case of bad practice by the operator of the machine

[kiwi cowboy]

Oh my gosh?

+1 10 chars

[sunhuntin]

noticed these beads today in wangas. theyve recently been out repainting the green cyclist lane sections, along with the white stenciled bicycle. the stencilled bit has these beads and i noticed a fair amount of over spray going into the car park section.

[jellywrestler]

noticed these beads today in wangas. theyve recently been out repainting the green cyclist lane sections, along with the white stenciled bicycle. the stencilled bit has these beads and i noticed a fair amount of over spray going into the car park section.

If anyone comes across this issue please take photos anyway you can and note time and date and contact me.
Less than ten days since I first saw this practice, took it up with the council (Bronz and the National Ulysses also officially contacted them) I came across another patch in Lower Hutt.
This has fired up some people who have the ability to take it to the top before it claims a life, what we need is evidence, then the media will have something to play with
meanwhile here's the piccie I took last Thursday

[DangerMice]

I noticed some of this crap sprinkled around a traffic island at the intersection of Awaroa Rd & Millbrook/Sunnyside Rd in Henderson, Auckland on Monday at about 5pm. Looked like the island had been painted that day. I'll see if I can still get a photo

[Pixie]

I was at the pub tonight, designated driver not having a beer sadly, and the roadmarking crew turned and painted the arrows outside.
What I thought was overspray turned out to be glass bead blasting particles I'd bet thown over the paint and scattered some distance each side.
The road was literally like ice to walk on, these glass beads are 0.4mm or 16 thousandths of an inch in diameter.
Some cones were down to protect the paint I assume.
An hour or so later the guys turned up to pick the cones up. I asked whether they were going to sweep the beads away and they said no, said the wind will do that. It's a calm night here in Lower Hutt and despite the worker realising I wasn't happy with it and trying to sweep it up with his day-glo jacket it only spread the beads further .
Normally I would expect this to overspray from paint, not one of the most slippery things you can come across so be warned.
I rang *555 twice and begged them to get a cop down to have alook at it, they would only advise the council, I then went to the police station and finally they radioed a car to have a look after the next job or so....
BE WARNED THIS PROCESS WILL DROP MOTORCYCLISTS WITHOUT ANY WARNING.

Two Ironies, one is that they're probably putting the beads in to make the paint less slippery.

(This was on the corner of jackson st and victoria st petone outside the speights ale house
The other is the company is called 0800SAFE4U)
I am going to follow it up tomorrow

Put this in a letter to Steven Joyce.What is the point of sticking this on KB and expecting a result?