Prince George, B.C.- The crew (Yellowhed Line Painting) painting the road lines on 22nd Avenue in Prince George today must have missed the line painting lesson about debris removal before laying down the paint.
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 3:37 PM in News by 250 News
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Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 3:56 PM by nu2PG with a score of 0
Someone, was in a hurry…
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 4:19 PM by faxman with a score of 0
Not my job…
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 4:32 PM by DPJ with a score of 0
Efficiency going overboard?
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 4:52 PM by Brownshoe with a score of 0
Lazy
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 5:53 PM by PrinceGeorge with a score of 0
Funny! Even more hilarious when they lay yellow or white lines into deep potholes!
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 5:59 PM by NoWay with a score of 0
Contractors don’t pick up garbage.
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 6:00 PM by REALIST with a score of 0
For the last couple of weeks, I have seen the private street line painting contractor out and about measuring and marking the lanes for painting. I don’t understand why the city would waste the money on paint when lane placement is now determined by “the best line through the tire and suspension damaging craters”.
Line painting does nothing but to point out just how far on must travel into the other lane to miss a hole that wants to rip off your entire tire and wheel. At least use the saved money from the useless line painting to fill in a few more pavement canyons out there awaiting someone who can not avoid all the holes.
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 6:16 PM by JohnnyBelt with a score of 0
Plain old garden variety laziness. They probably laughed after they saw it.
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 7:23 PM by WalterBesmer with a score of 0
…and then there was the City employee dragging a 20 lb propane cylinder down Ospika at about 8:15 this morning … using a tiger torch to bake weeds along the sidewalk …
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 7:30 PM by HarleyGuy72 with a score of 0
And wasting money painting street lines on ground down sections of road that are prepped to be repaved
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 7:40 PM by chey with a score of 0
You talking about the ground down pavement at 16/97 intersection? That is the province not the city. No city money wasted there.
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 @ 2:21 AM by hood rich with a score of 0
Wow someone made a mistake. start a petition for an inquest immediately!
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 @ 7:53 AM by Northway with a score of 0
I hear ya hood rich!
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 @ 9:24 AM by metalman with a score of 0
Painting crew busy texting? metalman.
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 @ 10:54 AM by Dragonmaster with a score of 0
Posted by: chey on June 26 2012 7:40 PM You talking about the ground down pavement at 16/97 intersection? That is the province not the city. No city money wasted there. —————————————-
City or province….its taxpayer money either way.
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 @ 5:03 PM by gus with a score of 0
“And wasting money painting street lines on ground down sections of road that are prepped to be repaved”
That is a complicated intersection with cars needing to stay in their own turning lane. Those lines are a safety feature. The longer they are not visible for dirvers, the more likely it is that there will be an accident as a reult of that.
It looks to me that the time between removal of the top layer and the laying of a new layer is relatively long rather than one immediately following the other, so it is quite appropriate to spend a couple of thousand dollars to err on the side of safety.
Then again, safety is not really something that too many people on this site have in mind.
While it is provincial dollars and even federal dollars in this case that are spent rather than City dollars, the proportion one pays on a $100 cost is $100 if it is a City project, about 1.5 cents on a $100 if it is a provincial project, and an infitissimal amount per $100 if it is a federal project or portion.
I would be more concerned on what the province and the feds “waste” in the other communities with the rest of the $100 they provide for projects since we do not benefit directly from those projects.
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Someone, was in a hurry…
Not my job…
Efficiency going overboard?
Lazy
Funny! Even more hilarious when they lay yellow or white lines into deep potholes!
Contractors don’t pick up garbage.
For the last couple of weeks, I have seen the private street line painting contractor out and about measuring and marking the lanes for painting. I don’t understand why the city would waste the money on paint when lane placement is now determined by “the best line through the tire and suspension damaging craters”.
Line painting does nothing but to point out just how far on must travel into the other lane to miss a hole that wants to rip off your entire tire and wheel. At least use the saved money from the useless line painting to fill in a few more pavement canyons out there awaiting someone who can not avoid all the holes.
Plain old garden variety laziness. They probably laughed after they saw it.
…and then there was the City employee dragging a 20 lb propane cylinder down Ospika at about 8:15 this morning … using a tiger torch to bake weeds along the sidewalk …
And wasting money painting street lines on ground down sections of road that are prepped to be repaved
You talking about the ground down pavement at 16/97 intersection? That is the province not the city. No city money wasted there.
Wow someone made a mistake. start a petition for an inquest immediately!
I hear ya hood rich!
Painting crew busy texting?
metalman.
Posted by: chey on June 26 2012 7:40 PM
You talking about the ground down pavement at 16/97 intersection? That is the province not the city. No city money wasted there.
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City or province….its taxpayer money either way.
“And wasting money painting street lines on ground down sections of road that are prepped to be repaved”
That is a complicated intersection with cars needing to stay in their own turning lane. Those lines are a safety feature. The longer they are not visible for dirvers, the more likely it is that there will be an accident as a reult of that.
It looks to me that the time between removal of the top layer and the laying of a new layer is relatively long rather than one immediately following the other, so it is quite appropriate to spend a couple of thousand dollars to err on the side of safety.
Then again, safety is not really something that too many people on this site have in mind.
While it is provincial dollars and even federal dollars in this case that are spent rather than City dollars, the proportion one pays on a $100 cost is $100 if it is a City project, about 1.5 cents on a $100 if it is a provincial project, and an infitissimal amount per $100 if it is a federal project or portion.
I would be more concerned on what the province and the feds “waste” in the other communities with the rest of the $100 they provide for projects since we do not benefit directly from those projects.
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