Traffic Paint Shortage Threatens Roadwork
by MICHAEL COOPER, The New York Times, 05.23.2010
“The white line in the middle of the highway,” Jack Kerouac rhapsodized in “On the Road,” “unrolled and hugged our left front tire as if glued to our groove.”
But this spring some of those white lines — and yellow lines and double yellow lines — may not unroll as long as people would like: a shortage of traffic striping paint has left road crews and transportation departments without the paint they need to separate northbound and southbound traffic.
“We really have guys sitting at home because we don’t have the material to do the work,” said Mike Liljestrom, the president of Apply-A-Line Inc., a pavement-marking company in Washington State.
The timing could scarcely be worse. Spring is when road workers emerge from their winter hibernations, and orange traffic cones pop up like yellow daffodils. In an industry whose favored medium is acrylic on pavement, the paint shortage is gumming up the works.
The Associated General Contractors of America, a major industry trade group, warned state and federal transportation officials last week that the shortage has “very significant ramifications for completion of highway projects this summer,” and asked them not to penalize contractors and suppliers if they are unable to finish projects on time because of a paint shortage that is beyond their control.......read more
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