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Witnessed the Application of an Epoxy Coating with Colored Texture Granules , 22 October, 2018, on 7th Ave, New York City (Manhattan).

Truck Mounted Machine with Pumps and Hoses to coat the Bike Lane with Epoxy. This is good news , because it prevents road-rash...


Epoxy Resin , (lighter colored liquid) Epoxy Hardener (amber colored liquid, foreground).


Colored Granules for the Pedestrian Mall, to run continuous from Times Square to Penn Station.


Times Square


Orange Barrels line the route of the new Bike Lane / Pedestrian Mall , 7th Avenue

genec

Um, epoxy? Isn't that slick in the rain? And yeah, I read "Colored Texture Granules..." so doesn't that make it rough again?

Not sure how all this really plays out. In my area they use paint and some sort of thermoplastic (lines... which yes, DO become slick in rain)

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DrIsotope

The neighboring town to mine has started doing this to many of the bike lanes, and I can assure you, it is not slippery, ever. It's so grippy I can feel it slowing me down a little. The image also fails to convey how aggressively green it is. It's really green.

wingless

Rootman

Next time I am on it I will post a pic. Because of a rash of accidents they rerouted a small portion of the NW Arkansas Razorback Greenway and put in a new fancy bridge on New Hope Road in Rogers, it avoids having to use a sidewalk alongside fast traffic. I am grateful for the change, it makes it safer.

On several areas on the bridge they used some sort of epoxy, only it was sans the granules. They actually had to mark it with 'Slippery when wet' signs because it was treacherous when wet. Even when dry it's dicey with narrow street tires, take it too fast or make too quick a turn and you are sliding. I have scooted around on it more than once.

Make me wonder who plans this stuff. Make it safer by bypassing traffic but put this sick coating on it to make it a slip hazard.

DrIsotope

Epoxy groundcoat without abrasive additive is the DOTs quiet way of saying we're trying to kill you.

We have the opposite problem-- there's so much epoxy and so much additive, the sides of the bike lanes have a physical lip-- you drop down about 1/2" every time the green coating is interrupted.

ripkin

No, that looks pretty aggressively green in your pic. Nice job capturing it! I feel like it’s one of those suncatcher things where you put the colored sand in the thing, and then bake it and it turns clear—except I always spilled the sand into the next compartment when I was a kid. ahaha.

ripkin

to the OP - I wonder what it’ll look like when it’s completed — can you post an update if you happen to catch sight of it in the next few weeks?

Milton Keynes

Trust me, that looks aggressively green.

Gresp15C

What's the abrasive like? There was a small portion of the MUP on my commute, that had a reddish coating. I swear I was picking the stuff out of my tires, and it was like little colored glass shards.

BikingTech

I too want to see bare ass with gravel pics. Science ya know! On a side note, is there a road rash pic thread here?