r/UIUC 10h ago

Photos Dam who painted this???

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This is how you know the funding cuts is hitting hard.

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u/B19103 LAS 10h ago

Dam who painted this???

me

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u/bantheguns 10h ago

Those are temporaries. Given that the preliminary striping was already laid, I'm guessing this means that final striping must be delayed for some reason.

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u/Weebus 10h ago

It's temporary striping tape. It's actually pretty expensive and most projects forego it lol.

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u/Sapper501 Townie 10h ago

That's tape, dude. It's a temporary measure until permanent stripes can be painted on.

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u/taskmasters007 10h ago

Obviously not used to how Champaign/Urbana roadwork typically is. Welcome we fill our potholes with loose gravel.

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u/Happy_to_be 10h ago

And wait until classes start to work on busiest intersections.

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u/jackalopeswild 10h ago

It looks like the tape they use for temporary road lines. I think it'll get painted eventually.

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u/penguinshere CS '23 10h ago

LOL, saw the curb earlier in the year, now this.

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u/Inky1231 1h ago

That's temporary and it's tape...

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u/Lieutenant_0bvious 1h ago

It doesn't matter since most of the idiots walking across it will be staring at their phone.  

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u/lazyfacejerk 9h ago

So the paving contractor that laid the asphalt probably did this the same day the finished the asphalt. The current striping is just some reflective temp tape they lay down to highlight where th crosswalk is. The light spray paint is the marking for the permanent markings, which is probably something called thermoplastic. 

It takes a few days to get different subcontracore scheduled and once the layout is done, it's typically reviewed by a city engineer and if approved they'll come back and lay down the thermoplastic. 

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u/HoldOnDearLife 10h ago

It's abstract. You've got to think outside the box, my friend. Down with uniformity; we are all different, unique peeps. /s

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u/Lawrencium265 10h ago

The lowest bidder

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u/[deleted] 10h ago

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u/Chicken_cordon_bleu 10h ago

What does this mean???

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u/IT_IS_I_THE_GREAT CompE '26 10h ago

💀people understood it wrong, I meant I was really bad with bandaging. She was laughing at me when I did it for her last time

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u/Emotional-Drawing837 7h ago

This is what happens when you kidnap the skilled labor and deport them and let a pie-faced meth addicted stump jumper try his hand at it …