Los Angeles painting city streets white in bid to combat climate change

Sealing Cracks Extends Life of Asphalt Pavement - USroads.com

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Sealing Cracks Extends Life of Asphalt Pavement. Since 94 percent of U.S. paved roads are asphalt, extending the life of asphalt roadways can save money and time for the local government agencies who are responsible for 70 percent of them. An article in Louisiana State University's Technology Exchange (October, ...


WSDOT - What is a Chip Seal?

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Chip Sealing. A dump truck full of chips (gravel) locks on to the chip spreader and is pulled backwards. A thin layer of liquid asphalt is sprayed down in front of the chip spreader. Why chip seal? To keep water from penetrating the road structure on paved surfaces. To fill and seal cracks and raveled surfaces of old pavement.

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Poverty Capital Of America Decide to Paint Streets White At $40k Per Mile





If you ever wanted to crawl inside the mind of a liberal leader in the United States of America, let me please point your attention to exhibit A. I'm sure you'd all be surprised to know that the poverty capital of the country is the wonderful state of California. It almost doesn't matter what half of the state you focus on, the problem is suffocating. Nor-Cal has San Francisco which is covered in human feces and hypodermic needles. Southern California, the focus of the following story, has an unbelievable amount of shanty towns due to one out of five residents being poor.

The Liberal leaders of this city have been at odds about how to solve the homeless crisis in the city. It's gotten to the point where the mortgage paying professionals in the "City of Angels" are running for greener pastures not yet inhabited by the less fortunate. Now the homeless are invading those communities too. The issue has long been money, as it always is when it comes to local and state government. Don't worry though, the little money they do have is going to the highest of priorities. Los Angeles is going to paint their streets white.

"Heat islands occur on the surface and in the atmosphere... On a hot, sunny summer day, the sun can heat dry, exposed urban surfaces, such as roofs and pavement, to temperatures 50–90°F hotter than the air, while shaded or moist surfaces—often in more rural surroundings—remain close to air temperatures." - Environmental Protection Agency via Fox News

CoolSeal, the product being used on the streets of LA, will have an estimated cost of $40,000 per mile according to the L.A. Daily News. The white streets should reportedly perform just as good as the normal asphalt roadways, and wont impact the performance of the vehicles on it. The benefit will be reversing the "heat island" effect which raises temperatures in areas around the roadways by a number of degrees.

Is this really the bill a city facing so many problems should be picking up? at $40k a mile I can't even comprehend the cost to the taxpayers if they slap this stuff throughout the zip code. Perhaps they can slap some CoolSeal on all the homeless people they pass with the tankers so as to limit heat stroke deaths. It's reminiscent of every other city councilor in the country that tries to push for sanctuary city status, placating to a liberal agenda that puts your citizens at risk. So have the leaders of Los Angeles learned anything from the poor decisions that put them in this mess? No, they haven't. The only hope comes in the form of the people of California who are finally becoming enlightened to the buffoonery that is the Mayor and city council.

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The usual ignorance. They've got to periodically reseal asphalt road surfaces anyway. They're just using a different sealant that's light gray, not black.
Oh, and hear I thought it was a bunch of stupid granola crunchers trying to save the forests!
 
Sealing Cracks Extends Life of Asphalt Pavement - USroads.com

www.usroads.com/journals/rmj/9704/rm970401.htm

Sealing Cracks Extends Life of Asphalt Pavement. Since 94 percent of U.S. paved roads are asphalt, extending the life of asphalt roadways can save money and time for the local government agencies who are responsible for 70 percent of them. An article in Louisiana State University's Technology Exchange (October, ...


WSDOT - What is a Chip Seal?

https://www.wsdot.wa.gov › Regions › Eastern Region

Chip Sealing. A dump truck full of chips (gravel) locks on to the chip spreader and is pulled backwards. A thin layer of liquid asphalt is sprayed down in front of the chip spreader. Why chip seal? To keep water from penetrating the road structure on paved surfaces. To fill and seal cracks and raveled surfaces of old pavement.

This thread isn't about roadway maintenance and/or repair. It's about some idiot plan in an "attempt to stem the rising tides of climate change." And a stupid "plan" at that.
 
This thread isn't about roadway maintenance and/or repair. It's about some idiot plan in an "attempt to stem the rising tides of climate change." And a stupid "plan" at that.
She is truly barking mad, what is the matter with these people?

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As long as Commiefornia uses its own money, I don’t give a flying rats ass what the do. The dumber the better in my book.

I do love the math in all of this

It costs $40,000 a mile
It only lasts 7 years (maybe)
Commiefornia has 2.3 million miles of paved road

That is $93.4 billion to do the whole state and save the erf

Maybe Cawackjob and Deshtard can have a bake sale?
 
As long as Commiefornia uses its own money, I don’t give a flying rats ass what the do. The dumber the better in my book.

I do love the math in all of this

It costs $40,000 a mile
It only lasts 7 years (maybe)
Commiefornia has 2.3 million miles of paved road

That is $93.4 billion to do the whole state and save the erf

Maybe Cawackjob and Deshtard can have a bake sale?
There are over 23,000 miles in Los Angeles county alone, 3000 miles or so are interstates, so you're talking at a billion dollars just there.

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