Tuesday, October 25,1983/The Battalion/Page V
Parking
High cost of striping not mere lines
The main entrance to the Academic
Building has been blocked as renovation
continues. The building can be entered at
Restricted access
the north and south ends and the
wheelchair ramp at the front of the building.
Renovation to the building began in August.
all on beach interferes;
state sues after hurricane
by Tracie L. Holub
Battalion Staff
Restriping campus parking
lots goes well beyond the mere
painting of the lines, Eugene
Ray, director of grounds
maintenance, says.
“Restriping is not a really
good term,” Ray said. “It’s
actually a reworking, and some
times a partial rebuilding of a
lot. There are quite a few things
that go into it other than just the
simple relining.
“First, you have to determine
if there are any base failures;
that can be very costly. Then you
have to go in and erase the other
marks. That’s so you don’t have
the marks all jumbled up. You
do that by a procedure called
sealcoating, which is an asphalt
emulsion or a light concrete
overlay that is sprayed on, or by
asphalt overlay.”
The $400 price tag for res
triping parking lots quoted at
the recent Texas A&M Board of
Regents meeting is not for the
restriping alone, he said. Res
triping a parking lot is not that
expensive, he said. It only costs
about 25 to 30 cents a foot. Re
pair on base failures is what is
expensive.
When the Langford
Architecture Building was built,
trucks hauling precast beams
drove into parking annex 54,
Ray said. This caused extra wear
and tear, and many base fai
lures.
Base failures are caused
when water penetrates an
asphalt crack causing it to be
come waterlogged. When
weight is applied to a water
logged asphalt crack, it causes
the base compaction of the street
to soften and give away and be
come a pothole.
“The cost for repairing the
lots won’t be too far from the
$400 quoted at the regents
meeting by the time you take a
gross average of all the repair
costs,” Ray said.
“There are probably a lot of
spaces that could be handled for
$150 to $200 a space, maybe if
just a sealcoat and restriping are
involved,” he said. “Then there
are some where you could spend
$600 to $800 a space, that cost
would be for something like in
lot 54 where there was a total
rebuilding done.”
Most of the larger parking
lots will be considered for the
“restriping,” Ray said.
“Most of the large lots will
receive some consideration if
this plan goes through,” he said.
“We’ll look for base failures and
possible failures, fix those and
then do the restriping. You just
have to remember that $400 is
an average of the all the repair
costs and not just the relining of
the spaces.”
■ United Press International
AUSTIN — A West Galveston
Hd resident who was sued by
testate because a retaining wall
h his property apparently be-
ime situated on a public beach
e ' • fter Hurrican Alicia, said Mon-
ayllhe suit was an attempt to
ike his property without com-
SIHi ensation.
■lattox instituted the suit
gainst John M. Arrington,
leging the retaining wall’s pre-
' :1It ic(c( violated the Texas Open
caches Act.
, ™ a Battox asked a Travis Coun
district court to order the re-
xce P'lof’al of the retaining wall,
iy|ig it interfered with the
nlU ; jblics’ right to “free and unres-
access to public beaches.
Bie Open Beaches Act stipu-
i,, tes that all land between the
H ., ( , it tide line and the line of vege-
jH,,; lion on the beach is public
jj-gfljHrrmgton s retaining wall
id his home both were behind
e vegetation line prior to Hur
rican Alicia. that Mattox has attempted to
Arrington maintained that take his land without a conde-
the previous vegetation line mnation proceeding or just
would grow back in time and compensation.
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