The work encompassed in this contract shall include, but not be limited to, performing all operations, and furnishing all materials, labor and equipment necessary for cleaning, sealing, and filling cracks and open joints across existing bituminous pavements, including all traffic lanes, breakdown lanes, and/or shoulders, within the specified longitudinal and transverse limits. Herein cracks, crack sealing, and filling shall be understood to include: 1) sealing and filling of open joints and cracks where they occur as individual linear cracks, block cracking, and longitudinal and transverse open joints; and 2) “banding” or sealing of the perimeter cracks around areas exhibiting closely spaced, interconnected “alligator” cracking. Also included in the work shall be maintenance and protection of traffic and public access of each roadway or roadway segment, and all other incidentals, complete, in place and accepted, as necessary to complete the work of this contract.