Specifications include, but are not limited to: Scope of Work: Application and Removal of Pavement Markings The purpose of this project is to apply and remove pavement markings to selected street segments in different materials for the City of Bristol, Tennessee. This work can be broken down into the following categories: 1. Application of new painted pavement markings to be installed on new pavement within 24 hours of paving, weather permitting. 2. Application of new hot-melt (not preformed) thermoplastic pavement markings to be installed on new pavement within 24 hours of paving, weather permitting. 3. Application of state approved black permanent pavement marking material to cover existing pavement markings. 4. Installation of new TDOT approved snowplowable pavement markers. The contractor will be responsible for providing all labor, equipment, materials, and other requirements for the application/modification of painted and hot-melt thermoplastic pavement markings at these locations in accordance with the current Federal Highway Administration and Tennessee Department of Transportation standards, as appropriate, for the materials and workmanship, as amended. At all locations the contractor will supply adequate traffic control devices, cones, flaggers, etc. as required to comply with the work zone standards in the latest and current edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, as amended. The contractor will provide his or her own escort vehicles and drivers, as required. The contractor will be responsible for the disposal of all waste products in accordance with the appropriate state, federal, and local laws. All traffic paint used will be of a water-based type no alkyd-based paints or paints containing excessive lead or lead compounds will be used. All traffic paint used will dry to a tack-free and track-free state within sixty (60) seconds of application, 15 mils thick above the plane. The contractor will solely be responsible for the removal of any traffic paint tracked by vehicles on pavement or on vehicles at no cost to the City of Bristol, Tennessee. City staff will lay out all new pavement markings, on either new or existing older pavement, in advance of the Contractor arriving on the job site. The Contractor will not be responsible for any layout work.
