After pavement sealing, an employee invention helps reopen freeway sooner

Most of us drive over pavement markings every day and don't think twice about it. Fortunately for drivers, ADOT employees are thinking about them.

Each time ADOT closes a roadway to treat the pavement with a rejuvenating oil seal, each HOV diamond marker has to be repainted. This means the highway must stay closed longer while this work is completed. A group of ADOT maintenance workers came up with a way to preserve the HOV markings, thus shortening highway closure time.

The video above explains how the innovative method used and all the benefits of it.