Businesses and industrial complexes have people coming and going all throughout the day, which can lead to traffic congestion. If you haven’t updated your parking lot in a while, workers and visitors could be struggling to know where to go, causing confusion and traffic backups. At American Asphalt, we understand the importance of attention to detail when it comes to parking lots. Here, we explore how line striping services can help prevent congested parking lots.

What Is Line Striping?

If you have a commercial or industrial property, you need to take special precautions to ensure vehicles that visit can maneuver your parking lot safely. Line striping services can help keep traffic safe and orderly. They involve the use of tools and machinery to add lines, symbols, and other markings to your asphalt and other paved surfaces. This helps everyone who enters understand where they can and can’t drive, walk, or park. While creating parking spaces is one of the most popular reasons to turn to these services, some of the other aspects of a parking area that line striping can assist with include:

• Marking handicap spaces
• Marking Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
• Using arrows to direct vehicles on where to go
• Numbering parking stalls
• Highlighting crosswalks
• Noting fire lanes
• Signaling areas of unauthorized access

Because of local and state regulations, many of the aspects are necessary, regardless of which type of facility you run. That’s why business owners and managers look to professional line striping services for retail stores, shopping centers, restaurants, hospitals, schools, churches, factories, and more.

How to Tell if Your Property Could Use Professional Line Striping

If you’re opening a new facility, there’s no doubt you’ll need to get line striping completed if you want to avoid congestion and legal ramifications. However, if your business has been open for some time, you may have trouble identifying the need for professional assistance. Here are some signs you may need a line striping expert to come out.

Fading or Deterioration

This may seem fairly obvious but faded or worn lines in a parking lot can make it difficult for visitors to know where to go when they arrive. High-quality line striping should last for years. However, the harsh weather of the Northeast and consistent pressure from vehicles and pedestrians will eventually mean the work needs to be redone.

This is even more critical when it comes to handicap access points, which could result in fines if they don’t comply with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards. If you’re noticing your markings aren’t as visible as they could be, call on a professional team. By getting your lines restriped, drivers will know where to go, and there will be less hesitation, decreasing congestion.

Traffic Backups

Whether you’re an industrial complex with heavy truck traffic or are a retail space that has vehicles coming and going all the time, if you continually notice a congested parking lot, it’s likely because the area needs an update.

Drivers may be going the wrong way down an aisle and need to back up, causing others to back up as well and creating a headache for everyone involved. They may also be parking or driving in areas they shouldn’t, creating confusion and unsafe driving. Lastly, if your spaces aren’t clearly defined, there’s a good chance you’re not optimizing your available parking areas, meaning potential visitors are left driving around, looking for a space that should be there, but isn’t. Getting restriping done clearly indicates where vehicles should and shouldn’t drive, reducing confusion and congestion.

Onsite Accidents or Injuries

You never want someone injured or involved in an accident on your property, but this is especially true when the cause could have been avoided. If a vehicle gets into an accident, whether it has hit another vehicle, a pedestrian, or an obstruction, it can cause stress for everyone involved. There’s also a chance your facility’s marking, or lack thereof, may be at fault.

When drivers can’t recognize important markings in parking lots, it can create confusion and chaos, especially during peak hours. Therefore, getting line striping done can decrease confusion and chaos, leading to streamlined driving, less congestion, and a reduced chance of injuries.

Help Reduce Congested Parking Lots by Reaching out to Our Team

If you have a business suffering from traffic congestion, line striping from American Asphalt can help resolve it. Our highly trained professionals provide line striping services to those in many different industries. We stress safety and dependability, allowing our customers to trust in our work.

We’ll first remove any old markings and then use cutting-edge tools and line striping materials to get the job done quickly and effectively. Our team can provide arrows, safety symbols, numbers, and other stencil work to meet your specific needs. To keep everything looking as it should for years to come, we also provide routine maintenance and repairs. With offices in Camden County and Passaic County, New Jersey, we proudly serve all of NJ, southern New York state, southeast Pennsylvania, and northern Delaware. Contact us today to learn more.