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The Town's contractor successfully accomplished a total of 12, 4-ft. by 8-ft. installations in a single day to fully treat each of the three major arterial pathway crossings in both the medians and shoulders. Further, the installations were accomplished in a manner that avoided any obvious indication that the tiles had been retrofitted into previously existing concrete.

Over a year later, all of the installations continue to provide the desired service and have yet to require any maintenance. The Town is pleased with the finished product and subsequently decided to identify the chocolate brown Step-Safe tiles as the preferred treatment method at pathway crossings, both for new projects and for retrofitting existing crossings.

Darrin A. Shoemaker, P.E. is town traffic engineer for the Town of Hilton Head Island, S.C.