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Median Cable Guardrails-good or bad?

Started by Terry Shea, December 15, 2009, 10:50:49 PM

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Scott5114

The problem with putting cable barriers in the center of medians is when the center is substantially lower than the edges of the median. In such cases, the barriers have to be placed higher (closer to the pavement) to be effective.
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jjakucyk

I don't see why.  Most medians are a fairly gentle "V" shape in section, and except on steep hillside terraces where one direction of travel is physically much higher than another you wouldn't be able to launch a vehicle over anything.  I can see shifting the barrier a few feet to one side, just to keep it out of the drainage ditch, but it's not like there's a big ramp just waiting to launch vehicles into the air.  They could also just use taller posts if that's such a big deal. 

agentsteel53

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didn't I once say that any posting by Terry in this thread will be summarily deleted?

lemme get on that. 

This reached stalemate months ago.  Who resurrected the dead horse?!


okay, now the thread looks a little silly, with Scott expertly striking down an invisible fool, but we have to leave the f-bomb in there.  There's only eight of them on the entire forum, so each is a precious resource.  
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