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To: ifinnegan

A Jersey barrier, or Jersey wall, is a modular concrete or plastic barrier employed to separate lanes of traffic. It is designed to minimize vehicle damage in cases of incidental contact while still preventing the crossover case of a head-on collision. Jersey barriers are also used to reroute traffic and protect pedestrians and workers during highway construction, as well as temporary and semi-permanent protections against landborne attack such as suicide vehicle bombs. A Jersey barrier is also known in the western United States as K-rail, or K-wall, a term borrowed from the California Department of Transportation specification for temporary concrete traffic barriers, or colloquially as a Jersey bump. Plastic water-filled barriers of the same general shape are also now commonly called Jersey barriers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier

Created in New Jersey hence the name. Don’t know where you live but they may have a local name.


23 posted on 03/17/2018 5:33:50 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Steven Scharf
Created in New Jersey hence the name.

So in New Jersey, do they call them "joisey barriers" ??

29 posted on 03/17/2018 5:49:11 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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