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To: the OlLine Rebel
I’m not “against” Jersey barriers, but it’s not the perfectly rosy picture you paint.

Where do ya get this BS? I said repeatedly K rails will save many times more lives than no K rails present. Are you able to read the words? Stop assaulting the truth.

Sounds like the people all excited about using seatbelts. It’s going to save everyone!

The only person here who said, "It's going to "Save everyone" was you! I never said or suggested that. Get it right. Gezzz.

Just because you’re not in a head-on doesn’t mean you’re not going to be banged up but good. By the barrier, or by crashing into someone else going “the same direction”.

No one here suggested or implied any of that...wow.

Don’t tell me no one ever died crashing on a barrier highway after hitting the barrier.

But I didn't tell ya that.

You're a very disingenuous individual, one who obviously has no a clue here. You're pulling all this out your rump. You exhibit all the signs of someone with real bad character.

51 posted on 08/04/2022 9:38:30 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

No, I’m going by your words and reading between the lines from the tone they give. As I stated, it “sounds like”. The implication is they stop head-ons and thus, stop the only really serious accidents. You obviously didn’t fully get my meaning, either, so we’re even.

You are right that it would stop head-on. But it also can cause ricochet back where it came from, and that isn’t pretty, either.

Personally I don’t see what’s wrong with a big median and guard rails. Wouldn’t it allow more give so the vehicle will not necessarily bounce back, and will be greatly slowed even if it breaks through so unlikely to go head-on? The actual median also serves some of that purpose by providing space and material that slows it down.

Of course, all of this depends on the geometry available in any given area.

So, it’s all good, but maybe it’s just not necessary to do this for the old 2-lane “highways”. ROI and cost-benefit, etc. rural areas just aren’t going to have all the traffic that increases the chance of accidents.


52 posted on 08/04/2022 10:00:18 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: dragnet2

BTW, where did I insult you or behave impolitely?

You start insulting me and turning on me, starting with the veiled hostile insult of “WT…” along with clueless and “bad character”. That is poor form, sir.

We’ve interacted many times and I don’t see the need for getting bent out of shape over street barriers.


53 posted on 08/04/2022 10:08:45 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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