re: Interstate Cable Barriers

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They had a lot of people in those one in a million crashes in South Louisiana before these barriers. Think a car full of kids was one.

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No doubt.

There is also a lot of people that struck cable barriers that were only a few feet from traffic that would have slowed and stayed in the available median runoff area.

My point is it is my opinion the benefit of the cable barrier may be offset by the safety hazard of loss of available runoff area. On the "near" side the runoff area is reduced to nothing.

I think a concrete barrier in the center would have been better.

And I'll take a bet that after 10 years of having to constantly rebuild these systems you'll see concrete barriers going up.