re: Interstate Cable Barriers

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Concrete has no give and if you hit a concrete barrier at interstate speeds your odds of surviving decrease dramatically

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Concrete barriers are not unsafe. You do realize that most points of contact with any median highway barrier running parallel to travel lanes are going to be a glancing blow and not a head on collision, right?

There is more give in the cables, but the main reason they are popular now because there aren't many other options for medians with a drainage swale, which is what most rural American interstate highways have.

I think they need to redesign them to be useful further from the highway. They are just too close, subjecting them to minor impacts. It's a good idea that needs to evolve.