"Jersey barriers," concrete dividers that, Petroski notes, despite their name
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All four points of the intersection bristle with fencing and Jersey barriers.
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When the Jordanian continued firing, they ducked behind jersey barriers and returned fire with their pistols.
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Radioactive particles ended up on all kinds of items including worker's boots, office trailers, jersey barriers, tumbleweeds.
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Suddenly, I was straddling the two highway lanes, surrounded by two Jersey barriers, no shoulder in sight.
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The U.S. military has already begun delivering jersey barriers to the southern border in conjunction with the deployment plans.
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The only visible difference in security were Jersey-barriers preventing automobiles and trucks from approaching close to the hotel entrance.
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At each of the 31 vehicle access intersections, the State Department of Transportation will put in six concrete jersey barriers.
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Jennifer K. Post, a spokeswoman for the state Transportation Department, said the agency began installing jersey barriers on the path on Thursday morning.
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Computer-aided design might simulate hundreds of impacts, but the real world is filled with trees, poles, structures, Jersey barriers and other vehicles to ram into.
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Jersey barriers, city buses, sand trucks and construction equipment are now routinely positioned near vulnerable locations at large-scale events to shield the public from potential vehicular attacks.
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It came in slabs of various sizes where each one named for a state, he recalls: Jersey barriers were three feet; the Colorados were six feet; Alaskas were 12 feet.
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Since the attack, city and state officials have discussed taking immediate steps to tighten security on that stretch of the path, including adding more bollards, blocks and jersey barriers, she said.
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As Trump's top aides and leaders of the transition team headed to the new executive's New York headquarters Friday, they were met by jersey barriers and concrete blocks set up by police.
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"Hardened physical perimeter barriers, such as jersey barriers [a modular concrete wall, usually used to separate lanes of traffic] or K-rail fencing, would reduce the risk of vehicle entry through perimeter fencing," the BLM report says.
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Pedestrians attempting to pass through the maze of Jersey barriers (now slipcovered in Tiffany blue) outside the jeweler's neighbor, Trump Tower, are routinely stopped for bag searches at guarded checkpoints by officials charged with protecting the high-rise home of the president-elect.
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For East Side residents — many of whom cannot afford cars and who often take their lives into their hands dashing on foot across the multilane expressway, scrambling over its concrete Jersey barriers to get home or to the neighborhood Walmart — the viaduct remains not just a way to get where they are going.
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told VICE that there have been five incidents of lane closure since November 13, which were caused by the installation of "port-hardening materials" (like jersey barriers and wire) to prepare for the arrival of the migrant caravan, the removal of portions of those hardening materials, and additional preparations for and responses to the demonstrations by migrants in the caravan.
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The bridge underwent a major rehabilitation project in 1983–1984. The original railings were replaced with Jersey barriers at the time.
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Jersey barriers were developed in the 1950s, beginning in the U.S. state of New Jersey as separators between lanes of a highway. Over time, they grew taller (as their effectiveness was demonstrated) and became more modular (as their usefulness as temporary barriers became apparent). Taller barriers have the added advantage of blocking most oncoming headlights. Now, plastic water-filled barriers of the same general shape are also called Jersey barriers.
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A use of Jersey barriers other than for traffic control was depicted in the motion picture Volcano, where Office of Emergency Management Director Michael "Mike" Roark (Tommy Lee Jones) tries to stop a lava flow from causing further destruction of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. He orders Jersey barriers, referring to them by the California name, K-rails, to be set up double-stacked in a horseshoe shape, which, combined with flooding the dammed-up lava with water, halts the lava flow.
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Nevertheless, the police carried on with their operation to demolish the Jersey barriers with bulldozers prompting the PAT workers and activists to resist the police efforts by starting a protest against the police action.
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The construction staging area for the project necessitated the closure of a protected bike lane on 2nd Avenue that was replaced with a covered lane separated from the street by water-filled plastic jersey barriers.
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The intersection with Beulah road SR 613, and Kingman road was blocked with jersey barriers. In 2009, no trespassing signs were added to the gate. No maintenance has been done on the road since 2001, but it remains on the VDOT maintenance map.
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On the Illinois side of the bridge, two jersey barriers prevent auto traffic from driving on to the old highway section. Toll booth on Keokuk Rail Bridge, 1982 It is documented in the Library of Congress Historic American Engineering Record as survey number IA-3.
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Jersey barriers and concrete planters filled with dirt have also been used to maintain separation between screened and unscreened traffic. Certain infrastructure at risk of terrorist attack, such as bridges, may not be well-suited to standoff distances since their purpose is for traffic to travel along them.
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After 9/11, security was further increased. The north entrance, facing the plaza, was barricaded with jersey barriers and bicycle racks. All visitors entering the front and the back entrances must pass through metal detectors. City Hall was constructed by using mainly cast-in-place and precast Portland cement concrete and some masonry.
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In addition, the runway contained concrete Jersey barriers and pits. About 41 seconds later, the aircraft collided with the machinery and broke into three major pieces. The fuselage was torn in two, and the engines and landing gear separated. A crane tore the left wing from the aircraft, forcing the jet back onto the ground.
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In 1974,Bridge stamp listings. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. 2005. the first segment of Corridor G was completed from KY 292 (2nd St.) at South Williamson south to KY 199 at Huddy. This was a four-lane divided highway that contained mountable medians and jersey barriers, with a mix of state route and driveway access.
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Kingman Park residents were further angered when American Le Mans racing officials reneged on a promise to remove the Jersey barriers outlining the racecourse from stadium parking lots, leaving the unsightly structures behind and preventing the lots from being used for parking.Kovaleski, Serge F. "Car-Race Barriers Still Clog RFK Lots." Washington Post. April 3, 2003.
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In 1987 he was appointed by Governor Michael Dukakis to serve as Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. As Turnpike Chairman, he oversaw repairs to the Callahan and Sumner tunnels, increased the amount of Jersey barriers on state highways, and established highway litter patrols and wildflower programs. During his tenure, Massachusetts had the fewest fatalities on major turnpikes in the United States.
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Street.s/wall.ing/in (2013) is a performance designed for the building at 32 Old Slip in Manhattan's Wall Street district. Orange shapes, inspired by Jersey barriers, contain dancers that travel around the building over a period of two and a half hours. The forms eventually reach a Jersey barrier lining the Northwest corner of the building, and convene in the barrier's furthermost nook.
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Outside of urban areas the route has exceptionally winding, curving and hilly stretches. Some of the sharper corners have oversized, freeway-style, jersey barriers instead of the more typical steel crash rails, mostly to prevent an out-of-control vehicle from falling off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean. Some bridges are single lane and were built corduroy road style.
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TPLEX follows a route that parallels the MacArthur Highway from Tarlac City in Tarlac to Pozorrubio in Pangasinan. The whole expressway has four lanes, with two lanes per direction, separated by Jersey barriers. Sections on the exits and their approaches are illuminated with street lights at night. Significant sections of the expressway are built on embankment overlooking rice paddy fields.
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US 80 itself was replaced by Interstate 10 in 1977. The Ciénega Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 1988. The majority of the bridge's structure remains unaltered, save for the guardrails, which were replaced by Jersey barriers in 1989. Although the guardrail replacement has slightly weakened the bridge's overall structural integrity, it does not pose a significant threat.
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Plastic Jersey barriers (Hong Kong, 2008) Hollow polyethylene barriers have been developed for short-term applications where portability is important. These plastic barriers are normally filled with water after placement on-site to provide a moderate level of crash protection, then emptied prior to removal. They are not designed to deflect vehicles, so vehicles may penetrate the barriers.FHWA. "NCHRP Report 350: Devices in Work Zones - Category 3" .
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Two lanes in the middle of the freeway are separated from the eastbound and westbound lanes by Jersey barriers. Due to traffic pattern changes caused by the I-64 reconstruction, the lanes travel eastbound all day. MoDOT regularly monitors traffic patterns of this stretch of I-70 and will adjust the express lane traffic patterns accordingly. These lanes have no entrance or exit ramps, except at the ends.
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The Jersey barriers were overtopped by the mudflow and the potable water system was damaged. Further stabilization took place, and grass was seeded on of BLM land above the flood site. The tribe's first contact with European colonizers was Spanish missionaries beginning in 1776, followed by fur trappers and Jedediah Smith. Spanish slave traders began abducting women in the 1830s, but regular contact didn't occur until Mormon settlers arrived in 1847.
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The four routes travel concurrently for two miles (3 km), passing through interchanges with Todd Drive and Fish Hatchery Road before US 14 leaves south towards Janesville and US 151 north into downtown Madison via Park Street. The four- way concurrency was crossed by a railroad track at the surface until 2007. The crossing was isolated using Jersey barriers until that time. The freeway also had several ramps, which contained driveways that accessed businesses.
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The point eastbound where the turnpike bypasses the Laurel Hill Tunnel to the left (north). The abandoned tunnel can be seen where there is a path of trees removed from the top of the mountain. Notice the jersey barriers end with the beginning of a wide grassy median. From the turnpike's opening in 1940 until the realignment projects, the tunnels were bottlenecks due to reduced speeds with opposing traffic in the same tubes.
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The Marquette–Joliet Bridge is a bridge crossing the Mississippi River, connecting Marquette, Iowa and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Local residents refer to the bridge as the Prairie Bridge or the Marquette Bridge; both terms are used equally. The structure is an automobile bridge about three lanes wide, and is designed to accept Jersey barriers for deck service. It is located between the Black Hawk Bridge, about to the north upstream, and the Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge some south.
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Jersey barriers and F-shape barriers also lift the vehicle as the tires ride up on the angled lower section. For low-speed or low-angle impacts on these barriers, that may be sufficient to redirect the vehicle without damaging the bodywork. The disadvantage is there is a higher likelihood of rollover with a small car than the single slope or step barriers."Frequently Asked Questions: Barriers, Terminals, Transitions, Attenuators, and Bridge Railings", Federal Highway Administration.
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Precast concrete transportation products are used in the construction, safety, and site protection of road, airport, and railroad transportation systems. Products include: box culverts, 3-sided culverts, bridge systems, railroad crossings, railroad ties, sound walls/barriers, Jersey barriers, tunnel segments, concrete barriers, TVCBs, central reservation barriers, bollards, and other transportation products. Precast concrete can also be used to make underpasses, surface-passes, and pedestrian subways. Precast concrete is also used for the rail ways of some rubber-tyred metros.
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All freeway reversible lanes must be separated by "Jersey" barriers in a high-speed roadway setting (which is not the case on arterial treatments). They are typically constructed in the median of freeway facilities and may be one, two or more lanes wide. These characteristics have several associated advantages and disadvantages. A facility that changes direction to serve morning and afternoon traffic can be an efficient solution since it allocates capacity specifically to the most congested direction of travel.
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The road was shown on civil war maps in 1865. The road is a north–south path connecting with Beulah road, and is designated a Snow emergency route. In 2001, SR 618 was closed to civilian traffic, the fort Belvoir installation where traffic is regulated by the Woodlawn Gate which, , only allowed entry from 0500–2100 Monday-Friday with a military identification card. In 2004, the gate was permanently closed to all traffic, with two jersey barriers.
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The Arch also became one of several U.S. monuments placed under restricted airspace during 2002 Fourth of July celebrations. In 2003, , , movable Jersey barriers were installed to impede terrorist attacks on the arch. Later that year, it was announced that these walls were to be replaced by concrete posts encased in metal to be more harmonious with the steel color of the arch. The movable bollards can be manipulated from the park's dispatch center, which has also been upgraded.
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There were records of a flood in 1878, and tribe members recalled large flood events in the 1930s, 1950s, and 1970s. In Fall 2013, a few weeks after the Patch Springs Fire, an intense rainstorm hit the area, causing flooding and mudflows estimated at . The BIA's Burned Area Emergency Response worked on emergency stabilization efforts with Jersey barriers and sandbags. Several flood events occurred almost a year later precipitation around per hour, with flows estimated as high as .
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Starting in 1985, Jersey barriers were installed along its entire length. Kansas Turnpike mileposts are continuous along the entire length of the turnpike. Mile markers begin at the point where I-35 enters Kansas at the southern border. These numbers are continued along the other three Interstates that make up the turnpike, rather than numbering each Interstate individually, leading to discontinuous numbering on I-70—the exit numbers on tolled I-70 are much lower than those on free I-70.
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This is closely followed by diamond interchanges with LA 523 (Ellerbe Road/Line Avenue) and LA 526 (Bert Kouns Industrial Loop) at exits 8 and 9, respectively. Soon afterward, traffic is forced onto exit 10 to an at- grade intersection with LA 523, which connects to LA 1 in an area on the Shreveport city limits known as Lucas. Pavement stubs separated from the exit ramps by Jersey barriers indicate a planned direct connection to LA 1 on the south side of town.
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SC 441 curves to the west-northwest and crosses some railroad tracks. It curves to the north-northwest and intersects U.S. Route 76 (US 76) and US 378 just southwest of Shaw Air Force Base. It curves to the north and north- northwest before traveling through a small portion of the base, with most turn-offs blocked by fences and/or jersey barriers. The highway travels along the northwestern edge of the base and then along the eastern edge of Oakland.
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While median width plays a large role in the occurrence of these crashes, increased width alone does not eliminate them and quite often, the median must be shielded with a barrier. Cable barriers provide a cost-effective solution to the shielding issue. The system is more forgiving than traditional concrete (Jersey) barriers or steel barriers used today and remains effective when installed on sloping terrain. The flexibility of the system absorbs impact energy and dissipates it laterally, which reduces the forces transmitted to the vehicle occupants.
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Structures ranging from scores of Jersey barriers to hundreds of ornamental bollards have been erected to obstruct the path of any vehicles that might stray from the designated roadways. In 2004, the capitol was briefly evacuated after a plane carrying the then governor of Kentucky strayed into restricted airspace over the district. A shooting incident occurred in March 2016. One female bystander was wounded by police but not seriously injured; a man pointing a gun was shot and arrested, in critical but stable condition.
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On 3 May 2018, the Autostrade company had announced a call for tenders for a structural upgrade of the viaduct to the value of €20,159,000, with a deadline of 11 June 2018. The work on the reinforcement of the stays on pillars 9 and 10 would have needed to be finished within five years. Workers were installing new heavy concrete Jersey barriers on the Ponte Morandi before it collapsed, reducing the already low compressive pre-stress on the concrete of the stays and increasing the loads.
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The 29 kilometer long section between M1 and M5 is the oldest section of the M0 motorway and was built between 1988 and 1995. It originally did not comply with formal motorway specifications; it was built as a 2+2 lanes road without hard shoulders. Speed limit on this section was 80 km/h. Initially there were no jersey barriers between the two lanes in each direction, they had to be added some years after the road was completed because reckless drivers overtook in the opposite lane causing many fatal frontal crashes.
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There was once a plan for the highway to continue north into the city of Burlington along the waterfront and service an industrial area. Construction was delayed due to the presence of a toxic barge canal and eventually cancelled as the city largely left behind its industrial past in favor of tourism in the 1980s. The roadway was abandoned just beyond the US 7 interchange. As a result, Jersey barriers are in place on I-189 west directing traffic onto the US 7 off-ramp, orphaning approximately of road, along with a few ramps.
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On a six-lane freeway (i.e., one containing three lanes in each direction), a third lane may be kept open for the busier direction, or the shoulder may be opened to allow for four lanes of traffic but with little or no shoulder space; emergency breakdown areas may be added. In these situations, temporary "YIELD" or "STOP" signs are usually posted on merge ramps on freeways, expressways, and uncontrolled roads with interchanges. In such cases, opposing directions are separated by jersey barriers, or in rare circumstances, traffic cones.
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He'd be involved in two wrecks during the day. On lap 30, when coming out of Turn 7, Martin Truex, Jr. forced him into the grass. When Ragan's car got back onto the racing surface, he clipped Truex from behind, sending Truex into the tire barriers. Later, following a restart on lap 79, Ragan was racing alongside Carl Edwards for position when, coming through the esses in the same spot as Truex's crash, Edwards' car bounced over the outside curb, sending him into Ragan, and sending both cars into the jersey barriers on the inside of the track.
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Barriers meant for short-term placement, especially in military and security barrier uses, might include steel rebar loops embedded in the top surface for rapid hook-and-cable system lifting. The 2010 G-20 Toronto summit used modified modular Jersey barriers with wired fencing bolted onto the concrete. The fence used the barrier as sturdy base to prevent protesters from toppling the fence around the security zone at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The U.S. military nicknamed the devices as "Qaddafi Blocks" after truck bomb attacks in Beirut in 1983 resulted in more widespread use in military installations.
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Contraflow lanes are typically one or two lanes on one side of a dual-carriageway on which the direction of travel is reversed during certain hours. Contraflow lanes are generally separated from opposing traffic by plastic pylons or moveable jersey barriers. A limitation of implementing a reversible flow design is that it cannot serve congestion that may be present in the off-peak traffic direction. If such is the case, then some users, such as deadheading transit buses that need trip reliability to make a second peak direction run during the commute period, will be adversely impacted.
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They blocked streets with Jersey barriers and even emplaced them within homes to create strong points behind which they could attack unsuspecting troops entering the building. Insurgents were equipped with a variety of advanced small arms, and had captured a variety of U.S. armament, including M14s, M16s, body armor, uniforms and helmets. They booby-trapped buildings and vehicles, including wiring doors and windows to grenades and other ordnance. Anticipating U.S. tactics to seize the roof of high buildings, they bricked up stairwells to the roofs of many buildings, creating paths into prepared fields of fire which they hoped the troops would enter.
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A barrier being moved on the Golden Gate Bridge Hinge pin used as the linkage of moveable barriers This large machine was used on the Auckland Harbour Bridge to shift the center lane back and forth to accommodate rush hour traffic. A barrier transfer machine, also known as zipper machine or road zipper, is a heavy vehicle used to transfer concrete lane dividers, such as jersey barriers, which are used to relieve traffic congestion during rush hours. Many other cities use them temporarily during construction work. The lanes created by the machine are sometimes referred to as "zipper lanes".
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The western downgrade of Monteagle Mountain on I-24, while not considered as hazardous, contains many curves, including one "c-shaped" curve, protracted over a distance of almost . The eastbound and westbound lanes are also located very close together, and crossover crashes and crashes with Jersey barriers located in the median in some places are common on this stretch. This segment also features off-ramp approach-style lane dividers, in order to slow both motorists and truckers. The speed limit on the westbound lanes, of this stretch is and for trucks, while on the eastbound lanes it is , with no separate restrictions for trucks.
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A street may be temporarily blocked to all through traffic in order to secure the space for other uses, such as a street fair, a flea market, children at play, filming a movie, or construction work. Many streets are bracketed by bollards or Jersey barriers so as to keep out vehicles. These measures are often taken in a city's busiest areas, the "destination" districts, when the volume of activity outgrows the capacity of private passenger vehicles to support it. A feature universal to all streets is a human-scale design that gives its users the space and security to feel engaged in their surroundings, whatever through traffic may pass.
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The site of the building after it was demolished, three months after the bombing In the weeks following the bombing the federal government ordered that all federal buildings in all major cities be surrounded with prefabricated Jersey barriers to prevent similar attacks. As part of a longer-term plan for United States federal building security most of those temporary barriers have since been replaced with permanent and more aesthetically considerate security barriers, which are driven deep into the ground for sturdiness. Furthermore, all new federal buildings must now be constructed with truck-resistant barriers and with deep setbacks from surrounding streets to minimize their vulnerability to truck bombs. FBI buildings, for instance, must be set back from traffic.
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Defending against a car bomb involves keeping vehicles at a distance from vulnerable targets by using roadblocks and checkpoints, Jersey barriers, concrete blocks or bollards, metal barriers, or by hardening buildings to withstand an explosion. The entrance to Downing Street in London has been closed since 1991 in reaction to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) campaign, preventing the general public from getting near Number 10. Where major public roads pass near buildings, road closures may be the only option (thus, for instance, in Washington, D.C. the portion of Pennsylvania Avenue immediately in front of the White House is closed to traffic). Historically these tactics have encouraged potential bombers to target "soft" or unprotected targets, such as markets.
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The likelihood of head-on collision is at its greatest on roads with narrow lanes, sharp curves, no separation of lanes of opposing traffic and high volumes of traffic. Crash severity, measured as risk of death and injury, and repair costs to vehicles, increases as speed increases. Therefore, the roads with the greatest risk of head-on collision are busy single-carriageway roads outside urban areas where speeds are highest. Contrast this with motorways, which rarely have a high risk of head-on collision in spite of the high speeds involved, because of the median separation treatments such as cable barriers, concrete step barriers, Jersey barriers, metal crash barriers, and wide medians.
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The first HOV lanes on I-40 in Tennessee were opened to traffic on November 14, 1996 with the completion of a project that widened the section between Old Hickory Boulevard in East Nashville and SR 171 in Mt. Juliet from four and six to eight lanes. These were the second set of HOV lanes constructed in Tennessee. This project, which began in early 1995, was also the first in Tennessee to be constructed with split Jersey barriers in the median every few miles to allow police to enforce the HOV lanes from the median. A project to widen I-40 to eight lanes from east of SR 171 to east of SR 109 in Lebanon began in July 2012.
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Public Square's development was showcased during the Cleveland Cavaliers championship parade as a welcome sight with much of the construction materials removed to display the renovation. At first, buses did not run along Superior Avenue as planned, but in order to avoid a $12 million repayment of grants to the Federal Transit Administration, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority agreed to run buses along it by March 2017. The City of Cleveland installed Jersey Barriers along Superior Avenue due to fears of terrorism contrary to the original design. An episode of NBC's American Ninja Warrior was held in Public Square and aired in July 2017 A privately operated cafe, Rebol, located in the southwestern area of Public Square, opened in July 2016.
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A chain reaction as aircraft were being re-fuelled and armed at Bien Hoa South Vietnam, on the morning of 16 May 1965 destroyed 13 aircraft, killed 34 personnel, and injured over 100 – this led to the construction of revetments and shelters to protect aircraft throughout South Vietnam. Aircrew and Ground Personnel will need protection during enemy attacks and fortifications range from culvert section 'duck and cover' shelters to Permanent Air Raid Shelters. Soft locations with high personnel densities such as accommodation and messing facilities can have limited protection by placing prefabricated concrete walls or barriers around them, examples of barriers are Jersey Barriers, T Barriers or Splinter Protection Units (SPUs). Older fortification may prove useful such as the old 'Yugo' pyramid shelters built in the 1980s which were used by US personnel on.
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Begun during World War II to serve the Pentagon, Interstate 395 (I-395) (named the Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway) bisects Arlington as it travels southwest/northeast between the 14th Street Bridge and Alexandria. Until it closed in 1968, the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad's freight trains regularly backed up rush hour traffic and collided with automobiles and trucks as they crossed the highway at grade on tracks guarded by flashing signal lights and ringing bells, but no crossing gates. At the time, this was the only at-grade intersection of a railroad and a limited-access federal highway. Heavily congested during peak hours, the freeway now contains two central lanes that operate as high- occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes during rush hours while separated by Jersey barriers from the road's regular traffic lanes.
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42-inch (110 cm)-high variation of the Jersey barrier known as an Ontario Tall Wall, used to deflect vehicles from crossing into the opposing lanes of traffic 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 vehicle crossovers resulting in a likely 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 also is known as a K-rail, a term stipulated in the California Department of Transportation specification for temporary concrete traffic barriers, or colloquially, as a Jersey bump.
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In North America, and some other countries with large sparsely populated areas, opposing lanes of traffic may be separated by several hundred meters of fields or forests outside of heavily populated areas (an extreme example being the Trans-Canada Highway near Ernfold, Saskatchewan, Canada, where eastbound and westbound lanes go as far as apart from each other), but converge to a lane's width of separation in suburban areas and cities. In urban areas, concrete barriers (such as Jersey barriers) and guard rails (or guide rails) are used. In Dedham, Massachusetts, the Norfolk County Correctional Center (a state prison) is located entirely within a wide median of Massachusetts Route 128. This 502-bed facility was opened in 1993 as infill construction in the previously-unused real estate which had been isolated by the divided highway in the early 1950s.
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In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Forrestal Building was identified as one of several federal buildings at high risk of terrorist attack due to its location near the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall and because of the work it does (nuclear weapons development). In July 2003, the National Capital Planning Commission approved preliminary perimeter security enhancements for the Forrestal Building. These included the placement of bollards at pedestrian entrances, and a low wall of plinths next to the sidewalks. In 2004, DOE added jersey barriers along 10th Street and around the median running down the middle of L'Enfant Promenade (the esplanade), blocked off the taxicab stands, built temporary guard booths on the 10th Street median, and successfully petitioned the District of Columbia Department of Transportation to ban truck traffic along the northernmost portion of 10th Street.
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ESPN was live for the June 12, 1988, Budweiser 400 race at RIR and caught racer Ruben Garcia crashing hard off turn 9 and his car went through a tire/guardrail barrier and then goes through the fence, destroys a cement barrier before coming to rest near a fence where the fans were sitting on the 32nd lap. He was not injured, though, and neither were the race fans, the red flag was out for 25 minutes and 5 seconds to make repairs to the area by adding 2 Jersey barriers. After 14 years of NASCAR as a driver and later a car owner, Richard Childress won his first NASCAR race in 1983, when Ricky Rudd drove his #3 Piedmont Airlines Chevrolet to victory in the 1983 Budweiser 400k. From 1981 until 1987, NASCAR's championship race was at Riverside. The USAC Championship Trail also held their season ending race from 1967 to 1969.
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