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I don't understand that the attenuator wasn't reset. In my country the lane will stay closed until all safety feature are operational again, including replacing

• delfinom 7y ago
  Yea so in America, transportation departments are either underfunded, overworked and other times delayed due to contracting laws. So instead of some guy coming out to replace the attenuator, they need to by law put out a contract to hire some guy and go through a months long process to approve it. If they don't, some random guy might sue them for not putting it out to bid, etc, etc. It's just never ending stupid. Where I live, there's a guardrail that is so heavily bent out of shape from constant crashes that it needs some serious replacement because it'll eventually give and allow cars to fly into the opposite lanes. The problem is there was already a contract to replace 10 miles of guardrail issued a year ago and the contractor has not reached this part of the road yet. The DoT can't just go replace it themselves early.