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Being rarely used is an advantage, though. You can solve the safety hazard component of the problem with a few hundred dollars worth of signs and barriers, rat

Being rarely used is an advantage, though. You can solve the safety hazard component of the problem with a few hundred dollars worth of signs and barriers, rather than by actually repairing the thing. The convenience part can then be ignored.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
If you do this in a college town or something, have fun replacing those signs and barriers every few weeks, as they are graffitied, vandalized and stolen.
- alistairSH 3y ago
  Ideally, the concrete jersey barriers are temporary until the bridge is either repaired or dismantled appropriately (with proper road closure on both sides). It still blows my mind that a bridge on an otherwise publicly accessible road was privately owned and maintained. That's a new one to me - around here, there are plenty of private neighborhood roads, but none have bridges.
- caf 3y ago
  It'd be quite a feat to steal or meaningfully vandalise a concrete crash barrier like this: https://www.jaybro.com.au/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/c2ce29bbfe5e027ff0a0343321477cfb/u/s/used-concrete-barriers.jpg https://www.jaybro.com.au/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/c2... Living with the graffiti seems like a strictly lesser problem than living with a road ending in a missing bridge.
- quickthrowman 3y ago
  A 10’ long, 32” high jersey barrier weighs 4,000 lbs
- amalcon 3y ago
  My parents live in a community where one of the roads is named something like "High Street" (not actually that; it's a little road within their development). That sign gets stolen a few times a year by college students from the next town over because it includes the word "high". They have never had a road barrier stolen or meaningfully damaged, though -- they have maybe a dozen in various places. They budget about $50/year to replace the signs. Still much less, even over rather a long period, than the cost of rebuilding a bridge.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago

If you do this in a college town or something, have fun replacing those signs and barriers every few weeks, as they are graffitied, vandalized and stolen.

alistairSH 3y ago
Ideally, the concrete jersey barriers are temporary until the bridge is either repaired or dismantled appropriately (with proper road closure on both sides). It still blows my mind that a bridge on an otherwise publicly accessible road was privately owned and maintained. That's a new one to me - around here, there are plenty of private neighborhood roads, but none have bridges.
caf 3y ago
It'd be quite a feat to steal or meaningfully vandalise a concrete crash barrier like this: https://www.jaybro.com.au/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/c2ce29bbfe5e027ff0a0343321477cfb/u/s/used-concrete-barriers.jpg https://www.jaybro.com.au/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/c2... Living with the graffiti seems like a strictly lesser problem than living with a road ending in a missing bridge.
quickthrowman 3y ago
A 10’ long, 32” high jersey barrier weighs 4,000 lbs
amalcon 3y ago
My parents live in a community where one of the roads is named something like "High Street" (not actually that; it's a little road within their development). That sign gets stolen a few times a year by college students from the next town over because it includes the word "high". They have never had a road barrier stolen or meaningfully damaged, though -- they have maybe a dozen in various places. They budget about $50/year to replace the signs. Still much less, even over rather a long period, than the cost of rebuilding a bridge.