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Solar Powered Barricade Lights

What is the difference between a solar and a battery powered barricade light?  Well, price for one thing.  It can cost as much as $35 for a solar barricade light, versus $15 or so for a battery powered barricade light. Of course, you don’t end up paying as much in batteries when you go solar, […]

Traffic Barriers

What exactly are traffic barriers?  Well they are a couple different things, depending on the type of traffic barrier.  There are concrete barriers, plastic barriers filled with sand or water, and other types of barriers.  Plastic barriers are usually recyclable and stack able as well. Traffic barriers are used to guide vehicles or pedestrians, or […]

Type 2 Barricades

So, what exactly are type 2 barricades?  Well, look to the right, and you will probably recognize these traffic barricades from a road construction project in your town or on the highway.  They are called “type 2” because they have two boards. Type 2 barricades commonly have barricade lights attached to them so that they […]

Traffic Channelizers

How much does a traffic channelizer cost?  What do traffic channelizers look like?  What are other names for traffic channelizers?  This post is going to try and answer those questions.  A traffic channelizer can cost as much as $50, depending on the density of the plastic and the grade of the reflective tape. There are […]

Cost of Traffic Message Boards

Traveling down the highway you may come across these signs that are picture on the left.  These can be called traffic message boards or arrow boards.  They are used to inform drivers, for example, it could say “road work ahead” or “heavy traffic slow down.” There are many different types of traffic message boards, so […]

Navigating the Urban Sprawl

Living near a major city like Seattle, sometimes I just hate having to drive. While I do take the bus a lot of the time, sometimes I need to drive into the heart of the city, and it’s a real pain with all the one-way streets, obscure stoplights, and construction sites with traffic cones littering […]