{"id":240,"date":"2010-04-06T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2025-01-09T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:12:46","slug":"traffic-barriers-meant-to-protect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/traffic-barriers-meant-to-protect\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Barriers &#8211; Meant to Protect?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"240\" class=\"elementor elementor-240\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58252519 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"58252519\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2266ac68 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2266ac68\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/MB42x72JSS.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[240]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-241\" title=\"traffic barriers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/MB42x72JSS.jpg\" alt=\"traffic barriers, traffic barrier, barrier barricade, barrier barricades, orange barricades, jersey style barriers, jersey barriers, plastic barriers\" width=\"164\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><a title=\"traffic barriers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/c\/76\/traffic-barriers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traffic barriers<\/a> can be made of concrete or plastic, and the plastic ones are usually hollow on the inside so that they can be filled with sand and\/or water.\u00a0 Keep in mind these can also be called &#8216;barrier barricades&#8217;.\u00a0 Now, my question is, how can a concrete barrier really be safe for a car to hit?<\/p><p>There are a lot of traffic barriers out there that are approved by all sorts of traffic safety standard, but how much do they &#8216;protect&#8217; a car when you hit it?\u00a0 I would assume a concrete barrier is not as forgiving as a sand filled plastic one, but I could be wrong.\u00a0 Many of these barriers are supposed to be designed so that the cars &#8216;bounce back&#8217;&#8230;how safe is that?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic barriers can be made of concrete or plastic, and the plastic ones are usually hollow on the inside so that they can be filled with sand and\/or water.\u00a0 Keep in mind these can also be called &#8216;barrier barricades&#8217;.\u00a0 Now, my question is, how can a concrete barrier really be safe for a car to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,125,134,133,132,135,57,73],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation-safety","tag-barrier-barricade","tag-barrier-barricades","tag-jersey-barriers","tag-jersey-style-barriers","tag-orange-barricades","tag-plastic-barriers","tag-traffic-barrier","tag-traffic-barriers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}