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Updated: 10:24 AM Nov 27, 2009
Deficient Guardrails Along Blue Ridge Parkway to be Replaced
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) Old-fashioned all-wood guardrails along more than half the 460-mile Blue Ridge Parkway aren't much use at stopping cars. A $7 million replacement project will start next month and should wrap up by June 2011.
Posted: 10:24 AM Nov 27, 2009Email Address: news@newsplex.com |
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November 27, 2009
Old-fashioned all-wood guardrails along more than half the 460-mile Blue Ridge Parkway aren't much use at stopping cars.
Mike Molling, chief of maintenance and engineering for the parkway, says the older rails can't stop a car moving at 45 MPH, and that many are too low to the ground to be effective at all.
A $7 million replacement project three years in the making will start next month and should wrap up by June 2011.
Molling says the new rails are made of steel-backed timber and can hold back cars traveling at the speed limit along the parkway.
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