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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.


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.


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/c2...

Living with the graffiti seems like a strictly lesser problem than living with a road ending in a missing bridge.


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.


A 10’ long, 32” high jersey barrier weighs 4,000 lbs




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