Miles and miles of new sod really worth it on 169?

[EricP]

quote:Originally posted by Ed W

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

They are very cheap/easy to repair and installed at a fraction of the cost of other physical barriers and far less lethal.

"Far less lethal" for motorists.  Don't hit one on a motorcycle.  It's wrong to install something that benefits one type of road user while increasing the hazards for another.

Saves more lives.. hard to argue with that. I would advocate not driving your car OR motorcycle into a cable barrier. It should be protecting you from other drunken idiots coming through.

[sauerkraut]

I like it. I think it looks good, Also, I bet if they made 169 a toll road there would not be as much traffic on it, 169 needs to be wider or something too many cars.. I wish they would do something about the western part of I-44 west of Yale street. The road is too narrow, some parts have pot holes. They said two years ago they were going to make that road wider. What gives? Tulsa roads do need alot of work.[B)]

[TurismoDreamin]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

quote:Originally posted by Ed W

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

They are very cheap/easy to repair and installed at a fraction of the cost of other physical barriers and far less lethal.

"Far less lethal" for motorists.  Don't hit one on a motorcycle.  It's wrong to install something that benefits one type of road user while increasing the hazards for another.

When "one type of motorist" makes up 99% of them, I'll take it.

Agreed. So get clotheslined by the cable barriers or cross the median and get clobbered by oncoming traffic...either way, you're not escaping the organ donor predisposition of riding a bike on the highway.

I kinda wouldn't be surprised if a certain sport bike that excessively speeds and cuts between cars that block his way on Highway 75 every morning at around 8 A.M. laid his bike down into one of those barriers.

By the way, what's deal with the cable barriers on Highway 75 between I-44 and I-244? The work is incomplete and it's been that way since they were last there (Septemberish 08?). The contractor is supposedly getting fined $500/day until it is completed. They stopped work back in the summer because of all the rain and were suppose to resume in August but they never finished...

[Gaspar]

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

spray over seeding (with the straw/glue mixture fr cover) would work just as well for about 1/10th the cost.  Not like anyone comments on how nice the median lawn is.

Yes that works very well, but with night time temps (and daytime) below 55 degrees, sod is the only option.  It holds the soil until spring when the roots finish the process.

The only thing you can spray this time of year is Poanna Bluegrass and I don't think anyone wants us to do that.

Sod is about it.