tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post3483699682367469515..comments2024-03-27T12:56:38.992-07:00Comments on The Skeptical Bureaucrat: Merklestein Monday: Toronto's Christmas Market is "Safer Than Last Year" TSBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-55796587588739084932017-12-16T14:27:45.121-08:002017-12-16T14:27:45.121-08:00Crash test results are uniformly negative. Jersey ...Crash test results are uniformly negative. Jersey barriers are surprisingly ineffective against perpendicular hits, even low-speed ones, even when in double rows and even if cabled together. Their shape will deflect vehicles in lateral hits (for highway-safety) but that doesn't transfer to ramming attacks. <br /><br />The best anti-ram use you can make of them is to create a sand bin maybe four-plus feet wide. But, they're cheap and universally available, so they get used a lot. <br /><br />Recent tests of Euro-type (rectangular) highway barriers paid for by German news media: <br /> <br />http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=german%2c+crash+test+jersey+barriers&view=detail&mid=AA529E7933E73506D3B6AA529E7933E73506D3B6&FORM=VIRE TSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-4393620860828835742017-12-16T02:30:54.744-08:002017-12-16T02:30:54.744-08:00Skep,
I think the Jersey barriers would work even ...Skep,<br />I think the Jersey barriers would work even surface mounted if they put in two parallel lines of them. As they are designed to throw a vehicle upwards, the first one would do that and the vehicle would hang on the second, even large trucks.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-41083123520359991862017-12-14T20:36:47.138-08:002017-12-14T20:36:47.138-08:00TSB: It's not going to be easy for Trump or an...TSB: It's not going to be easy for Trump or anybody else to "MAGA" after this Nobel Laureate Princeton Economist discovered this: Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Mortality among US men and women between 50 and 54 age have been climbing since 1990 while the rest of the world's advanced countries have seen it decline. His conclusion: The US has utterly destroyed it's middle class economy for the past 30 years. gwb<br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/sites a/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/12/14/2017.12.14%20-%20Deaton%202.JPG<br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-14/nobel-laureate-discovers-cause-opioid-crisis-complete-economic-destruction-white-worAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-81914875267393688392017-12-14T05:10:48.965-08:002017-12-14T05:10:48.965-08:00TSB:We didn't learn much from "Road Kill ...TSB:We didn't learn much from "Road Kill Rosenstein" yesterday except to notice that the Democrats on the Committee hate to see the truth come out and are united in their love of the Russia did it meme. Trey Gowdy gave his best summary for the jury ever. Fortunately, "C-Span cameras were there to record it for posterity.http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-13/gowdy-absolutely-destroys-farcical-mueller-probe-nothing-compromised-political-witch<br />gwbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com