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  2. Guard rail - Wikipedia

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    Guardrail protecting expensive machinery. The majority of safety guardrails used in industrial workplaces are made from fabricated steel. Steel guardrail was originally developed by Armco (The American Rolling Mill Company) in 1933 as highway guardrail but is often used in the factories and warehouses of the industrial sector, despite not being intended for this application. [4]

  3. Traffic barrier - Wikipedia

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    Traffic barrier with a pedestrian guardrail behind it. Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, [1] in Britain as crash barriers, [2] and in auto racing as Armco barriers [3]) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains ...

  4. Cable barrier - Wikipedia

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    In places, such as Arizona, there is indication that the state government agency in charge of highway regulation failed to follow proper installation procedures. [8] Apparently there are internal government documents which show that the Arizona Department of Transportation was aware of cable barrier problems, and they may have also rushed ...

  5. New generation of guardrails in Loudon County promises safety ...

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    Sicking Safety Systems designed guardrails that have passed collision tests at 77.5 mph, faster than any other guardrail in the country as far as the designers are aware.

  6. Guide rail - Wikipedia

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    There is no legal distinction between a guide rail and a guard rail. According to the US Federal Highway Administration, the terms guardrail and guiderail are synonymous. [5] Several types of roadway guide rail exist; all are engineered to guide vehicular traffic on roads or bridges. Such systems include W-beam, box beam, cable, and concrete ...

  7. How much does Iowa DOT pay to repair damaged guardrails ... - AOL

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    Have you noticed damaged guardrails while driving Iowa's interstates? Iowa DOT says January's snowstorms there are a lot of repairs to be made.

  8. Guard rail (rail transport) - Wikipedia

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    Guard rails at Diêu Trì railway station, Vietnam This curved track in Myanmar, near Pekon, includes a guard rail on the inside rail of the curve. In rail transport, guard rails or check rails are rails used in the construction of the track, placed parallel to regular running rail to keep the wheels of rolling stock in alignment to prevent derailment.

  9. Licensed to drive? Gen Z — and their parents — increasingly ...

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    That’s why graduated licensing exists in the first place — to put up guardrails around new drivers during their most risky years of driving. But in nearly every state, graduated licensing ...