[raydan]

Yup, I'm around.

Thanks AR, I see what you mean but I still think the idea was to catch the car, not throw it back into the highway.

Technology gone wrong.

[Brenda]

Any idea what happens when you lay your bike down and slide into that?

[raydan]

Brenda Brenda:

Any idea what happens when you lay your bike down and slide into that?

Nobody has survived to tell.

[DrCaleb]

Brenda Brenda:

Any idea what happens when you lay your bike down and slide into that?

Something like when you put a boiled egg into a wire slicer. But it's probably better than sliding into oncoming traffic.

[Khar]

Glad I wasn't the only one outside today, except I had to make the fun journey all the way to Edmonton after staying a while in Calgary, and then I'm heading back down again in a month. Hopefully the next drive will be nicer, I'm happy I put off driving up here for a few days to avoid the worst of the weather along the trip.

There was quite a few cars in the ditch (I'd estimate I saw 50 still in the ditch during the drive, with about 50 spots where they'd recently been dug out), and I can see why the implemented those cables because of that. There were a few big rigs which were stopped by them, several of them facing directly into the lane I was driving by them in. I would guess they put them so close to the road on one side because cars typically come flying off the road from the other side, and that gives them adequate time to be slowed before hitting the wire?

There was one section where it was on both sides of the road, fairly close to the pavement, and if it is sling-shotting them back into traffic than I'm at a loss then. Maybe making sure cars don't go flying into a more dangerous area for cars to go off the road? It was interesting to read this thread and the next day heading out to see it first hand.

[PostFactum]

That's not justly, there you have so much snow that you can't go out of the house and here everything is melting)))

[martin14]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Brenda Brenda:

Any idea what happens when you lay your bike down and slide into that?

Something like when you put a boiled egg into a wire slicer. But it's probably better than sliding into oncoming traffic.

Oncoming traffic = maybe something there, maybe not, maybe they see you in time,
maybe maybe maybe.

That garrote only equals death.

Nice to see the province really cares about its people.