12-31-2015, 04:58 PM
(12-31-2015, 04:28 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: Can someone explain why the noise barriers on the new 7/8 overpasses (Westmount, etc.) are transparent (acrylic?) and different from the rest of the barriers along the 7/8?
Is it purely for aesthetics? Safety reasons? Better lighting? To allow for greater solar snow melting in winter? Cheaper? Better sound abatement?
Thanks.
I don't know the reasons but Europe moved to acrylic/plexiglass barriers about ten years ago.