01-03-2016, 09:42 PM
(12-31-2015, 05:28 PM)The85 Wrote:Are the acrylic/tempered glass panels shown in the above GOOGLE maps link, tethered in for safety or are they being warmed in the winter? Look at the top of each panel in the sections over the roadway below?(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?https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.1750619,-...312!8i6656
Is it purely for aesthetics? Safety reasons? Better lighting? To allow for greater solar snow melting in winter? Cheaper? Better sound abatement?
Thanks.
Something else? Just for #Ss&Gs? Burgler alarms?