The Michigan Department of Transportation plans to install more steel cable guardrails to the median of I-94. The new rails are being credited with helping to save the lives of ten church group members who were in a van that crashed on the highway near Coloma last week. MDOT's Nick Schirippa says that the cable guard rails are intended to stop cars from crossing the median into the opposite side of traffic, and that's just what one did last week:
The cable guardrail involved in last week's crash is only the first to be installed in Berrien County:
Others are planned for I-94 from the Indiana state line to New Buffalo...from US-12 to the I-94 Business Loop in Stevensville...and from Park Road in Benton Township to the Kalamazoo-Van Buren County line. They're inexpensive, but difficult to install, since the posts have to be rather deep in the ground. In all, Michigan is adding 280 miles of the cable guardrails over three years.
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