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Guardrail debate shows need to challenge traditions

Chris Evans, Director, GPE Consulting, Birmingham
20 August 2010
 

I have read with much interest the ongoing debate on pedestrian guardrailing particularly as I was responsible for implementing a major junction improvement scheme for Transport for London that removed all guardrail before the days of Kensington High Street.

Our industry continually talks of innovation and challenging the norm, yet I still meet many an engineer who is happy to say that something is designed correctly because “it’s been done like that somewhere else”.

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