[dd74]

It seems that there are two inherent problems with the K-rail. The first is will a person know how to crash into it; that, for the rail to be effective, one needs to continually steer into the rail for it to catch and slow the car. More often drivers simply bounce off the rail and back into traffic, causing an even larger incident.

The second problem: strength. A couple years ago on the Hollywood Freeway, a tractor-trailer crashed right through one and killed, IIRC, about five motorists on the opposite side of the freeway.

In my opinion, the K-rail is another stop gap, at least for SoCal and CalTrans, who have stripped from the freeways the breakdown/crash lane in effort to create more lanes for our increasing freeway traffic - a very bad move if you ask me.