Guardrails: Only for people in cars from Greater Greater Washington by Miriam Schoenbaum
https://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=11655
[B’ Spokes: Miriam raises a good question, after all, would you want your house to be the bumper stop for a car runaway zone? According to SHA it seems the goal is to protect the cars from things along side the road and not things along side the road from cars.]
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Additional coverage: https://streetsblog.net/2011/08/16/maryland-sha-guardrails-are-for-protecting-cars-not-people/
Here’s where it gets ridiculous: she was told no — because in Maryland, guardrails aren’t for protecting people from cars, they’re only for protecting cars from dangerous objects.
Her family members? Not dangerous to cars. So, no guard rails needed!