Meanings
plural New Jersey barriers
- alternativeAlternative form of Jersey barrier.
The New Jersey barrier became the most widely used and gave its name to the generic barrier type.
2013, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Site and Urban Design for Security, page 4-302 more examples
Rigid barriers are often shaped concrete barriers like the F-shape median barrier, the New Jersey barrier, the Ontario tall wall, and so forth.
2005, Chuck A. Plaxico, Recommended Guidelines for Curb and Curb-barrier Installations, Issue 537, →ISBNA guardrail had to be erected on the neighboring home's front lawn, a busy ashram, after someone drove a car into their meditation room. But there isn't a New Jersey barrier before the big windows of Susan's museum.
2003, Maria Flook, Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod, →ISBN
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