there’s word that cable barriers are soon to be installed on our stretch of the 401 is a good news/bad news situation.
That’s according to Alysson Storey, the organizer behind the Build the Barrier campaign.
“We are happy that there’s going to be some kind of barrier in place,” Storey explains. “There’s a lot of transports on our stretch, and the problem with the cable (barrier) is that it doesn’t protect the drivers of the transports or other drivers on the road.”
Storey says the summer months are actually the deadly ones on the 401 and she’s worried this year will be as bad as 2017.
While Tuesday’s crash wasn’t a crossover, Storey says with a turn left instead of right, it would have been.
“It’s a dangerous road, people aren’t paying attention, people aren’t slowing down, people aren’t looking at the signs in the construction areas,” Storey says. “When you get the safety upgrades like longer shoulders, paved median, median barriers, that does improve the safety infrastructure overall, and we’re hopeful that once all this gets put into place, types of accidents like these will become much lower than they are right now.”
Storey adds that improved police presence would be good, but it isn’t realistic to expect every inch of the 401 be patrolled 24/7.