This report will familiarize designers with current barrier design options, and encourage appropriate aesthetic considerations to develop visually pleasing context sensitive solutions for highway projects. Technical guidelines allow integral color, paint, stain, and subtle textures to be incorporated with concrete barriers placed on highway transportation projects. These guidelines address highway corridor aesthetic issues, and respond to concerns from local communities and agencies for more barrier design alternatives that are context sensitive without compromising safety considerations. This report will familiarize designers with current barrier design options, and encourage appropriate aesthetic considerations to develop visually pleasing context sensitive solutions for highway projects. Technical guidelines allow integral color, paint, stain, and subtle textures to be incorporated with concrete barriers placed on highway transportation projects. These guidelines address highway corridor aesthetic issues, and respond to concerns from local communities and agencies for more barrier design alternatives that are context sensitive without compromising safety considerations.

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California Highway Barrier Aesthetics