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<blockquote data-quote="Running Arrow Bill" data-source="post: 388370" data-attributes="member: 9"><p>Ok...</p><p></p><p>A "Bar Ditch" is often 50 feet or so wide and gradually sloped from pavement to someone's fence line...like a saucer. About the only interruptions in the long ditches would be drainage culverts, creeks, rivers, or other highway construction things. Often the lowest center point in the ditch would be only about one to two feet lower than the pavement. Medians between double highways about the same curvature and probably 20-30 feet wide.</p><p></p><p>Unless you run into a creek or other serious depression (or obstruction such as the highway cut out of a hill resulting in minimal "ditch" between the hill and the pavement, many of the bar ditches a "country driver" could drive 40-50 mph down one without any problem. Of course, when there is an entrance to someone's farm or place, there would be a raised entry with a steel culvert running lengthwise to the ditch with packed gravel & sand on top to make a level entry into that place...don't want to hit the end of one of these at 50 mph...lol.</p><p></p><p>Another Texas thing is that there is usually an 8' wide paved shoulder between the outside lane of the highway and the beginning of the bar ditches. Of course, there are exceptions to all this.</p><p></p><p>Even some of the "county" paved (or graded dirt) roads have enough ditch to drive in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running Arrow Bill, post: 388370, member: 9"] Ok... A "Bar Ditch" is often 50 feet or so wide and gradually sloped from pavement to someone's fence line...like a saucer. About the only interruptions in the long ditches would be drainage culverts, creeks, rivers, or other highway construction things. Often the lowest center point in the ditch would be only about one to two feet lower than the pavement. Medians between double highways about the same curvature and probably 20-30 feet wide. Unless you run into a creek or other serious depression (or obstruction such as the highway cut out of a hill resulting in minimal "ditch" between the hill and the pavement, many of the bar ditches a "country driver" could drive 40-50 mph down one without any problem. Of course, when there is an entrance to someone's farm or place, there would be a raised entry with a steel culvert running lengthwise to the ditch with packed gravel & sand on top to make a level entry into that place...don't want to hit the end of one of these at 50 mph...lol. Another Texas thing is that there is usually an 8' wide paved shoulder between the outside lane of the highway and the beginning of the bar ditches. Of course, there are exceptions to all this. Even some of the "county" paved (or graded dirt) roads have enough ditch to drive in. [/QUOTE]
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