Originally Posted by Helmet Head
I still think you shouldn't be riding in the gore, but if they can put up posts to make it more visible, so much the better.
In this case the barriers were put in to prevent cars from cutting into adjacent lanes instead of merging properly. Since the posts would improve the performance of the original intent adding them in seems like a good idea. (And a car at night or glare times coule still make the same mistake the OP did with even worse consequences as things stand now).