Dumb median design - anyone else see this?

[89AKurt]

This is AZ69 going to Prescott, AZ.  They have a section getting a new median installed.  I never saw where asphalt (tarmac, bitumen, paving, whatever) is used as the foundation for concrete work.   For some reason Arizona can't lay roadways that don't fall apart when it rains/snows.   I'm just using some not-so Common Sense, would the freeze-thaw cycle push that concrete up and break it?  Drilling into the road, what could go wrong?

This is a continuous curb.

Much of this stretch has these cross drainage things, with nice sharp corners to blow out tires and wreck suspensions if you scrape the curb.  They cut the asphalt for those, but the curbs are on top of the road surface.

The last picture location, I could have been killed by someone who had a heart attack and crossed the yellow line (decades ago), 3 people died behind me.   I know the purpose of this median is to stop that, but I see new problems.

Anyone else see this in other locations?

[stitchdup]

Leith walk in edinburgh is laid out awfully. It has a pavement (sidewalk to you guys) with a cycle lane in the middle of the footpath, then the bus stops on the gap between the cycle lane and the road/tramway which you have to cross to catch a bus, then to catch a tram you have to stand in the middle of the road, and the same on the other side. There is no signage to say who has right of way, every junction now crosses over the stupidly designed pavement and the cycle lane has no speed limit so just eats and those guys are doing 40 and 50mph through an area full of tourists that are used to common sense streets, not this mess that seems to have been designed by a drunken toddler with anger issues. At some points of the street you have to cross 4 different roads just to cross one road because its so badly laid out. 

[Xingu]

How else can you continually receive government money for road repairs, if you don’t design the need for road repairs into your road repairs.

[1972coronet]

Perhaps the dumbest traffic-flow "improvement" I encountered while travelling through Arizona was those asinine traffic circles on US 60 !