Bollards

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Smartasses, they are!

Genius!

Bill "credit where due" S.

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Smartasses, they are!

Genius!

Bill "credit where due" S.

Evidence of the moronic behaviour of a minority? of U.K. drivers (pedals off
sniggering)

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Bill Sornson said:

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Smartasses, they are!

Genius!

Motor vehicles getting speared by extensible bollards - there has to be
an off-color joke in there somewhere?

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Smartasses, they are!

Genius!

Bill "credit where due" S.

A big badass American SUV would take care of those things :<😉

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Smartasses, they are!

Jobst Brandt

Gee, I thought that dangerous features implemented in ways to
endanger unsuspecting drivers and damage their vehicles were a
uniquely US feature. It's good to know stupidity is worldwide.

still me said:

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Smartasses, they are!

Jobst Brandt

Gee, I thought that dangerous features implemented in ways to
endanger unsuspecting drivers and damage their vehicles were a
uniquely US feature. It's good to know stupidity is worldwide.

Did you see the big warning sign before the narrowing of the road?
Notice the away the drivers were tailgating the buses?

The lady in the first crash was even parked in front of the bollards when
they were raised before backing out and trying to sneak across behind a
bus.

My money says that all of these drivers knew the bollards were there and
were trying flaunting the law to take a shortcut. Te stupidity lies with
the drivers

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still me said:

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Smartasses, they are!

Jobst Brandt

Gee, I thought that dangerous features implemented in ways to
endanger unsuspecting drivers and damage their vehicles were a
uniquely US feature. It's good to know stupidity is worldwide.

What makes you think they were unsuspecting? For one thing, there
appear to be huge signs to either side of the roadway indicating no
admittance. There's no doubt the first driver knew the bollards were there
-- he pulled out to let the bus through and then tried to sneak past by
following in the bus's wake. The other two drivers also appear to be
trying to speed through the opening created by a bus. They tried to beat
the system -- endangering pedestrians in the process -- and got busted.

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Smartasses, they are!

Indeed.

But whatever are those "bollards" about? What's the context, traffic control?
Secure locations? "Traffic calming" civil engineering that just pisses everyone
off? One of those incidents looked as if the vehicle driver didn't know
something was up. Do these things just pop up around town like some subterranean
predator?

Ron
Ain't been out much lately.

RonSonic said:

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Smartasses, they are!

Indeed.

But whatever are those "bollards" about? What's the context, traffic control?
Secure locations? "Traffic calming" civil engineering that just pisses everyone
off? One of those incidents looked as if the vehicle driver didn't know
something was up. Do these things just pop up around town like some subterranean
predator?

Ron
Ain't been out much lately.

Dear Ron,

Sometimes I forget that many RBT posters don't read uk.rec.cycling, so
they miss this sort of thing:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.cycling/browse_frm/thread/6bbc11adc76609f/03394c35f62209ff?lnk=gst&q=rising+bollards+marry&rnum=1&hl=en#03394c35f62209ff

As Tony's thread points out, the drivers usually lie, but they've
repeatedly been shown to know exactly what's going on.

They're just trying to blast through the no-cars pedestrian
intersection behind the bus, endangering everyone visible in the
videos.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Ron Sonic? writes:

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Smartasses, they are!

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Indeed.

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But whatever are those "bollards" about? What's the context,
traffic control? Secure locations? "Traffic calming" civil
engineering that just pisses everyone off? One of those incidents
looked as if the vehicle driver didn't know something was up. Do
these things just pop up around town like some subterranean
predator?

They are used to separate pedestrian malls from auto traffic, allowing
public transit to serves the mall. We have those right here where I
live, except that they are 10" in diameter (for monster SUV's) and are
used to keep cars out of pedestrian/bicycle areas.

The city center of Brig Switzerland is bollard off, for instance an I
like it. I'm sure they are common in many advanced city centers. It
beats getting out and unlocking a steel post to be manually moved and
replaced after passage.

Jobst Brandt

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Smartasses, they are!

Jobst Brandt

Fantastic. Dumb drivers. I hope the kid in the Merc was ok.

Marz said:

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Jobst Brandt

Fantastic. Dumb drivers. I hope the kid in the Merc was ok.

Merc?

Lou
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Smartasses, they are!

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Fantastic. Dumb drivers. I hope the kid in the Merc was ok.

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Merc?

You know, the car with the three pointed star from Untertürkheim.

Jobst Brandt

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Lou Holtman writes:

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> Smartasses, they are!

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Fantastic. Dumb drivers. I hope the kid in the Merc was ok.

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Merc?

You know, the car with the three pointed star from Untertürkheim.

Jobst Brandt

Ja, Ich weiss was ein Mercedes ist, aber I glaube das war kein Mercedes.

Lou
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Smartasses, they are!

Jobst Brandt

I don't have any sympathy for the drivers. But it seems that design
is _incredibly_ dangerous for pedestrians. There is a crosswalk about
1 car length or so before the bollards, and note how some pedestrians
almost got run over when drivers' tried to blast through.

I nominate the driver of the black SUV for the Darwin Award.

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Smartasses, they are!

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Genius!

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Bill "credit where due" S.

A big badass American SUV would take care of those things :<😉

A big badass American SUV would be losing an axle instead of a
bumper. Much more fun to watch though.

RonSonic said:

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Smartasses, they are!

Indeed.

But whatever are those "bollards" about?

Government control. The brits are wussy socialists.

What's the context, traffic control?

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Secure locations? "Traffic calming" civil engineering that just pisses everyone
off? One of those incidents looked as if the vehicle driver didn't know
something was up. Do these things just pop up around town like some subterranean
predator?

Ron
Ain't been out much lately.

still me said:

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http://tinyurl.com/ybfsmj

Smartasses, they are!

Jobst Brandt

Gee, I thought that dangerous features implemented in ways to
endanger unsuspecting drivers and damage their vehicles were a
uniquely US feature. It's good to know stupidity is worldwide.

Where these bollards are in use, there are usually BIG signs indicating
"NO ENTRY" or "BUSES ONLY". In many cases, a mini-roundabout gives
non-bus traffic a chance to turn around before running headlong into the
bollards.

It's not as if the bollards are being deployed randomly, although that
would be fun.

Also, to those people who think a badass SUV would conquer these--keep
dreaming. The hydraulics that run these bollards easily lift SUVs off the
ground.

-Luigi

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RonSonic said:

But whatever are those "bollards" about? What's the context, traffic
control? Secure locations? "Traffic calming" civil engineering that just
pisses everyone off?

All of the above?

As other posters here indicated, they're usually used on roads that enter
pedestrianized areas. The center of Cambridge in England, for instance,
is closed to automobile traffic during the day, but open to buses and
bicycles. The bollards control those entrances.

I think they're brilliant. Here stateside, I am annoyed to no end when
people drive in the bus lane of my local Metro station. Rising bollards
would put a stop to that.

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Luigi de Guzman
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