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Bollards: Why & What
In bollards we trust
Just thought that a good protocol would be to charge insurance companies to install a bollard or two every time there's an incident where a driver mounts a pavement. Bollards everywhere!
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- Andrewbanshee 1 sec ago
A bit of mental gymnastics here https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/24325747.betters-laws-cycling-stop-...
- LeadenSkies 8 min 23 sec ago
As someone whose mum is visually impaired and in her 80s, I feel able to comment here. She is occasionally startled by cyclists that she doesn't...
- lonpfrb 14 min 58 sec ago
Huge conflict conflict missed opportunity:...
- roadeo_123 1 hour 22 min ago
Exactly this. But you need to be fiurther. If my wheels are 50 cm from the kerb then 2m from the kerb is 1.5m from my wheels, which cannot be 1.5m...
- chrisonabike 1 hour 27 min ago
It's all about joined-up thinking and holistic health outcomes! If they'd not had that bright idea smokers might have been tempted to smoke closer...
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But then stories get shared a thousand times on social media.
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AFAIK, their (Strava's) algorithm is to rely on other users flagging suspicious rides. What could be a useful feature is to enable users to...
- mjc2669 12 hours 54 min ago
Cable lock looped around frame down tube and bike carrier between roof rack fixing points works.. sometimes a bit of padding to stop any rattling....
- David9694 13 hours 20 min ago
Car crashes into The Wortwell Bell pub near Harleston https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24329586.car-crashes-wortwell-bell-pub-near...
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A statistical amen!
For full boring 'elf and safety we should also count all injuries without bollards and with. The calculus becomes difficult because those without bollards tend to be very salient KSI with video-worthy crashes, but with you can have many more bumps and bangs of lesser note to vulnerable road users with the bollards.
It also needs this since there are place which on balance it might be worse *with* - generally avoid putting them within cycle infra / in the middle of entrances to same is the rule.
Another "externality of motoring" that's required because mass motoring, but is paid for by everybody...
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/7/26/one-billion-bollards
That reminds me of a cycle lane in Bristol along Clarence Rd (https://maps.app.goo.gl/wMYjd5nDDQ5Fvhie7). They orignally had concrete lumps to protect the lane and then decided to remove them due to the number of cars getting stuck on them.
https://road.cc/content/news/169709-bristol-bike-lane-bollards-be-replaced-within-weeks
A similar thing happened in Boston.
Billions of blue blistering bollards!
As Captain Haddock would say.