harmful bollards

and useless ones too, list them here

Usually only harmful when you try to leapfrog over them.

tho not a bollard, i once impaled myself on a fire hydrant. not recommended.

The giant metal pedal bins they've been putting round all the London station entrances. There's a cluster of them at waterloo and they just act as a people colander, creating congestion where there was none before. So y'know would still be a great place to ram a truck of explosives into. /echelon trigger

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_KGX/images/photos/2248-0000005/800/2248-0000093a.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/11/article-0-06073F3C000005DC-451_634x327.jpg

At least once in recent years a Cleveland area cyclist has died after hitting one on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath trail.

I tripped over a bollard in St. Brieuc, France and suffered both public embarrassment and minor contusions. Fie upon it!

In Portland I am aware of no such superfluous obstacles placed well below eye-level to attack the unwary pedestrian. If they exist in Portland outside my awareness, it could only be through some evil intent or egregious lapse of judgment.

Misread as "harmful boffins" and was thinking ray kurzweil's 'the singularity is near' & any other technological singularity-related books you might care about

http://www.thirdwave-websites.com/bike/040914_reenact.JPG

There's some of those giant pedal bins along the south bank thames path, right in the middle of a pedestrianised section with no vehicular access, for no discernible reason.

I have mixed feelings about these big boys, cunningly identical to the original ones on the building itself except for the reinforced steel frame. I suppose if the powers that be feel in need of such protection they're at least preferable to the hated giant bins.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4009/4506097474_90d9c9cd4c.jpg

those are minatory balustrades not harmful bollards

That photo makes no sense.

Harmful to my aesthetic sense. It's true I did have to search for balustrades to find the image.

It is confusing. Streetview Whitehall for a better view.

Suddenly concerned I've turned this thread into a terrorism training manual.

omg amazing thread
I'm pretty sure every single bollard owned by the City of London is completely useless, if not harmful...
I saw one the other day positioned right in the centre of the end of a cycle lane. Like, you'd be making a slight turn off the cycle lane and have a bollard right smack in the middle of your trajectory. HARMFUL BOLLARD.

Perhaps I will dig out some images of correctly used bollards for comparison...

http://www.nndb.com/people/243/000130850/michael-j-pollard-3-sized.jpg

oh crap wait

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/huddersfield-postmaster-angry-new-bollards-4938266

First they came for the delivery drivers, making them walk two yards further for their deliveries, and I did not speak up.

Not to defend bollards or anything.

there are lots of driver vs bollard youtubes out there and i have never watched a single one where the driver has won. bollards are so awesome

http://www.tamworthherald.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276332/Article/images/20232328/5561110-large.jpg

picture from the Tamworth Herald, captioned 'Amington traffic-calming bollard sparks debate'

I crashed into a bollard on my bike once while admonishing some asshole for parking their in the bike lane, even I had to laugh at that

parking their *car*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjC4WhLljFI#t=48

^ just skip to 0:48

Put the explosives in the cabin then.

The ones on the Harrod's escalators are pretty brutal

there is one of these in the middle of the bike path on my way to work, ostensibly to delineate the left and right sides of the path

(xps) piiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssss!!!

always been totally mystified by this bit early on in Henry de Montherlant's otherwise more or less naturalistic Chaos and Night, contemporary to 1959:

They went back up the rue Briquet, Celestino protesting and still holding forth. One might have wondered how it was that there were cars in this street, since the bollards at either end contracted the entrances to prevent them from getting in. Now people could be seen climbing into them, whereupon they rose perpendicularly into the air, like lifts. They came down again by the same means beyond the rue Briquet, and having landed, drove off. It was simple once you had thought of it.

It's so peculiar part of me still wonders whether it's a mistranslation, and I keep meaning to have a look.

There's an earlier bit where he says 'They were in the rue d'Orsel. They turned into the rue Briquet, a narrow passage between the rue d'Orsel and the boulevard Rochechouart. There were bollards at ehter end, put there in an earlier age to prevent carriages from entering; yet there were motor-cars in this so-called street...'

What can it all mean?! Is it an obscure satire of some sort? There's nothing even barely similar in the entire rest of the book!

Harmful literary bollards perplexing my mind.

it sounds like something from Froth on the Daydream

which is anything but naturalistic obv

Original passages with some unfazed commentary here fyi: http://www.montherlant.be/biographie-05-repli2.html

nice find ledge, but des séquences hallucinatoires ou oniriques ou fantastiques does not cover the fact that this bit, as opposed to the rest of book, is pure fantasy - the rest, if i'm remembering right anyway, is a disturbed descent into hell and death, but doesn't actually have anything in the way of flying cars. it's a psychological drama, not Rimbaud.

Ah, Montherlant, unique Montherlant, comme un enfant encore à 68 ans ! lolz.

and yes, it's clearly not a mistranslation (and wouldn't be anyway - it's Terence Kilmartin - isn't there an anecdote where Anthony Burgess's wife goes absolutely berserk at Terence Kilmartin?

anyway, i believe its meant, but it's f'ing peculiar. des bornes dangereuses.

oh, 'berserk' was wrong:

She was pissed again.
'John [ie AB], there's a horrible man in that conservatory being horrible about you. You ought to go out there and bash him.'
'No no, darling, it's only old Terry [Kilmartin], only old Terry. He means no harm at all.'

sorry for the derail. a friend of mine once got very drunk and on his way back home kicked over a lot of temporary plastic bollards, and unknown to him a couple of police officers were nearby, waiting until he'd kicked over every one, before going over to him and telling him to put them all back up. very amusing as he was a grumpy bugger and shouldn't have kicked them all over. harmless bollards.

i once watched a friend cycle past me gleefully giving me the middle finger before her distractedness caused her to crash into a bollard, and for that memory i'll always be thankful to harmful bollards

My cousin-in-law is a quadreplegic because he came off his motorbike and went head first into a roadside bollard.

Today I started a new job developing improvements for Central London's streets and public realm. Watch out harmful and unnecessary bollards, I have a mandate and I'm coming for you.

This thread has been very informative, as there is a band in one of William Gibson's recent novels called the Bollards and because it's not a US term I had no idea what it meant.

http://img.welt.de/img/bildergalerien/crop109485109/3879734816-ci3x2l-w540/Poller-gegen-Kinderwagen-Cafe-in-Prenzlauer-Berg.jpg

A symbolic anti-pushchair bollard in the entrance to a cafe in Berlin (Prenzlauerberg)

pleased to hear that ss.

remember - groin-high bollards in unexpected places is a minimum requirement.

Never Mind the Bollards
Thursday 23 April – – Saturday 11 July 2015
New London Architecture, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT

Throughout the run of the exhibition there will be a mobile library containing related material and seating so that visitors can linger. There will be a free newspaper, The Bollard Observer, plus curator-led tours and tours of nearby spaces of interest.

local eire man (darraghmac) wrote this on thread Being a witness… on board I Love Everything on 16-Dec-2014

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fender bender turned fucking crazy. guy carried on bonnet at speed down Parnell st before driver swerved to crush him into bollards, then took off.

amazed the other guy was alive when I got to him but he was responding by the time the ambulance took him away.

https://create-cdn.net/siteimages/10/3/9/103976/614303.jpg

http://www.barricade-ltd.com/Barricade%20Web%20Images/Polmer%20Range%20Barricade%20small.jpg

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/2015-06-03%2007.31.10_zpsnxxv22e1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELpd43PMvk

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A couple of years ago I was cycling to work past a turn off on the other side of the road protected by a single bollard. I was waiting at a stop line and there was a car and a van coming towards me, both indicating to turn off. The driver of the car saw the bollard and pulled in to the side of the side of the road before the turn, the van pulled around the car and sped straight for the bollard. I braced myself for impact, the van struck the bollard... which collapsed under the van and sprang back up as it passed. It was basically made of hollow (and highly elastic) plastic.

There are ones I've seen where it's not necessary elastic plastic, but the mount point is flexible/spring-loaded

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