Took my daily exercise today on a city hire bike (oof, cycling into a bit of a headwind on a very heavy three-speed is not really particularly fun), and part of my route took me along the cycleway along the north side of Leith Links. Those awkward barriers outside the school really aren't very easy to see and contrast against the cycleway on a greyish day, but I see now that at some point since I was last that way someone has installed plastic mesh net "paving" along the detour lines on the grass around the barriers that everyone takes instead. It's a help, I suppose, but couldn't they not just have extended the tarmac around the entrances instead, which would be a more durable solution?
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Infrastructure
BOLLARDS! (Random)
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Bollards have been added to the west London road to create segregation between cyclists and other road users.
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/park-lane-london-new-cycle-lane-a4440446.html
Where’s the bollard mountain?
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Very random
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The track, which as Archer puts it, is “about narrowly escaping death or serious injury by car, celebrating the difference one bell bollard can make”.
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World Bollard Association
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@murun Buchstansangur, that Dublin chicane bollard fandango is in the running for stupidest road furniture of the decade.
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Good to see the bollards on Castle Street in operation. Lots of trade vehicles parked the other side of them. The number of trade vehicles in and about the city centre today was remarkable.
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Oxford 'human bollards' to continue at random times
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what a sad state of affairs - why can't the police enforce it from time to time?
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Definitely a bollard (random)! :-)
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Remember to water it regularly.
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Ho ho!
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That image has disappeared but I guess it was something like this: https://www.alamy.com/decorated-bollard-in-buxton-derbyshire-image337522591.html
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Not noticed these ones before!
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Doubtless the drivists will then complain that the BOLLARDS were too subtle...
When I lived in Durham years ago I loved to see the fancy cars skewered on the (extremely obvious) rising BOLLARD at the marketplace. On student pickup/drop-off days I used to sit in the window of the Market Tavern with a beer to watch the entertainment. The council even kept a few buckets of absorbent in the market hall ready to mop up any spilled motorcar blood.
This BOLLARD was for the Durham CC zone. Also, apparently to prevent "terrorists". Presumably its anti-terror properties ensured it was quite astonishingly resistant to all motor vehicles. CEC should buy some of those
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Nice to see the new Edinburgh Central MSP trying to undermine the city's elected councillors by telling them what they ought to be spending the "tourist tax" on (I think it's called a Transient Visitor Levy in the legislation).
Who paid for the current huge black and yellow "anti-terror" defensive structures? Was it the Scottish government or the UK Home Office? Doesn't seem to have had much to do with the city council as far as I can see. Is it indeed "a fact of life" that these are required? Are they really necessary?
As for the MSP's ideas about hydraulic rising bollards, he seems unaware that some already exist.....on the High Street no less.
I suppose Angus Robertson needs to drum up some free publicity for himself in whatever way he can, but unfortunately this article has simply raised further questions over his own knowledge (or lack thereof) concerning the city he supposedly represents.
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The Royal Mile bollards would be good if they actually used them. I walked up there in the evening a few Saturdays ago and it was really busy with pedestrians, outdoor boozers and shouters in the various al fresco seating areas.
However, in the space of five minutes I had to get out of the road for three cars driving down the High Street. And that's in addition to the two cars (presumably shopkeeps' vehicles) that were already parked on the street.
How often are the anti-terror barriers actually used? Someone must have made the calculation that Edinburgh Festival crowds are potential terror targets, whereas outdoor late summer evening crowds are safe as houses.
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@crowriver - the structures on the High Street are part of the UK Government's National Barrier Asset, which are managed by the National Vehicle Threat Mitigation Unit. Not sure if the Council or Scottish Government pay some sort of rent for them.
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@Morningsider, thanks for that. I had a feeling it was a UKGov initiative.
Apparently "...available for use by both the public and private sectors at relatively little cost." So presume CEC or ScotGov paying something towards these Green Zone style fortifications.
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