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Geraint Jones
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David (remove SEND and NO and SPAM to reply by e-mail) Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
| Unfortunately there is a fashion amongst road builders for things
| which are as weak as possible.
When they closed off one end of Keble Road in Oxford to motor traffic
they put a plastic bollard in the middle of the cyclists' fistula. It
was one of those not-quite-flat rectangular cross-section things made
of black high density PE, with reflectors at the top. Within days it
was bent at an angle of about thirty degrees out towards the Banbury
Road and presented a considerable danger to navigation. Shortly
afterwards it was flattened onto the floor. It took a month or so for
it to be replaced.
Within days that one was bent, and then broken, and then replaced.
I think it was the second one that was in place when I happened to be
leaving the lab just after midnight and saw the electric milk float
doing what it obviously did pretty much every night. Milk floats are,
apparently, twice the width of a bicycle lane.
It took about three plastic bollards before they installed a cast iron
cylindrical one. We didn't get any milk the day after that.
| Unfortunately there is a fashion amongst road builders for things
| which are as weak as possible.
When they closed off one end of Keble Road in Oxford to motor traffic
they put a plastic bollard in the middle of the cyclists' fistula. It
was one of those not-quite-flat rectangular cross-section things made
of black high density PE, with reflectors at the top. Within days it
was bent at an angle of about thirty degrees out towards the Banbury
Road and presented a considerable danger to navigation. Shortly
afterwards it was flattened onto the floor. It took a month or so for
it to be replaced.
Within days that one was bent, and then broken, and then replaced.
I think it was the second one that was in place when I happened to be
leaving the lab just after midnight and saw the electric milk float
doing what it obviously did pretty much every night. Milk floats are,
apparently, twice the width of a bicycle lane.
It took about three plastic bollards before they installed a cast iron
cylindrical one. We didn't get any milk the day after that.