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[julian987R]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/05/ba...

Bemusement at ‘barmy’ bunch of 60 bollards near Birmingham school

[rodericb]

I would suppose that there's no out-and-out requirement to have them nicely aligned but still.....

[Gareth79]

A fence or bollards along the roadside wouldn't have worked because there's many driveways along there, and I assume the highways engineers know what doesn't work. However that and regular ticketing might have been a better option...

[StescoG66]

rodericb said:

I would suppose that there's no out-and-out requirement to have them nicely aligned but still.....

That pic makes my teeth itch. The irregular spacing and alignment.....

[Rufus Stone]

Is there an abortion clinic nearby?

[rodericb]

The folk at Rushford Falls or whatever it is called might relocate to here to catch phone zombies and people riding bicycles with no hands taking a tumble.

[Quhet]

All because some entitled tts will not be told not to park. Selfish s

[RogerDodgerSuperTodger]

Rufus Stone said:

Is there an abortion clinic nearby?

I can’t see any notices to keep the crazies away, so presume not.

[Gweeds]

Remove any cars illegally parked and charge lot to collect. Those bollards are dreadful and hardly ideal for those using the pavement

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Would have thought hiring a Traffic Warden to stand out there at drop off and pick up times would very quickly pay for itself.

[RogerDodgerSuperTodger]

They could have put the same number of dropping/raising bollards in place instead and made a commission from Takeshi’s Castle.

[menousername]

Strange thing is its to prevent parking due to the nearby school, but the pavement looks wide enough to incorporate a row of parking, a footpath and a cycle lane. Withiut impacting the lane of traffic

Surely that would have been better

[Sheets Tabuer]

You can bet your arse the second and third line were added because of knobs going around and driving up the pavement.

[Randy Winkman]

Whatever the rights and wrongs of having them - are any of them actually in a straight line?

[Gweeds]

menousername said:

Strange thing is its to prevent parking due to the nearby school, but the pavement looks wide enough to incorporate a row of parking, a footpath and a cycle lane. Withiut impacting the lane of traffic

Surely that would have been better

Except the idiots would just also park across the footpath and cycle lane.

[Tankrizzo]

Sheets Tabuer said:

You can bet your arse the second and third line were added because of knobs going around and driving up the pavement.

100% this, "that's my personal parking spot to drop little Jaiden and Jordan off"

[Glassman]

Sheets Tabuer said:

You can bet your arse the second and third line were added because of knobs going around and driving up the pavement.

^ this

Randy Winkman said:

Whatever the rights and wrongs of having them - are any of them actually in a straight line?

^ and this

It's endemic.

Witnessed unbelievable levels of fkery when my kids were at primary school. Eldest npw plays football and training is at a school. Specific instructions about drop off/parking/pickup etc. Not a single fk given by anyone.

[PurpleTurtle]

Much as Birmingham City Council are prone to random acts of lunacy, I'm with them on this.

The road in question is the A38 Bristol Road - the main arterial dual carriageway into the second city. It is *always* busy with traffic, and to have parents mounting the pavement here is an accident waiting to happen.

The specific location is also immediately adjacent to zig zag lines that are there to protect a pedestrian crossing immediately outside the school. This photo on Google Maps is pre the mass bollard proliferation, shows the wide pavements that would be undoubtedly full of cars at drop off and pick up.

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.404126,-1.9798403,...

ETA: the school is on the corner of the appropriately named 'School Close' which has about five non-double yellow parking spaces in it. I expect it is absolute car-nage (pun intended) round here at drop off and pickup but people need to get used to not having parking immediately outside schools.

Edited by PurpleTurtle on Friday 6th January 10:22

[Tankrizzo]

PurpleTurtle said:

Much as Birmingham City Council are prone to random acts of lunacy, I'm with them on this.

The road in question is the A38 Bristol Road - the main arterial dual carriageway into the second city. It is *always* busy with traffic, and to have parents mounting the pavement here is an accident waiting to happen.

The specific location is also immediately adjacent to zig zag lines that are there to protect a pedestrian crossing immediately outside the school. This photo on Google Maps is pre the mass bollard proliferation, shows the wide pavements that would be undoubtedly full of cars at drop of and pick up.

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.404126,-1.9798403,...

Flicking between the Google Maps times, also looks like the residents themselves used it as overflow parking.

[Glassman]

Randy Winkman said:

Whatever the rights and wrongs of having them - are any of them actually in a straight line?

Reminds me of when, shortly after moving in, we had our pavement lowered because the council insisted that the crossover needed to be reinforced to take the weight of a car (we were going to do it anyway but neighbors). At the time, it cost just shy of £1.6k and took six months for the contractors to come out. We continued to use the drive given the garage at the end of it was pre-existing!

When the subcontractors got here they were an Albanian mob. Immediately offered another metre of width for £400, "cash, boss". I declined. They finished; the relaid slabs no longer match the pattern in which they were originally laid. Matey didn't want to know and neither did the council.

Within six months of using the 'reinforced' crossover, most of the (new) slabs have cracked. Council still didn't want to know unless they were a trip hazard.

Great Britain.