I’ve never wanted just one of those to be a concrete bollard so badly…
Make it the same height and color, and just place it somewhere randomly within all the plastic ones 😈
Did they earn their driver’s license from a lottery?
That’s why where I live (europe) those bad boys are full steel planted on the ground and not some wobbly noodles.
I think they’re this way in some places to allow emergency services to use them as a dedicated lane (cyclists should move to sidewalks and stop when hearing sirens)
Sadly not everywhere yet. From cycling in southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland a good bit this summer I see too many places where there is no bollard at all, just a line drawn on the ground that many ignore. Switzerland in particular was not fun to cycle in
I would love to see one of them randomly replaced with a rigid bollard, but painted white to match
One of the embassy guarding ones.
Even if it was painted bright orange they probably wouldn’t notice or react before hitting it at full speed.
And sue the city for damaging their car.
You just gave me a boner… uh I want those soo bad too! But the only reason why I think it’s like that here in US cities bc potential need for emergency vehicles cases.
Better protected bike lanes = more cycling trips = fewer car trips = fewer cars in the way of emergency vehicles = no need for emergency vehicles to shift into the bike lane mid-block
We also have emergency vehicle and we do just fine, it’s all propaganda
That person should not be allowed to drive anything motorized ever.
I wouldn’t want to be bicycling around that motherfucker, either.
Well that is fine because he will be too lazy and scared to leave his house without a giant truck
Imagine how miserable the life of this individual must be for him to do this. Smh
Right? What a sad and pathetic loser…
Honestly too stupid to be alive
and this is why I couldnt give a single fucking shit about any law that says bikes cant be on sidewalks/must be on roads or whatever.
because every fucking car is a hostile, imminent threat to a person on a bike.
And even the sidewalk isnt that safe, I’ve personally been on a sidewalk that had 4 feet of grass between me and the road and STILL have had assholes swerve through the verge to try and scare me/knock me down/make me crash/whatever their sociopathic intent.
edit: and yes, it was by an asshole in a truck. Its almost always an asshole in a truck.
They need tire punching dividers. It could be bollards that would be fine if a person hits them but would crack under the weight of a car to reveal a nice nail spike.
No, just put a goddamn wall in. large enough so a vehicle cant roll over it, thick enough so a vehicle cant crash through it, and heavy enough so an impact cant push it.
Last thing i wanna do is deal with an asshole who suddenly had their tires blow up and lose all control
In many european countries. The bollards are either steel og concrete. Works like a charm.
In his defense, he could not see them. /s
Those bollards need to be solid.
Just one of them
The goal should be to protect vulnerable road users. Solid metal or concrete blocks would be better because they would actively prevent cars from entering the bicycle lane.
The goal should be safety. A single solid pole in a line of breakaway poles is spiteful.
I’m 100% on board with being spiteful to carholes. My only note on the suggestion is that hitting the concrete one and disabling your car should be considered sufficient evidence on its own to convict the driver of attempted murder.
A car entering a bike lane by accident is just as deadly as one that enters out of malice. Which is why the bollards should be solid, and visibly so. The dividers should prevent cars from entering.
These bollards are designed to collapse as they did. They are designed to be visible markers, rather than physical barriers. These are bad by design. Lawmakers are more concerned with avoiding airbag deployments than safety.
A single breakaway post that doesn’t break away is not the solution. Though I would never snitch on someone secretly who filled one with concrete overnight.
The collapsible bollards are often to allow emergency services to take the lane as cyclists should be evacuating such lanes upon hearing sirens until it becomes clear their lane isn’t needed
Chaotic good.
I think they need to be flexible for fire trucks and ambulances. A bike lane can turn into an E lane if designed properly.
I was thinking they should be connected with a steel cable at the bottom, and a hook inside the plastic shell, so if a car hits them, they grab on and start slowing the car down.
No. Each post should be solid enough to stop, or significantly slow a car on its own. They need to be built to protect vulnerable road users from cars. Slowing the cars gradually does not do that.
Cables under tension can snap back which makes your idea even more dangerous than just a concrete block.
That’s how they are in Europe. Slam into one of those and you basically have to get a new car.
You need to promote it as “anti-terrorist hardening to protect cars from terrorist ramming attacks”. It’s more likely to get support.
If that’s what it takes.
Eh, there are genuine situations where you don’t want to stop the vehicle immediately, like say if this trucker came up on the other side and pushed the filming car into the bike line. Having a controlled line that brings the vehicle to a stop is much safer than having concrete and steel barriers that just shred the car and the occupants. Similar cable systems are already installed to stop cars, so the engineering has been done to prevent those dangerous snap-backs.
Those systems are designed to dissipate the forces by crumpling and creating debris that is thrown away from the middle of the road. The crash panels at the start of cable systems and guardrails are designed to launch debris in a colission. Incredibly dangerous for cyclists or pedestrians, which is why they are installed at road edges. They are completely unsuitable to be barriers between different types of traffic.
Highway medians are almost always concrete walls. There is a reason those cable systems are not used between lanes of traffic.
Highway medians are almost always concrete walls
Funny you mention this, because most highway medians are a W profile ditch, or a cable catch system (which is similar to what I described).
I’m referring to urban highways where opposing lanes are right next to each other, like the sort of spacing that you would need for a barrier next to a bicycle lane. Those cable systems are only installed in cases where there is generous clearance for debris, which is not applicable for the roadside bicycle lanes we are discussing.
Admittedly it would be much safer for those in the bike lane if we dug a W profile ditch in pace of the car lanes. For some reason I don’t see that happening.
Those cable systems already exist, just not in the US.
Yet far more situations where you’d want to stop the car immediately. What’s worse in your scenario, a few people in the car potentially getting injured or killed, or multiple pedestrians and cyclists getting mangled by 2 cars?
Which scenario is more likely? A car having a lane departure event, or a car having a lane departure event at the exact moment the area next to them is packed with cyclists and pedestrians?
Seeing how this truck managed to go for a mile or so in the bike lane without hitting anyone, I’d definitely err on the side of a car going into the bike lane being more probable than a car going into the bike line right next to a whole bunch of cyclists.
If bikers felt better protected, maybe more would bike. In my country something like this would become mass murder. It doesn’t though.
Every road is different, and the protections for the people on the roads should be based on how those roads are being used. This road has a bike lane, and it should make sufficient protections for the cyclcist AND the drivers. If the road had way more cyclists, or cycling was becoming more prevalent, it would make sense to put in better infrastructure to protect that use in those areas. You’ll note that not every railroad crossing has a dedicated bridge going over it, or armature, or lights, or even a signal. Those protections are put up based on how frequently the crossing is used and weighed against the damage of an accident there. Simply put, that road doesn’t have the cycling demand to build dedicated infrastructure, but there is definitely enough demand to make sure that a truck can’t just brodoze down the lane.
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Why do pickup drivers hate cyclists? I saw another video of a pickup terrorizing a cyclist recently.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1u7Szmrgwg4
It’s a short with annoying voice over dude
One of these days I want a cyclist to pull a gun on someone pulling this shit. I know pickup drivers are often armed and typically feel safe in their giant trucks. But you drive through the protected cycle lane you should be at risk of being shot by someone fearing that you may continue attempting to attack them.
At least in gunland
Pickup drivers are just assholes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA
The “light” truck is intentionally marketed to people with that personality type. (I wish I was kidding - I’m not.)
If you were paying 2k a month on a luxury truck loan to pay 6 bucks for a gallon of gas to go 11 miles at traffic speeds slower than a bike on the shoulder, you too would be incredibly stupid and irate.
Also, that truck driver needs to have their license pulled indefinitely and the truck impounded. That’s multiple murder attempts happening in a few minutes. I don’t give a fuck if public transport sucks, or if you are crippled and can’t walk anywhere. Should have thought of that before you tried to kill someone multiple times with your truck.
Rural cosplay is a thing… https://youtu.be/6q_BE5KPp18
Also nonsense at the end (“serving a 37 year sentence”).
Very much deliberate action, probably votes Republican.
No probably about it.
High probability.
Absolute certainty
How I wish just one of those had concrete in it.
They should have paintballs in them so the car can be identified. And if that dye ruins the paint even better
Omg this would be such a good method to save money, just make some of them concrete and you never know which one
Ya I watched right to the end of the video hoping one of those was going to be the money shot.
needs a random pattern of concrete + glitter bomb
I love that idea, will not “damage” a vehicle but still very annoying for pricks like him doing it intentionally.
Needs concrete bollards.
Just one at random
needs 5 foot wall, 3 foot thick heavily reinforced concrete walls
23rd Street, Santa Monica. August 9, 2026, a driver in a green truck runs over bollards in the protected bike lane. On August 19, Councilmember Dan Hall reports that the Santa Monica Police Department “has identified the vehicle and owner. They have had the vehicle towed for expired registration and are following up with the owner on the vandalism of public property.” @electdanhal Santa Monica has built 119 of the 187 miles of bikeway in its Bike Action Plan. Roughly five of those miles are protected. The half-mile on 23rd Street is protected by plastic barriers called “armadillos” while other areas, such as 17th Street are protected by concrete curbs.
I was getting unregistered jalopy vibes from the condition of the truck (dirty, preexisting body damage). Often also means uninsured, and an owner who doesn’t have anything to pay for the damage they cause. The good news is that this driver may not ever get his truck out of impound (in addition to towing + storage fees they’ll need to pay to get registration current, they probably wouldn’t have let it lapse in the first place if they could afford to do that), so he may be off the road for a while. The bad news is that he’ll probably never make the city whole for the damage caused here, though maybe they’ll recoup something by auctioning the truck.
Lol, 119 miles just a colored line, 5 miles this useless stuff? So none are actually protected
May be wrong
You got all of that wrong somehow, while extracting numbers from that one paragraph.
- 119 miles in total.
- 5 of them protected, so 114 colored lines.
- Of the protected ones this half-mile with these plastic bollards, 17th street with concrete curbs. Share of bollards to curbs not explicitly disclosed.
I live near enough to know the layout and while it’s mostly just colored line, the streets are still usually bike friendly, assuming you don’t see this nonsense.
What SM did was actually reduce parking to the point that it forced biking or bussing (and made permits for remaining spots, lol). Driving remains is almost all single lane torture with a 25 mph limit, single because when I was a kid it was two lanes and they decided they wanted a dedicated bike lane (specifically thinking Broadway but probably others).
SM is a small place, too. A ton of those miles are in residential areas with little room for expansion.
Sounds great. Make them actually protected and you have a neighborhood where people want to live and cars are unwelcome.
