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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what's your favourite type of bollard and why?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am a big fan of the Slovenian/Austrian combo snow pole+bollard. I think they are such a clever thing for places where it snows enough to cover the actual bollard and doesn't require workers to drag around a bunch of snow poles every winter, they just gotta pull them out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the reason to not just have the pole permanently attached on top, instead of retracting?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly I can't give you a proper answer here. I never actually thought about it before so I just looked up the Slovenian law about it (I don't speak German so I didn't bother with the Austrian one) and I couldn't find anything that specifically says that the snow poles must/can't be there between XY dates (just a bunch of stuff about how they gotta be positioned). If I had to guess it is a mix of these things:

  • Aesthetics
  • Visibility
  • Giving the road workers something to do
  • It is how it has always been done. Before these combo bollards became a thing and in places they still haven't replaced the old ones they still add/remove a full on wooden snow pole next to the bollards every year.

There might be some other reasoning for it too, but this is what comes to mind as possible options.