02-01-2023, 02:06 PM
(02-01-2023, 01:44 PM)cherrypark Wrote:(02-01-2023, 01:27 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: It's not a law, but engineering practices, and for good reasons. Engineers do actually care about some aspects of safety. They're incompetent about it, but they do care. For example, engineering practices often require a "clear zone" around roads with no obstructions, so that vehicle occupants are less likely to be killed in a vehicle departing the roadway. Of course, that's a highway engineering standard that engineers wrongly apply in (some) cities. Of course, these same engineers also place pedestrians in this clear zone. After all, a pedestrian is no danger to an out of control driver.
So...for the same reason they wouldn't put a bollard on the island. The bollard could injure or kill a driver or other vehicle occupant.
This is why we have flex posts everywhere by the way.
Fair enough - pedestrians are basically just moist flex posts. Shame about the epidemic of bollard-vehicle collision deaths in Europe by the way.
Yeah...about that...that's kinda where our engineers "incompetence" comes into play. They're not really good at designing for safety. Clear zones are probably good practice for highways, but in cities, the only encourage speeding.
And FWIW..."highway" here is "divided highway", here is the equivalent of a two lane intercity highway: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.200424,5...384!8i8192
Significant traffic calming and no clear zone.