The most stupid road "safety" feature you have eve

[Val]

The most stupid road "safety" feature you have ever seen.

Give me your best shot here.

Here I proudly present you:

https://www.highwaysindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Child-Bollard-2.png


A school in Lincolnshire is to get new bollards in the shape of schoolchildren – to fool drivers into thinking they are the real thing and make them slow down.

It may work. Drivers may start ignoring real children


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[Ben90]

https://preview.cutcaster.com/cutcaster-photo-100240408-British-20-miles-an-hour-limit-zone-sign.jpg

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[NJD]

On a similar note, lollypop men / women.

Because having one step out on me in a 30mph A road is totally safe, at what point is walking in front of traffic on a busy road approrite or safe, anyone else would wait until there's a gap in the traffic, if kids are to young or unsafe to cross the road on their own they shouldn't be on their own

Seems like a job not needed in today's day and age IMO.

[Dave70]

I have searched and searched again for the picture of this one but, all photographic evidence appears to have been wiped from the interwebs.

However, I did find the original story, which did have a picture of it but, even that one has been removed.

Basically, they erected a new road sign about 2 foot into the actual road on the B19 in the IoM.

Probably as stupid as you can get

https://m.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/new-road-sign-creates-hazard-in-maughold-1-1792036
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[thx1138]

In N.Z I have seen roadsigns such as "eyes on the road, don't be distracted" and "look where you want the bike to go" seen these on bends too

[RhynoCZ]

And when the Court asks you, why did you ran over 3 children, you will say, that you thought those were made out of wood.
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[monkeybiker]

I thought the wooden children were more to make you aware that children may be crossing, not to trick you that they are real?

[grr666]

Have to agree with Ben90, the money they must have spent putting 20mph signs and roadmarkings throughout Bristol
must run into the millions, just for everybody to completely fucking ignore them. There never seems to
be anybody enforcing the limits anyway. If there was, they would find that a disproportionate percentage of offenders
are late for school mums hammering their Vauxhall mobile womb dumps along on roads where the limits have been imposed
to protect their little miracles. You couldn't make it up.
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[chris-red]

These gimpy things.
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How creepy will they be at night.....

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[Andy_Pagin]

I look at those bollards and get an urge to charge them on horseback armed with a sabre.
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[grr666]

Blimey, I remember the help spastic collection boxes. That's going back a bit.
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[Dave70]

Someone should chain their bike to one.
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[Irn-Bru]

20 zones are perfectly reasonable during school times, say 7 - 10am then 2 - 4pm or whatever times it's open till. But I really don't see the point of them wanting people to do 20 at say 10pm, or during the school holidays. I like the American system where you do the lower speed limit while a flight flashes or whatever.
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[Commuter_Tim]

[RhynoCZ]

The language barrier is very thick here.

Let's say you were going through the same street 100 times. Now, you know those wooden kids are there just to make you cautious, so you just start to not give a feck about them and just drive 30+mph or what's the limit + your I don't give a feck about the limit.

Although you could do this 99 times and nothing happened, the 100th time a child of the same height would stand there and the moment you get close, it makes a step into the road. You going 30+, accustomed to that kind of speed, you've been on that road 99 times before, and not being able to react quickly enough.
And the rest is pretty obvious, doing 35-40 in 20mph zone, killing a child, being sent to prison, where you're gonna have to take care not to drop the soap.
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[Andy_Pagin]

Perhaps if we painted crash helmets and hi-viz vests on them cagers might start noticing us.
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[Codge]

reminds me of table footie figures - it is a novel approach, i think i would find it distracting though. here in oxford they have introduced 20 mile limit zones, if there is a real concern about child injury then wouldn't that be the way forward?
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