xXemokidforeverXxWhat niche subject do you know a lot about?
MouseWithBeerBollards, roads signs and other road signalisation. It is honestly a problem.
what’s your favourite type of bollard and why?
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 make the actual bollard invisible and doesn’t require workers to drag around a bunch of snow poles every winter, they just gotta pull them out.
What’s the reason to not just have the pole permanently attached on top, instead of retracting?
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.