On 14/07/17 14:52,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
>
> Perhaps you ought to rap those new concrete boxes with your knuckles
> to check that they aren't actually hollow plastic Potemkin boxes! The
> yellow ones I described were actually put into use in Sydney but the
> only sign of many of them nowadays is the round ring of the base, with
> the dynabolts still holding it to the island, the actual bollard
> having long since been swept away by "vehicle intrusion"!
>
They were specially designed 'not to damage' cars that hit them. The
same thing is also leading to light poles being set back to the property
line - less for cars to hit.