At East 24th Street in Manhattan, not far from Gramercy Park, the traffic on Third Avenue switches from being two-way to the south to one-way-uptown to the north. In order to prevent motorists from becoming confused at this and to keep them in their appropriate lane, the DOT has put up a row of plastic bollards that bend at the base. Despite their flexibility, about half of them have been run down and obliterated by careless drivers. Wow. Please, people: You gotta stay focused on the road.
In other news, here’s a guy who gives SUV drivers everywhere a bad name, as if they didn’t have one already.
- Whoops! [S&F]
- SUV drags cop thru Times Sq.; Pedestrians flee in panic; 6 are injured [Daily News]
There’s a similar row of plastic bollards on 14th St, for cars turning left to go up 1st Avenue. They too, are frequently run down. The thing is, there’s no direction change here, just a simple left turn from 1 lane.
-mike i
Driving can be hard. Mike, have you noticed whether the bollards have calmed traffic down at all?
I don’t know.. they’ve been up (and down) for maybe 3 years, and back when they were originally installed I wasn’t nearly as observant of these things as I am now.
-mike