Governments extensively use concrete bollards for control of both vehicles and pedestrian traffic, especially in the more crowded areas of cities. People may not be normally aware of their use, so they are always marked with the appropriate signs to give the public the proper information; such as traffic bollards and parking bollards.
Governments extensively use concrete bollards for control of both vehicles and pedestrian traffic, especially in the more crowded areas of cities. People may not be normally aware of their use, so they are always marked with the appropriate signs to give the public the proper information; such as traffic bollards and parking bollards.
Concrete bollards are the main types used to ensure that vehicles follow in line and keep them from overtaking each other; though steel bollards can also be used for this purpose as well. The types of concrete bollards or steel bollards used in this manner are installed on a permanent basis so vehicles cannot just ram them easily out of their way. The concrete bollards, normally colored with bright reflector colors, invariably reflect the lights of vehicles to make sure that people driving through the areas containing them do not fail to see them. Motor Accidents usually happen if these kinds of bollards are used, unpainted and without the necessary bright reflector colors.
Another important use of bollards is for the control of pedestrian traffic.
On busy city streets you will find plastic bollards, concrete bollards and other removable bollards, either permanently installed or temporarily set up; making the areas easily seen where pedestrians can use portions of the road, safe from the motoring traffic. These types of bollards are also in bright attractive colors that will easily catch an individual’s attention. Where the pedestrian traffic varies at various times of the day, law enforcers use plastic bollards, sometimes called removable bollards, placing them at certain hours and removing them afterward when there is no use for them anymore. Traffic enforcers can just put them back in place as necessary.
The use of security bollards and barriers is another purpose served. The perimeter fencing of many compounds, either with concrete or inter-link wires, utilizes concrete bollards not only as strong posts, but also as architectural enhancers. These landscape bollards help to improve the overall appearance of the area being fenced. Owners of areas fenced this way can choose from the many beautiful designs of these decorative bollards for this kind of utilization as they are readily available in the market.
Concrete bollards also serve to hold permanently in place any pipes laid out on the ground for a variety of purposes, as strong pipe bollard sleeves. The water hydrants you see in many places normally sit on top of concrete bollards or cement bollards; serving as pipe bollard sleeves buried underground.
In the piers and wharves concrete bollards serve as mooring posts for boats to keep them tied up and in place while they are docked. On the boats themselves, in the forward, rear, and middle portions, both on the left and right sides, are smaller steel bollards to which ropes are attached for docking purposes.
Concrete bollards, for whatever purpose they are used, are a seemingly unobtrusive but very necessary ground fixture of which people should be consciously aware. Because builders design them purposely to be major items of the landscape, they certainly make the scenery look architecturally beautiful and attractive, while serving a most needed function.
