Traffic Cones

[woodelf]

What do they call traffic cones in America?...same as here or what? Ta Muchly.

[didoatwork]

Up north we called them bollards!

[woodelf]

So did I dido...but in USA?...Many Thanks though.

[bookbinder]

It looks as if they call them traffic cones over there, also. In Seattle, at any rate:
http://www.seattlepi....a-caution-1274877.php

[Mamyalynne]

Or Highway Cones.

Hi Woodelf xxx (smile)

[vulcan]

Looks like they have the same name
http://www.americanba...com/trafficcones.html

[andycappy]

highway cones or bollards,

[didoatwork]

Bollards!

[craft1948]

In Yorkshire bollards are permanent structures, not removeable cones.

[Old_Geezer]

Wizard hats.

[woodelf]

I could do a bit of rhyming slang for OG's answer, but I daren't or I'd be collared - there's your rhyme to bollard though Doc...Many Thanks All and Hi to you too Mamya!

[mungbeanz]

I think they call them pylons

[DTCwordfan]

collards - Doc - green veg......bit like the colour of Pollards Bollards when they are strangled with heavy-duty elastic bands by his wife, Val.

[weecalf]

They wanted to call them traffic cones but they just could not be bollard

[woodelf]

Excellent DT and good one weecalf!

[4getmenot]

bollards are big concrete posts

[boxtops]

Same here, prudie - a bollard is a fixed item of street furniture, not a cone you can put on your head (if you are so minded) :-)

[Prudie]

Huh boxy? LOL, well as you've invited me in bollards are fixed cement, traffic cones (witches hats) used to be (in my day) the ultimate trophy of a student bedroom