Bollard The Pavements

[murraymints]

given the recent trend of using vehicles as a weapon I cannot understand why the pavements in main thoroughfares are not bollarded at regular intervals of approx 30m or so..places like Princes St, Sauchiehall St , oxford Street, Regent Street..all the main city shopping walkways...would not be a huge task and would stop vehicles careering out of control

[ummmm]

They probably will eventually but I suppose there are practicalities they have to take into consideration.

[Islay]

I would imagine cost would be a huge factor also the size of the bollards, if it is the normal ones on somewhere like Oxford street - get a lorry hurtling down there those bollards are not going to make that much difference.

[jno]

it's not really a trend, is it, once here and once in Stockholm - it it happens more often they may well try it, but the bollards in our street get knocked over occasionally, so they're no guarantee.

[ummmm]

Hasn't it happened more than that?

[Ellipsis]

Nice (July 14 2016) - 86 dead
Berlin (December 19 2016) - 12 dead
London (March 22 2017) - 5 dead
Stockholm (April 7 2017) - 4 dead

[jno]

I'd forgotten about Nice. Still, four times in a year isn't necessarily enough to get the entire continent's cities bollarded. If it could be done simply, and if it worked, fine; but I'm not sure either is the case.

[EcclesCake]

The number of deaths are not sufficient to justify the cost of countermeasures.

Sad for the families and friends but true.

[ivor4781]

maybe the fact emergency services must have access too,

[emmie]

London already has too much street furniture,
more bollards on Oxford St, wonder what the shops would say, whether they would be in agreement.
remember the recent terrorist was driving at 70mph
enough to crash through some bollards perhaps.

[Jackdaw33]

The vehicles involved in the incidents listed were not out of control, they were driven deliberately into crowds.

[Berniecuddles2]

cant see the point of more bollards the terrorists will just find another way

[EDDIE51]

Bollards would be useless , a determined driver as in the recent cases, would just drive between them. It would need a full barrier like the ones on the center of a motorway to prevent cars mounting the pavement. That is obviously impractical.