I’ve never wanted just one of those to be a concrete bollard so badly…
Make it the same height and color, and just place it somewhere randomly within all the plastic ones 😈
Honestly too stupid to be alive
Did they earn their driver’s license from a lottery?
In his defense, he could not see them. /s
It’s funny, by me pickup drivers are usually the most considerate ones to cyclists. Cars with florida plates are usually the worst. I think the reason is that most of the pickups are DOT registered because people use them for work.
I’m pretty sure I’m almost killed by a pickup weekly; definitely haven’t gone over a month without it for quite a while
Wow, crazy. I commute 21 miles (one way) to work in the rural north east on my e-bike. I get buzzed like once a week maybe.
pickup drivers are usually the most considerate ones
Not in Texas
Maybe California does it differently, but given the number of Hitler Particles in that state, I kinda doubt it
I’m in the rural north east.
I thought of this when I saw it.
How I wish just one of those had concrete in it.
Ya I watched right to the end of the video hoping one of those was going to be the money shot.
Omg this would be such a good method to save money, just make some of them concrete and you never know which one
needs a random pattern of concrete + glitter bomb
I love that idea, will not “damage” a vehicle but still very annoying for pricks like him doing it intentionally.
They should have paintballs in them so the car can be identified. And if that dye ruins the paint even better
They should lose their car and license, and be made to repair all the damage they did. Maybe some community service, too.
My guess is those pop back up when knocked over. Hard to see in the video if they are standing back up after he hits them but i think they do. I agree he should loose his license and be charged with reckless driving.
You can see them pop up in some parts of the video. Regardless though, there’s no way they aren’t damaged by this. There’s only so much wear something can take.
Having seen people drive over these, they are designed to flop around for this very reason, but usually don’t stand up to anything faster than walking speed unless they’re brand new.
So I’m sure quite a few didn’t pop back up.
Either way, I’d make them pay for the entire row and use the money to make a more permanent barrier (that’ll never happen in the US)
Make them pay to replace them with concrete bollards
It’s a shame there’s not the occasional solid steel bar mixed in with them.
Thought about it, and it makes a missle out of a bollard etc that would risk bystanders.
That driver is already a severe risk to literally everyone and everything around it.
They’re designed to be knockable and pop back up to accommodate street sweepers and energy* vehicles, but not assholes going full speed
Edit: was sposed to say emergency vehicles
Energy vehicles?
Guessing an autocorrected emergency vehicles.
uhh rubber does bend normally, yes, but not if you hit it at that speed. the rubber has no time to respond properly, and instead of bending, it tears apart, i think. so no, i don’t think these will stand up again.
Rebuild every single one of those by hand, with concrete and rebar. Lose license permanently . Have to speak every year at high schools about anger management, inadequacy and insecurity, for life.
23rd Street, Santa Monica. August 9, 2026, a driver in a green truck runs over bollards in the protected bike lane. On August 19, Councilmember Dan Hall reports that the Santa Monica Police Department “has identified the vehicle and owner. They have had the vehicle towed for expired registration and are following up with the owner on the vandalism of public property.” @electdanhal Santa Monica has built 119 of the 187 miles of bikeway in its Bike Action Plan. Roughly five of those miles are protected. The half-mile on 23rd Street is protected by plastic barriers called “armadillos” while other areas, such as 17th Street are protected by concrete curbs.
I was getting unregistered jalopy vibes from the condition of the truck (dirty, preexisting body damage). Often also means uninsured, and an owner who doesn’t have anything to pay for the damage they cause. The good news is that this driver may not ever get his truck out of impound (in addition to towing + storage fees they’ll need to pay to get registration current, they probably wouldn’t have let it lapse in the first place if they could afford to do that), so he may be off the road for a while. The bad news is that he’ll probably never make the city whole for the damage caused here, though maybe they’ll recoup something by auctioning the truck.
Lol, 119 miles just a colored line, 5 miles this useless stuff? So none are actually protected
May be wrong
You got all of that wrong somehow, while extracting numbers from that one paragraph.
- 119 miles in total.
- 5 of them protected, so 114 colored lines.
- Of the protected ones this half-mile with these plastic bollards, 17th street with concrete curbs. Share of bollards to curbs not explicitly disclosed.
I live near enough to know the layout and while it’s mostly just colored line, the streets are still usually bike friendly, assuming you don’t see this nonsense.
What SM did was actually reduce parking to the point that it forced biking or bussing (and made permits for remaining spots, lol). Driving remains is almost all single lane torture with a 25 mph limit, single because when I was a kid it was two lanes and they decided they wanted a dedicated bike lane (specifically thinking Broadway but probably others).
SM is a small place, too. A ton of those miles are in residential areas with little room for expansion.
Sounds great. Make them actually protected and you have a neighborhood where people want to live and cars are unwelcome.
Very much deliberate action, probably votes Republican.
High probability.
Absolute certainty
No probably about it.
Needs concrete bollards.
Just one at random
needs 5 foot wall, 3 foot thick heavily reinforced concrete walls
That person should not be allowed to drive anything motorized ever.
I wouldn’t want to be bicycling around that motherfucker, either.
Well that is fine because he will be too lazy and scared to leave his house without a giant truck
Of course it’s a pickup truck. Classic fragile ego in his emotional support vehicle.
Gender affirming vehicle
That’s why where I live (europe) those bad boys are full steel planted on the ground and not some wobbly noodles.
Sadly not everywhere yet. From cycling in southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland a good bit this summer I see too many places where there is no bollard at all, just a line drawn on the ground that many ignore. Switzerland in particular was not fun to cycle in
I think they’re this way in some places to allow emergency services to use them as a dedicated lane (cyclists should move to sidewalks and stop when hearing sirens)
You just gave me a boner… uh I want those soo bad too! But the only reason why I think it’s like that here in US cities bc potential need for emergency vehicles cases.
Better protected bike lanes = more cycling trips = fewer car trips = fewer cars in the way of emergency vehicles = no need for emergency vehicles to shift into the bike lane mid-block
We also have emergency vehicle and we do just fine, it’s all propaganda
I would love to see one of them randomly replaced with a rigid bollard, but painted white to match
Even if it was painted bright orange they probably wouldn’t notice or react before hitting it at full speed.
And sue the city for damaging their car.
One of the embassy guarding ones.
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