In Ireland we have begun to use these bollards designed to look like pencils to protect footpaths outside of schools
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In Ireland we have begun to use these bollards designed to look like pencils to protect footpaths outside of schools
https://i.redd.it/tulkt4wdfpzg1.jpeg
Posted by AnnualWindow7009
28 Comments
St Lukes Cork
They’ve been here a few years already.
They look great, I cant wait for teenagers in full tracksuits on e-scooters to set them on fire for no reason
They are kinda cool tbf
I like em.
If you’re in a crash you can pull one of those out of the ground and use the rubber on your car. Brand new.
Never understood why not plastic rubber etc, some laugh if little Johnny runs out and into a metal pole
Can’t knock the design off them though
Begun? These are out years my dude
I hate these. They look sooooo shite.
Love them. Cheerful and practical.
They’re c.€200-400 each under the Safe Routes to School program. Fairly hefty. Suppliers are having a nice pay day.
And yet, drivers fail to take the hint and park on the footpath as close as possible to the start and end of the line of pencils.
Have we? Never seen those around but that looks class.
I’d like to see at least one of them with chew marks on the end
They should make a cigarette version 😄
They’re awful. People just knock them over
Now is it a 2B or not 2B pencil? That is the question
I wonder who sharpens them before jamming them into the ground
Yes theu are outside my local school
Yet SDCC refuse to put them outside my kids school or sort the speeding outside the school.
Bunch of cunts
Pointy side up in Australia
Here’s a Street-View of them being installed outside a school in 2001.
[St Fergals / Dublin](https://maps.app.goo.gl/zKD1Na54cT8idZzh7)
Edit : They just put them along the edge of the footpath, not in front of the main entrance / exit though.
They are brilliant, I subconsciously start to drive more cautiously the minute I see them… *Redditor response to this: “Would you not be driving more cautiously around a school anyway???”… Sometimes it’s not obvious in a built up area its a school ya prick!!………. Sorry I’m having one of those days..
It’s all fun and games until Dom Joly rocks up with his massive jotter and tries to erase something on the way into school.
I really like how the concrete footpath fits in beautifully with the red sandstone walls around it. Really shows the craftsmanship we have nowadays.
That shadow footpath will be green by next November with no follow up maintenance as usual from the council.
What’s a pencil?
Fair ramp off that, would the school kids not have preffered some skateboard grind rails or even a slide………….. Actually could north cork streets be used for a red-bull downhill challenge thing. Is there a route of corks steepest streets or climb that could be cycling route
You really stretched the definition of “mildly interesting” there.