is a problem all over the world,
normally a row of bollards along the road and at both ends of said pavement, spaced at say half the width of the narrowest car puts a stop to it, so what was the thought behind putting hundreds more bollards in the pavement where cars could not possibly travel?
in Shonan near Enoshima, Japan, on a side-street which runs along
Japan’s Route 134, hundreds of bollards occupy the street like black ghosts
poking their heads out of the ground, 350 of them in fact,
the
street is situated right by Shonan Kaigan Park and is just steps from the sea
(here is the location on google maps), as a popular destination, the street was once plagued with illegally parked
cars, not any more, enter the city planners! the whole thing looks so surreal,
“Their shape and numbers initially surprised me,” said one local resident, “but now it’s just become part of the landscape.” and here is the really scary thing, at night, the reflective “eyes” on each bollard light up as cars pass by, imagine if you are not aware of that fact, and on a slightly inebriated walk home a car illuminates the bollards as you are walking through them! all photographs by Kazuya Kamogawa / Sankei
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2 comments:
That seems a little extreme and looks sort of like military protection. They could have used planters with flowers... or imagine how nice 350 trees would have looked. Oh well. They certainly made their point.
Dear Jil, cherry trees would have been such a great idea, imagine in a few years time how beautiful the avenue of trees would have looked, and it would still work to stop cars parking! best regards, Stan and Diana.
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