Granite and concrete blocks are installed as part of Operational Projects as hardening in order to provide safety for pedestrians. Many granite blocks have been repurposed from bridge rehabilitation projects across the City. These blocks are a sustainable solution that integrates seamlessly into New York City’s urban environment. NYC DOT also purchases new blocks when needed.
These blocks are a sustainable solution that integrates seamlessly into New York City’s urban environment.
Uhh that doesn’t look seamless to me. But far from me to complain, bollards are great.
They’re all over the city and provide free public seating. I’m not complaining. Seems like a good way to reuse old materials
I love sizable rocks
Good of them to provide ammunition for the upcoming block-by-block urban trebuchet battles.
A few years ago they put some rocks in low visibility corners in my neighbourhood after a few close calls with kids. Every once in a while someone still tries to cut the corner and hits the rocks. Often enough that the rocks need to be moved back at least once a year.
Now, in the US I expect the rocks will be protests as soon as the first idiot backs into one of the rocks.
In the US the owner of the vehicle would likely try and sue the owner of the rocks.
In my area they raised the issue that crashing into them could injure or kill the driver lol.
They should also remove houses and all other buildings, way to dangerous if a driver crashes into them.
This big ass rock under our feet is a hazard, anyone can crash into it at any moment, especially the elderly and children
These have been around for years
Back meaning further back from the corner or back to where it was before the hit?
To before it was hit
I recently read something about how Paris uses temporary measures before redesigning a road, selling initial changes to the public as an experiment. By not immediately going to a final design, people seem to be more accepting of the end result even if that result is exactly the same as the temporary fix was. Almost as if the drivers need some time to let go of ‘their’ street. Guess these kinds of blocks can easily be used to ‘temporarily’ change a street layout, by making a street/lane for cars inaccessible for cars.
That’s a clever hack around how people are stupid and dislike change, any change, even good change.
I always laugh when I see a Jeep broken down on a trail, especially because I was once in a jeep broken down on a trail. Garbage cars!
Stellantis. Not even once.
But they have badges! 😆
Yeah, it’s hard to escape that opinion in my own mind.
I try to avoid sweeping generalisations like “american cars are shit” but it just seems to be born out so repetitively that it seems like a truism.
Jeep used to have a certain design aesthetic for their short wheel base models which has been great for decades. But reliability has never matched it and they haven’t been able to transfer it to their other models like the cherokee.
In the Australian offroad scene you never see anything american. The guys building the most capable machines are starting with toyotas and nissans.
I’ve been on enough trails to see all kinds of trucks broken down on trails.
Trail use is hard on vehicles of any kind.
Not that (most) Jeeps aren’t trash … but it’s not because you occasionally see a broken one on the trail.
True, but when my $1400 Mazda 2 Neo hatchback is sailing past a broken down $140000 off road beast I do admit to a little chuckle. I’ve taken my mini beast down some clearly stupid paths and it has yet to let me down. I’ve also never crashed into a roo or gotten myself stuck in a way I couldn’t fix because it is only 1300kg tare weight so I can literally push the car out of a ditch if needed and I couldn’t possibly do that with one of the urban tanks.
My pet rock will be so happy to see more friends while we’re out for our walks!
Not what I expected…
…but the next best thing.
That game was awesome once childhood me finally figured out the right way to play it.
I’ve sometimes considered that merely tossing/rolling midsize to large rocks into the middle of the road in random places might be a good way to protest car-centric infrastructure… Even a rock that’s only about fist-sized could still cause major problems for some cars.
Yeah the family of the underpaid Amazon worker will thank you for the medical bill.
