To stop cars going over corners. Occasionally cars become marooned on them and at least one has got right on top of it then toppled over on its side.
>A bell bollard is a style of short bollard designed to deflect vehicle tires. The wheel mounts the lower part of the bollard and is deflected by its increasing slope.
To protect pedestrians from BMW and range rover drivers
Bollards to help stop cars/trucks cutting over the pavement.
Did once see a car that got turned over by going over one – pretty mental!
They’re called bell bollards and are there to prevent cars mounting the pavement on tighter roads.
They’re a type of bollard used on tight corners, particularly where long vehicles have a tendency to accidentally cut the corner with their rear wheel and endanger pedestrians. The angle is designed to both defend the pavement user and deflect the wheel back to the road. However larger vehicles like articulated lorries occasionally manage to cut the corner so agregiously that their wheels go over the bollard entirely and damage the tyre or strand the trailer.
As other people have commented, it’s a bollard for traffic calming. In particular these are robust to large vehicles trying to cut the corner. It’s a very old school solution so been in place for some time. London is blessed with a real variety of them. It’s pretty geeky but there are some really interesting ones including some made literally from cannons. Once you start noticing the different types it’s another weird/cool thing about London. The City of London ones are quite ornate and attractive.
It’s an bellcalibur. Like Excalibur, if you can pick it up you become king of the castle
It’s specifically to stop cutting across and damaging the pavement/endangering pedestrians. It’s built to deflect tyres and because the more basic versions, eg wooden poles, get driven over by bigger vehicles or even pulled out by people.
There should be more of these type of bollards especially in the cities generally.
They’re for docking
Bell bollard, aka HGV tyre flattened
I’m pretty sure the hole on the top makes it obvious that this is for anchoring your boat to
Exterminate!
to prevent bellends mounting to curb at narrow points
C*nt stoppers
They stop driving c*nts being c*nts
We call thems “City Titties” back in Texas.
They’re just bell shaped bollards. If you drive onto them, the wheel will be pushed back, so the car will be redirected away from the curb
My fiancée was driving us somewhere in East London a few weeks ago. There were roadworks on the right hand side of the road, and as she went to pull out at the junction to turn left, a car swung into our road, ending up on our side of the road because of the roadworks. She tried to move to the left a bit to get out of the way and ended up smashing the fuck out of our car on one of these things because she couldn’t see it. To make it even worse, the kerb was dipped so we didn’t even hit that first as a warning shot
People cut INCREDIBLY wide of them while driving. Somehow the fact they’re short makes many drivers think they also have an invisible forcefield or something.
Bell bollards to stop bell ends driving from hitting other bell ends that are staring at their phone while crossing
Ah, I love this time of year. The baby Dalek’s are popping up all over the place.
They’re bellends to stop bellends being bellends
It’s for when you want to look cool and flip your car onto its roof
To stop people that drive like bells mounting the pavement
Bell bollards. I drew the detailing on them once upon a time. They’re buried deep & have a hole way below the surface they put a metal bar through, which is then set in a concrete block. It will tear the undercarriage out of a lorry.
I’ve seen a young BMW driver (wannabe Gangster) who was trying to make a turn and drove a bit over this type of Ballard and managed to flip the car over.
Then he started shouting at girl sitting next to him. (They were still upside down)
It was hilarious
They look like bells so they stop bellends driving over them.
Stops idiots taking the corner too sharp and running over pedestrians
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Prevent people from rolling the curb?
Bell bollards
To stop cars going over corners. Occasionally cars become marooned on them and at least one has got right on top of it then toppled over on its side.
>A bell bollard is a style of short bollard designed to deflect vehicle tires. The wheel mounts the lower part of the bollard and is deflected by its increasing slope.
according to Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_bollard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_bollard)
https://www.furnitubes.com/street-furniture/product/bell-bollard/#:~:text=The%20revolutionary%20Bell%20Bollard%20still,and%20may%20not%20be%20reproduced.
To protect pedestrians from BMW and range rover drivers
Bollards to help stop cars/trucks cutting over the pavement.
Did once see a car that got turned over by going over one – pretty mental!
They’re called bell bollards and are there to prevent cars mounting the pavement on tighter roads.
They’re a type of bollard used on tight corners, particularly where long vehicles have a tendency to accidentally cut the corner with their rear wheel and endanger pedestrians. The angle is designed to both defend the pavement user and deflect the wheel back to the road. However larger vehicles like articulated lorries occasionally manage to cut the corner so agregiously that their wheels go over the bollard entirely and damage the tyre or strand the trailer.
As other people have commented, it’s a bollard for traffic calming. In particular these are robust to large vehicles trying to cut the corner. It’s a very old school solution so been in place for some time. London is blessed with a real variety of them. It’s pretty geeky but there are some really interesting ones including some made literally from cannons. Once you start noticing the different types it’s another weird/cool thing about London. The City of London ones are quite ornate and attractive.
It’s an bellcalibur. Like Excalibur, if you can pick it up you become king of the castle
It’s specifically to stop cutting across and damaging the pavement/endangering pedestrians. It’s built to deflect tyres and because the more basic versions, eg wooden poles, get driven over by bigger vehicles or even pulled out by people.
https://preview.redd.it/0ii46orjogbf1.jpeg?width=3213&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=449aea645d7c4c53995867bb8a128cc7ea1ff091
They do this to trucks that try to cut corners.
To stop trucks and hgvs from encroaching on the pavement basically. And I thing they call them bells
Typical London bell-ends
https://preview.redd.it/oqr09ytrqgbf1.jpeg?width=3314&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcdfecd8ad9f831000d54479004a8024d68aa5a1
you tie your boat to them so it doesnt drift off
François?
There should be more of these type of bollards especially in the cities generally.
They’re for docking
Bell bollard, aka HGV tyre flattened
I’m pretty sure the hole on the top makes it obvious that this is for anchoring your boat to
Exterminate!
to prevent bellends mounting to curb at narrow points
C*nt stoppers
They stop driving c*nts being c*nts
We call thems “City Titties” back in Texas.
They’re just bell shaped bollards. If you drive onto them, the wheel will be pushed back, so the car will be redirected away from the curb
My fiancée was driving us somewhere in East London a few weeks ago. There were roadworks on the right hand side of the road, and as she went to pull out at the junction to turn left, a car swung into our road, ending up on our side of the road because of the roadworks. She tried to move to the left a bit to get out of the way and ended up smashing the fuck out of our car on one of these things because she couldn’t see it. To make it even worse, the kerb was dipped so we didn’t even hit that first as a warning shot
People cut INCREDIBLY wide of them while driving. Somehow the fact they’re short makes many drivers think they also have an invisible forcefield or something.
Bell bollards to stop bell ends driving from hitting other bell ends that are staring at their phone while crossing
Ah, I love this time of year. The baby Dalek’s are popping up all over the place.
They’re bellends to stop bellends being bellends
It’s for when you want to look cool and flip your car onto its roof
To stop people that drive like bells mounting the pavement
Bell bollards. I drew the detailing on them once upon a time. They’re buried deep & have a hole way below the surface they put a metal bar through, which is then set in a concrete block. It will tear the undercarriage out of a lorry.
I’ve seen a young BMW driver (wannabe Gangster) who was trying to make a turn and drove a bit over this type of Ballard and managed to flip the car over.
Then he started shouting at girl sitting next to him. (They were still upside down)
It was hilarious
They look like bells so they stop bellends driving over them.
Stops idiots taking the corner too sharp and running over pedestrians
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