[UrbanAffair]

*white smoke*
We have bollards! Habemos Bollards!

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A couple of observations: if they could do bollards in this central section where the road above the subway station is the most shallow, then why install shin breaking concrete blocks everywhere else?

Like the concrete blocks, the bollards are far too closely spaced. Is there a 70cm wide car they’re worried about? All of the “anti-terror” infrastructure here seems not to be aimed at a functional and safe pedestrian plaza, but instead designed to pad contractor budgets.

This is that situation where you take the little win.

 

[WB62]

then why install shin breaking concrete blocks everywhere else?

The bollards (blue) were placed in areas that have nothing or almost nothing below them, the concrete blocks (red) were placed in areas the subway station and retail units are:

There does seem to be bollards placed over some of the TTC back of house space, but since it’s not a passenger area I imagine modifying it wouldn’t be too hard.

 

[nightstreak]

The bollards (blue) were placed in areas that have nothing or almost nothing below them, the concrete blocks (red) were placed in areas the subway station and retail units are:

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There does seem to be bollards placed over some of the TTC back of house space, but since it’s not a passenger area I imagine modifying it wouldn’t be too hard.

Then I hope this means that the side entrances down Bay, York and along Front — where there are still jersey barriers — will be bollards. There’s just a humongous amount of traffic walking and people will be tripping over the concrete blocks because you won’t see them walking in a crowd until you’re in front of it.

 

[Woodbridge_Heights]

To be fair, is it that hard to wheel the suitcase behind you? Honestly it's more polite to do that around Union given the amount of people moving around.

That said, these bollards are pretty meh, we could have done much better.

I find it easier to use a four wheeled luggage and push the bag in front of me.

 

[Dan416]

I do like the bollards better, but yeah they're very close together. Why can't we get anything right?