Showing posts with label bollard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bollard. Show all posts

Monday, December 9, 2024

MUSIC OF THE SPHERES


I guess you would call these things bollards. They are concrete and it’s hard  to imagine how they were made into such perfect spheres with no visible seam. What would be the second one is missing. Maybe it was damaged. Maybe some very strong prankster rolled it down the hill.                    

Sunday, July 12, 2015

What's A Bollard?


This area has lots of bicycle trails. One starts just north of downtown and runs through an old, somewhat barren industrial area along the Mississippi to a point north of the city limits. It's not too busy. The part seen here is on the river side of the flood wall. If Big Muddy rises about two more feet this trail will be covered.

I had never run into the word bollard until they became a ubiquitous security device. The parts of the Arch park along streets are lined with them, like rows of little soldiers protecting the monument. I looked it up. The term comes from those posts on docks that boats are tied up to. Here, they block cars from driving onto the southern end of the trail.