The sidewalks around Times Square are secured with more than 200 steel bollards intended to prevent accidental or criminal vehicle intrusions, said Rob Reiter, chief security consultant for CalPipe Security Bollards.
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But agents told the newspaper that despite fixing and welding the damaged bollards, smugglers still return to the same spot because the metal and the concrete at the bollards' cores have already been weakened.
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Lines of scooters were vying for space with the vintage street bollards.
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Newer fencing generally consists of 18- to 2150-foot-tall steel bollards.
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Bollards were not placed farther south along the path of Tuesday's attack.
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And London has installed bollards to keep people out of harm's way.
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But the history of bollards in Istanbul presents Ögel with a twofold opportunity.
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There are no bollards to prevent access by a car at that location.
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Bollards - sturdy, vertical posts that can stop vehicles - were added a few years later.
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The bollards could sink into the ground if emergency or park vehicles needed access.
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The bollards are designed to stop vehicles going about 30 miles an hour, he said.
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"Without those bollards, the incident would have seen far greater harm to pedestrians," Burney said.
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Someone has carefully measured this concrete abomination & lovingly sewn it a fabric cover #bollards pic.twitter.
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On cue, he positioned his tusk through the bollards and the two-hour procedure began.
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"Everyone's first reaction yesterday was to have bollards put onto the bike path," he said.
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The counterterrorism method for this would be the placement of concrete bollards to restrict vehicular access.
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It aimed to improve congestion and safety, but not all sidewalks were fitted with safety bollards.
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Steps include the installation of bollards along main streets, and at shopping centers and outside sporting grounds.
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Protesters uprooted metal fences from surrounding streets and dragged heavy bollards and bins to barricade the streets.
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Parliament is already ringed by crash bollards, balustrades and steel barricades, put in place after the Sept.
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The agents told the Post the saws can cut through the bollards in a matter of minutes.
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Balaclava-clad protesters chant "The whole world hates the police" and tear traffic bollards out of the sidewalk.
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For three sweet months I did little more than vault bollards and attempt frontflips off yellow grit bins.
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His hope is that other artists will follow his lead, and create similar colourful designs for the bollards.
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He wondered if the bikers and pedestrians would want the path impeded by bollards or other safety barriers.
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The company makes bollards, floodlights, wall lights, strips, and dozens of other automated, colorful products for the backyard.
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After that crash, the police installed bollards in various pedestrian areas in central Melbourne to prevent similar episodes.
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In a statement, the Panama Canal Authority acknowledged that certain vessels would likely need new chocks and bollards added.
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But planners never considered putting bollards along all of the sidewalks, Burney and another person involved with planning said.
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At the news conference, the mayor did not take questions and said little regarding tactics, besides installing the bollards.
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Every year, a groundskeeper opens the bollards that block street access to the grave for one day, on Feb.
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Bollards or strategically placed planters near the entrance can also be used to prevent someone driving into the building.
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Parliament was already surrounded by lines of crash bollards, balustrades and steel barricades, put in place after the Sept.
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Target did a similar promotion last year for the launch of Pokémon Go, painting the bollards like giant Poké Balls.
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Details: Trump wants the bollards to be painted black so it will be too hot for climbers in the summer.
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Since smugglers usually cut through one of the bollards, it's easy for agents to replace the parts that get damaged.
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When fitted with specialized blades, the tool can cut through one of the wall's steel and concrete bollards in minutes.
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But for these folks, "crime" involves using traffic cones or plastic bollards to protect bike lanes from cars without proper permitting.
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" She continued: "In the event that one of the steel bollards becomes damaged, it is quick and cost-effective to repair.
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If there's any major difference in speed, then full separation is required — concrete barriers, a grass median, planter boxes, or bollards.
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Steel bollards have been put up in sensitive areas, and there are now concrete blocks stopping vehicles from approaching tram stops.
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Police said that incident was not terrorism-related but the city has put up about 140 concrete bollards around its center.
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In the redesign, decisions on the placement of bollards were based on recommendations from the New York Police Department, Burney said.
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The building is surrounded by a moat deep enough to stop a large vehicle while concrete bollards are hidden in hedges.
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As he stood in front of the bollards near the Bellagio, he held a frozen margarita in his hand and grinned.
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If you've ever been to Target, you've probably seen giant, red, cement balls installed near the entrance of some stores (called bollards).
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"We can't fill up Barcelona with bollards," Joaquim Forn, who runs home affairs in the Catalonia region, told Spanish radio last week.
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The Trump administration says it's now using the emergency declaration money to complete those same projects — and it's explicitly said it's using bollards.
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And the new wall isn't exactly impenetrable, despite Trump's bragging: smugglers have reportedly cut through the wall's steel bollards with cheap reciprocating saws.
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In the last week, Melbourne, Australia, has had more than 100 newly installed concrete bollards pop up around the city's walkways and roads.
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The latest injection of funds will add more bollards to the iconic New Years Eve destination and expand their presence throughout the city.
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Many more could have been hurt had his car not slammed into the three-foot-high steel bollards guarding the pedestrian plaza there.
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The city increased its police presence there, but officials decided that bollards would hinder access for cleaning and emergency services and disrupt traffic.
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Even a less-than-solid wall that incorporates bollards or "slats," as Mr. Trump has sometimes proposed, could disrupt wildlife, Dr. Flesch said.
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With no warning, they enter a world where cones trump double yellow lines, bollards replace curbs, and construction worker hand signals outweigh traffic lights.
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Trump administration officials have called for wall, but changed the definition of a wall at every turn, from steel barriers, concrete slabs, to bollards.
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The city bars the placement of bollards in front of individual buildings unless the NYPD deems them to be a potential target, he said.
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Concrete barriers Australian authorities set up concrete bollards along some Melbourne city roads in June after a series of vehicle-related terror attacks worldwide.
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He should lead an effort to add bollards wherever possible, without turning public spaces into pedestrian-hostile security theaters like Wall Street has become.
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Its dimensions allow it to fit through standard commercial doorframes for deliveries and between anti-terrorism bollards that have been placed on dedicated bike paths.
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The cities placed the squat posts known as bollards, planters and cement barriers along busy pedestrian streets and squares to restrict access and improve security.
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In Barcelona, the authorities decided not to introduce bollards along Las Ramblas, the promenade where 13 people were run down by a van last Thursday.
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GOODMAN: Well, you know, I think what we have done out on the Strip, we have put up these bollards for people who are in cars.
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State officials say there have been occasional security episodes, including one when a man drove a pickup truck up the Capitol's west steps (thus the bollards).
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Ringed by concrete bollards, the Berlin market reopened on Thursday, with candles, flowers and flags laid amid the small festive huts in tribute to those killed.
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Known as bollards, the cylindrical metal posts will replace concrete barriers that went up on sidewalks after vehicle-related attacks in Times Square and Lower Manhattan.
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For security, sidewalk bollards will ring the property, Disney and ABC signs will be limited, and there will be no street-level, glass-walled TV studio.
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Transportation Alternatives called for several reforms, including closing as many vehicle access points as possible and installing retractable bollards at crossings that have to remain open.
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The city's transportation commissioner, Polly Trottenberg, said that installing bollards is complicated because of the infrastructure and subway lines below some of the city's busiest areas.
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As I walked down the barges, maneuvering around bollards, hatch covers, cables and ropes, I felt like I was peering into a series of living rooms.
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Soon, families that didn't have the right paperwork to cross started coming to either side on weekends to catch up with each other across the bollards.
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Installing remote-controlled bollards—short posts—he said, could also help keep a barrier in between cars and people, and can be moved for ambulances or police.
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"I understand the debate, but this is not practical ... we can't fill up Barcelona with bollards," Joaquim Forn, who runs home affairs in Catalonia, told Spanish radio.
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"I'm certain in Manchester now similar questions are being asked," he commented, referring to discussions surrounding the adequacy of personnel numbers and physical infrastructure such as bollards.
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City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the council's transportation committee, on Friday said he planned to introduce legislation that would require installation of bollards along busy sidewalks.
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Some main roads are getting two-metre-wide cycle-paths that are separated from traffic by bollards, to stop motorists parking on bike-paths, a common outrage.
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Melbourne has installed about 140 concrete bollards in the city center to stop vehicle attacks by militants similar to recent attacks in Europe and the United States.
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There have been no trash cans in the Tube system since the era of IRA attacks, and there are bollards everywhere to prevent vehicles mounting the sidewalk.
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They patrol on bikes and in their white vehicles in Calexico, whose downtown sits up against the rust-colored bollards that separate the United States and Mexico.
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After cutting the steel bollards, smugglers have taken to returning them to their original positions in hope of reusing the passage without being detected by border officials.
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"In my mind, the exclusionary zone, the bollards, the guard booths, and the walls of concrete hiding under reflective glass at Ground Zero do that," he said.
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Heavy bollards are simple and can be very effective in stopping vehicles, whether loaded with explosives or intent on killing by charging the Royal Procession and the crowds.
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The city envisioned the project as creating two distinct kinds of spaces - pedestrian plazas and sidewalks - with the bollards used mostly to surround and protect the pedestrian zones.
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Trek-Segafredo's Fabio Felline and Sunweb's Mike Teunissen crashed after hitting bollards placed in the middle of the road after a tight, unsighted corner with 25km to ride.
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Concrete bollards were erected along the side of some Melbourne city roads by the government in June, after a number of vehicle-related terror attacks around the world.
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The city has also set up 800 concrete bollards along the Strip to protect concertgoers from errant vehicles -- with an additional 7,500 planned for next year, officials said.
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As with the bollards and bottlenecks that are a rational, tactical response to urban terrorism, there can be reasonable safety justifications for pins and ropes and similar features.
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Soon, at Mr. Kelly's recommendation, pedestrian plazas that had replaced roadway along a five-block stretch of Broadway were guarded by three-foot-tall, stainless-steel cylindrical bollards.
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But he said installing too many bollards could impede people who might be trying to flee buildings in emergencies and hinder vehicles that might be trying to respond.
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David Burney, the commissioner of the Department of Design and Construction under former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, said sidewalks were already too crowded to accommodate many extra bollards.
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The city will spend an additional $50 million on installing the new bollards in busy, high-profile areas and other efforts to protect public spaces, the mayor said.
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Bollards are not unique in this process; we are talking here about the introduction of widespread phenomena such as master plans, social housing, commercial boulevards, public squares, and passages.
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"He then must have panicked and hit the accelerator causing the Porsche to go further under the orange car and pushing the white car into the bollards," Bouzaid said.
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In particular, bollards — metal poles that would block vehicles from accessing the path — were not installed at most of the access points where cars can turn onto the path.
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And building a wall out of bollards means buying a lot of steel — which might be an expensive proposition when Trump is placing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.
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Sources said the blueprint allows for $1.375 billion in border bollards but includes a prohibition on concrete walling and permits only "existing technologies" to be used in frontier barriers.
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In May, one of those bollards halted a car speeding down a crowded sidewalk in Times Square, but not until it had killed one person and injured more than 20.
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Heavy-duty replacements for the temporary concrete barriers at the locations will begin this month, while the years-long project to install the bollards is expected to begin in March.
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Starting this month, the temporary concrete barriers will be replaced by what the city described as "more attractive temporary blocks" before installation of the permanent metal bollards begins in March.
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That $5.7 billion, according to the new letter, would be able to build 234 new miles of border barriers, which would all be steel bollards instead of any concrete wall.
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He spoke, for example, of the Madame Tussauds waxworks museum as a potential location because there were no traffic bollards there, and also considered attacking an open-top tour bus.
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The Department of Homeland Security says construction will begin on the first new segment — six miles of reinforced concrete levee wall topped with steel bollards in Hidalgo County — in February.
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After Eric was killed, the city of New York put up a few plastic bollards along the bike path, as though this was not a car problem, but a bollard problem.
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Of course, bollards alone are less than perfect means to prevent vehicle assaults unless part of a broader security plan that ensures pedestrian areas are inaccessible to vehicles from any route.
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Since the attack, city and state officials have discussed taking immediate steps to tighten security on that stretch of the path, including adding more bollards, blocks and jersey barriers, she said.
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The money will go toward a range of safety measures, including installing 1,500 metal bollards at some of the city's most-visited locations and placing large planters at other vulnerable spots.
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Aside from Times Square, city officials declined to say where many of the bollards would go and noted that it would take a few years to install all 1,500 of them.
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Ms. Samponaro said there were also bollards on the path at Barclay Street, a few blocks south of Chambers Street, where Mr. Saipov's truck struck a bus and came to a stop.
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"The bollards are not the most evolved design; they are the most evolved that we could pay for," Ronald Vitiello, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the Post.
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I'm not saying it's the police's fault ... (but) I don't know, maybe you can't put in bollards, but if we're on high alert, you could have police vans stationed there blocking the way.
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New York City has installed steel bollards all around town, and some streets near the stock exchange, the 9/11 memorial and police headquarters have retractable barriers that prevent vehicles entering at all.
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The Times Square incident might have been even worse if not for the short steel posts, known as bollards, installed last autumn in some parts of the area to protect pedestrians, officials said.
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Tasked with parking a Porsche Carrera for a hotel guest, he managed to wedge it under the SUV parked in front, and ram a second parked car against a row of metal bollards.
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Some of the breaches have reportedly occurred in areas where electronic sensors, which would be able to swiftly detect vibrations from tools such as saws on the bollards, have not yet been installed.
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Last May, bollards on 45th Street eventually stopped the car whose driver, high on PCP, had driven along three city blocks of sidewalk, killing an 18-year-old woman and injuring 20 people.
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After the truck-ramming attack in Nice, officials in Antwerp, Belgium, erected retractable bollards on side streets off the Meir, the main commercial artery, closing it to traffic during the busiest shopping hours.
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The most common measure gaining steam in cities like Washington, Las Vegas, New York City and Los Angeles is erecting bollards, or physical barriers, to serve as a guardrail between vehicles and pedestrians.
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These bollards were installed on the advice of a police department counterterrorism expert who'd read a 2010 article in Al Qaeda's English-language magazine calling on attackers to use vehicles to "mow down" pedestrians.
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Craig Dykers, founding partner of Snohetta, the architectural firm on the project, said the bollards were designed to be thinner and spaced widely enough to allow two people to pass through side by side.
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Of late, smugglers have reportedly been cutting through the wall — which is made of steel bollards that are partially filled with concrete — to make gaps large enough for people and goods to pass through.
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Government buildings in places like Whitehall have long been surrounded by bollards, but concrete obstacles were not put in place on London's most important bridges until Monday morning, more than a day after the attacks.
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The agreement would provide $1.375 billion in funding for 55 miles of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border that would be comprised of steel slats or bollards, not concrete, according to a congressional source.
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A spokesman for the Transportation Department, Scott Gastel, said that there are "nearly 50 locations with such permanent bollards" around the city, but that they had mainly been installed by private entities, or diplomatic missions.
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The city is considering adding bollards on sidewalks around Times Square to match those around pedestrian plazas, the Police Department's deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, John J. Miller, told the City Council on Monday.
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The bollards are removable — so fire trucks and billboard maintenance vehicles — can enter the pedestrian plazas, and planted just under the surface of the street so as not to interfere with the subway system below.
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He said planners determined that bollards were needed on the plazas but not on all the sidewalks, because people relaxing at patio tables and pedestrians distracted by performances would be more vulnerable in the plazas.
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Portland's 218 miles of bike routes include "neighborhood greenways" that give priority to bicyclists on local streets by lowering the speed limit to 210 miles per hour and strategically placing bollards to divert car traffic.
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Engineers told the newspaper that because of the height of the bollards, which are between 18 to 30 feet tall, it's easier to push the steel out of the way to pass through the other side.
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Ydanis Rodriguez, a city councilman who is the chairman of the transportation committee, said he began drafting legislation several months ago to ask that bollards be installed outside schools and on busy corners across the city.
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In the wake of these attacks, Israeli officials began using giant concrete blocks and bollards at high-risk locations as well as setting up modular vehicle barriers (MVBs) to seal off areas for given periods of time.
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Called a levee wall system, the project includes the construction of a reinforced concrete levee wall, 18-foot-tall steel bollards installed on top of the concrete wall, and vegetation removal along a 150-foot enforcement zone.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia, hit last week by two Islamist militant attacks which killed 15 people, is to deploy more police, install bollards in Barcelona and step up security around stations and tourist landmarks.
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The new structure has steel bollards, anchored in concrete, that reach 18 to 30 feet in height and will have lighting, cameras, sensors and improved roads to allow U.S. agents to respond quickly along an expanded 'enforcement zone.
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The bollards in Ögel's current exhibition recreate this space of transition in the present and address the dreamlike distortion effect of modern life upon our memory, showing how this has transformed our understanding of both time and the past.
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In Albany, Orlando and elsewhere, JCC staffers have tried to bolster security -- and ease parents' peace of mind -- by closing entrances, blocking phone calls from unknown numbers and posting bollards to block vehicles from getting close to their buildings.
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And across 22000 miles of the border, even before Trump got into office, there was some form of physical barrier — from Vietnam-surplus landing mats to the steel bollards, or "slats," Trump now favors for his wall as well.
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New York collects about $60 million annually for allowing signs, ornamental lampposts, stand-alone clocks, benches, bollards, planters, permanent trash receptacles, delivery ramps and just about anything else imaginable on, over or under the city's 12,000 miles of sidewalks.
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Unfortunately, no bollards were around to stop the monstrous attack this week by a driver speeding down the Hudson River Greenway bicycle path, the most recent in an increasingly common spate of terrorists' ramming vehicles into crowds of people.
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As president, Trump has occasionally found himself caught between what actual border experts want in a physical barrier — steel bollards with enough space to see between them — and the literal concrete wall that his supporters feel they are due.
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Some things cities and governments are doing to counter the threat: THE BASIC BOLLARD — AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT Whether a post dug into a sidewalk or an unwieldy hunk of concrete, bollards are the most common anti-car shield.
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Sources told the Post that cartels and smuggling organizations have used a tool called a reciprocating saw — the cheapest of which cost less than $100 at most hardware stores — to cut through the wall's steel bollards in certain sectors in California.
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Zabag Security Engineering, a maker of high-tech security gates and bollards, said it is looking for a new supplier in the EU for the grid mats it currently imports from Britain to avoid any disruptions to its supply chain.
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Police said bollards would be installed along the route of the Melbourne Cup Parade through the Central Business District on Monday, where crowds welcome the horses and jockeys for the A$6.2 million ($4.75 million) race, the nation's most famous.
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The first three questions were related to terrorism: how to conduct police surveillance without violating civil liberties of Muslim New Yorkers; building bollards to better secure pedestrian and cycling areas; and reacting to President Trump's comments on further restrictions to immigration.
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The Nice attack involved a man who killed 86 people as he plowed a stolen cargo truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day, and the local authorities have invested around 20 million euros to protect pedestrians with bollards and steel fences.
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The new fencing that agents require is for three sectors of the border, and would mainly consist of metal or concrete bollards clustered closely enough to prevent people from squeezing through, according to a March email between Border Patrol officials.
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The thin, cylindrical, waist-height metal bollards are intended to be a more attractive alternative to the hulking concrete blocks the New York Police Department had deposited in busier areas around the city following the vehicle attacks, de Blasio said.
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The current redesign of the site calls for six new circular planters with engaged seating (larger than those of the original design), along with eight light bollards, along Cedar Street, thus replacing the linear planting beds now in that location.
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If you'd rather not get trampled by teens and/or grown adults racing through the store on their karts, you can catch a glimpse of additional decorations outside the store — Target's will transform the big, red bollards into disembodied Mario and Luigi heads.
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The modifications to these bigger oil carriers - which mostly involve fittings such as chocks and bollards that secure the ship's dock and tow lines - are needed because the new locks that opened in June use tug boats rather than locomotives to pull vessels.
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At a news conference in Times Square on Tuesday, Mr. de Blasio said the bollards — metal posts intended to block vehicles — would replace some of the concrete cubes and barriers that had been placed as temporary measures near pedestrian areas vulnerable to attack.
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When I met with Cavazos and Anzaldua, the project was still legally stalled—a lawyer later explained that the steel bollards we saw likely didn't violate the order, because although they were in place, they hadn't actually been set in the ground.
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A polyphonic stream of consciousness sets the background for a centerpiece installation (titled after the show) made of iconic street bollards from both Istanbul and Paris, aptly called baba (father) in Turkish slang, which are used to control traffic or obstruct passage in urban space.
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The section of the wall they will be painting is located in Calexico, California, according to the email from DHS, which said there "may also be an operational benefit" to painting it as "individuals appeared to have greater difficulty" scaling recently painted bollards in Nogales, Arizona.
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The Capitol in Salt Lake City may not have metal detectors, but in other ways it has the makings of a hilltop fortress: armed troopers in the driveway, bollards to keep vehicles away, a network of surveillance cameras, even an engineering system to guard against earthquake damage.
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The ability of agents to see through a barrier is crucial to their safety, and a fence made out of steel posts or "bollards" is easier to repair when breached and relatively cost effective, he said, while the 30-foot height is a deterrent to climbers.
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This is part of a 6-mile project in Hidalgo County, Texas, that was announced in November to construct and install a reinforced concrete levee wall to the height of the existing levee, as well as 18-foot-tall steel bollards on top of the concrete wall.
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Gally Battat, 24, an American who lives near the area and was a few streets away from where the attack took place, said he had last week noticed that there were no bollards on Las Ramblas and other areas that would be likely targets for a car attack.
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But after two years of actually being president, and having an administration that knows what's feasible to construct and what Border Patrol agents actually prefer, his administration is exclusively building barriers out of steel bollards — the construction style that was the gold standard for barrier construction even before Trump.
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The marchers had converged on the town of Tuen Mun, in the west of the New Territories, where some set fire to a Chinese flag as others tore down wooden and metal fences and traffic bollards to build road blocks, at least one of which was set alight.
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Do you ever think to yourself that we, mankind, the human race, built the pyramids, created underfloor heating, invented microwaveable cheeseburgers and drama and iron lungs and bollards and the concept of shame and the galvanised bin, and as such, we deserve a better world than the one we got?
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The vehicles will be able to capture a host of data, detecting, processing and sending it to the cloud to be aggregated, after which it will be sent to OS. The technology will be able to recognize and classify everything from traffic lights and road signs to road markings, drainage grates and bollards.
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Ram-raiding, a once-common crime in which criminals crash cars or vans through the front of shops or banks in order to loot them, is largely a thing of the past, says Nick Tilley, a criminologist at University College London, because of innovations such as the introduction of bollards in front of such premises and security shutters to protect shopfronts.
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In the weeks to come there will be conversations, as there have in the past and as there should be, about what can and must be done to make our public spaces safer for pedestrians and cyclists (thin steel bollards, for example, which prevented the recent attack in Times Square from being much worse, would have prevented the truck from accessing the path), but for now, the best response from all of us, whether you're a New Yorker, a cyclist, or both, is to remain unafraid, and to applaud and encourage a government that acknowledges and supports the brave act of riding a bike on city streets and pathways.
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