These are the enemies against which modern designers and engineers seek to pit their skills, producing new deterrents and defences ranging from bandages to bollards, which aim to combine effectiveness with ease of use".SAFE: Design Takes On Risk", a new show at the Museum of Modern Art, looks at how designers rise to the challenge.
But anything went: car doors, girders, industrial springs, bollards and bedsteads, all piled up in a great rusting heap outside his studio in Camden Town.
And why do so many policemen, by not using their indicators, going through red lights and, in the case of the motorcycle police, riding the wrong side of traffic bollards, so often set a bad example?
In places, bollards have been erected to stop vehicles straying where the pavement would be.
Bollards (mooring posts) on the lockside are used for holding vessels steady by ropes against the turbulence during lock operation; mooring hooks set in recesses in the walls provide an alternative anchorage against surging.
Floating bollards are provided in deep locks; retained in wall recesses, they rise or fall with the vessel, obviating the need for continuous adjustment of the ropes.
At one point, because of a diversion, I found myself walking between a narrow set of bollards on the middle of the North Circular Road at rush hour, the smell of exhausts from the ranks of stationary cars almost overcoming me.
He'd bring bollards and we'd have to run around them and do sit ups and then he'd throw the ball so I'd have to header it".
Those stevedores now ran down to the dock and removed the ship's thick ropes from the bollards; then three small tugboats came alongside the Odyssey, two to push and one to pull the ship into the harbor.
More bollards, cleats, capstans, hoists, and other riverside mooring paraphernalia — some of it freshly painted — than you would think could possibly have an ongoing nautical application in New York City.
We accelerated tipsily and zoomed off into Paris traffic, dodging bollards and side mirrors.
