How I wish just one of those had concrete in it.
Ya I watched right to the end of the video hoping one of those was going to be the money shot.
Omg this would be such a good method to save money, just make some of them concrete and you never know which one
They should lose their car and license, and be made to repair all the damage they did. Maybe some community service, too.
My guess is those pop back up when knocked over. Hard to see in the video if they are standing back up after he hits them but i think they do. I agree he should loose his license and be charged with reckless driving.
Having seen people drive over these, they are designed to flop around for this very reason, but usually don't stand up to anything faster than walking speed unless they're brand new.
So I'm sure quite a few didn't pop back up.
Either way, I'd make them pay for the entire row and use the money to make a more permanent barrier (that'll never happen in the US)
They're designed to be knockable and pop back up to accommodate street sweepers and energy* vehicles, but not assholes going full speed
Edit: was sposed to say emergency vehicles
It's a shame there's not the occasional solid steel bar mixed in with them.
Rebuild every single one of those by hand, with concrete and rebar. Lose license permanently . Have to speak every year at high schools about anger management, inadequacy and insecurity, for life.
23rd Street, Santa Monica. August 9, 2026, a driver in a green truck runs over bollards in the protected bike lane. On August 19, Councilmember Dan Hall reports that the Santa Monica Police Department “has identified the vehicle and owner. They have had the vehicle towed for expired registration and are following up with the owner on the vandalism of public property.” @electdanhal Santa Monica has built 119 of the 187 miles of bikeway in its Bike Action Plan. Roughly five of those miles are protected. The half-mile on 23rd Street is protected by plastic barriers called “armadillos” while other areas, such as 17th Street are protected by concrete curbs.
Lol, 119 miles just a colored line, 5 miles this useless stuff? So none are actually protected
May be wrong
You got all of that wrong somehow, while extracting numbers from that one paragraph.
I live near enough to know the layout and while it's mostly just colored line, the streets are still usually bike friendly, assuming you don't see this nonsense.
What SM did was actually reduce parking to the point that it forced biking or bussing (and made permits for remaining spots, lol). Driving remains is almost all single lane torture with a 25 mph limit, single because when I was a kid it was two lanes and they decided they wanted a dedicated bike lane (specifically thinking Broadway but probably others).
SM is a small place, too. A ton of those miles are in residential areas with little room for expansion.
Very much deliberate action, probably votes Republican.
High probability.
Absolute certainty
No probably about it.
Needs concrete bollards.
Just one at random
That person should not be allowed to drive anything motorized ever.
I wouldn't want to be bicycling around that motherfucker, either.
Well that is fine because he will be too lazy and scared to leave his house without a giant truck
Of course it's a pickup truck. Classic fragile ego in his emotional support vehicle.
Gender affirming vehicle
That's why where I live (europe) those bad boys are full steel planted on the ground and not some wobbly noodles.
I would love to see one of them randomly replaced with a rigid bollard, but painted white to match
wHy Do bIkE lAnEs nEeD To bE pRotEcTeD?
We found him. The man with the smallest dick.
Those bollards need to be solid.
Just one of them
he should be finded for every single of those public infrastructure things he hit for their full replacement value outside of whatever the standard ticket and fine is.
Not good enough:
vehicle cubed and returned to his driveway.
and this is why I couldnt give a single fucking shit about any law that says bikes cant be on sidewalks/must be on roads or whatever.
because every fucking car is a hostile, imminent threat to a person on a bike.
And even the sidewalk isnt that safe, I've personally been on a sidewalk that had 4 feet of grass between me and the road and STILL have had assholes swerve through the verge to try and scare me/knock me down/make me crash/whatever their sociopathic intent.
edit: and yes, it was by an asshole in a truck. Its almost always an asshole in a truck.
Send that to the local authorities?
Imagine how miserable the life of this individual must be for him to do this. Smh
He must hate people with fit legs?
Jealousy?
You mean people with non-micropenises. Only jealous or fearful people carry that much hate around.
Dodge ram driver doing dodge ram driver shit.
I've never wanted just one of those to be a concrete bollard so badly...
Make it the same height and color, and just place it somewhere randomly within all the plastic ones 😈
Why do pickup drivers hate cyclists? I saw another video of a pickup terrorizing a cyclist recently.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1u7Szmrgwg4
It's a short with annoying voice over dude
If you were paying 2k a month on a luxury truck loan to pay 6 bucks for a gallon of gas to go 11 miles at traffic speeds slower than a bike on the shoulder, you too would be incredibly stupid and irate.
Also, that truck driver needs to have their license pulled indefinitely and the truck impounded. That's multiple murder attempts happening in a few minutes. I don't give a fuck if public transport sucks, or if you are crippled and can't walk anywhere. Should have thought of that before you tried to kill someone multiple times with your truck.
Pickup drivers are just assholes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA
The "light" truck is intentionally marketed to people with that personality type. (I wish I was kidding - I'm not.)
Honestly too stupid to be alive
In his defense, he could not see them. /s
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