Car Park: Why Use Bollards?

By John Schofield

When you look around, you will see bollards in a lot of different places. You will see these mostly in car parks. Bollards are really useful in a car park. Bollards are placed in many different locations because of the advantages it provides. Bollards have a lot of advantages but its advantages are mainly for the safety of vehicles and pedestrians.

For the Safety of Vehicles and Pedestrians

In getting your vehicles park and in driving, here are the advantages of having bollards:

— Roads have sidewalks for pedestrians and main road for the vehicles. For protection, bollards are being used to separate vehicles from pedestrians. Boundaries are being set so that accidents could be avoided.

— Bollards are used in parking lots to give a designated space for each car. This way, space could be maximized and bumping of cars from one another could be avoided.

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— There are bollards that could be moved. This kind of bollards is used to block roads in certain situations and occasions. This is a great kind of bollard since it could be removed and placed back anytime they need to.

— Bollards are great in controlling traffic. It could organize things for the pedestrians and for the vehicles.

These are just some of the main benefits of bollards for vehicles and pedestrians.

Decorating Car Parks and Other Spaces

Now, if you are trying to have a car park for your establishment, you might want to consider putting bollards for different reasons aside from those stated above. Bollards have a lot of uses and benefits and things mentioned above are just some of the benefits it provides. Bollards could be useful in decorating car parks and other spaces. You could use bollards for decorative purposes too. Because of its decorative purposes, bollards are being used in car parks, amusements parks, nature parks, city roads and streets, docks and in a lot of other places. One great example of decorative bollards is lighting bollard. This kind of bollard is great to look at and it gives a certain feel during night time. This is why most leisure parks have this kind bollards installed.

The Different Kinds of Bollards for Parks

Whether you want to install bollards for decorative or for safety purposes, you could find a lot of different kinds of bollards out there. If you look around, here are the different kinds of bollards that you could install in your car park, leisure park, establishment or in any other kind of spaces you have:

1. Movable bollards- these are being used for roads when they want to close a certain road for vehicle access. This is great since it could be removed and placed back anytime.

2. Road bollards- these are mainly used in roads to separate pedestrians from vehicles.

3. Maritime bollards- used in docks and shores.

4. Sculpted bollards- this kind of bollards is sculpted to give a great aesthetic to different places. You will find this kind of bollards at museums and other tourist and historical places.

5. Steel bollards- bollards made of steel.

These are just some and there are a lot more.

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