{"id":5062,"date":"2012-06-22T10:34:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2012-06-22T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:34:06","slug":"clarendon-cycles-stupid-bollards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2012\/06\/22\/clarendon-cycles-stupid-bollards\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarendon Cycles: Stupid )(*@#@# Bollards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week my Clarendon Cycles column touched on a topic that, over the past year, has moved from mildly annoying to outright ridiculous: the <a href=\"http:\/\/clarendon.patch.com\/articles\/bollards-a-barrier-to-safety\">proliferation of useless bollards on area trails<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0If Arlington County had merely been slow in removing what are obviously pretty useless obstacles, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;d be terribly moved by the issue. \u00c2\u00a0But someone in Arlington County recently decided that the problem is that we don&#8217;t have <em>enough<\/em> bollards. \u00c2\u00a0If I didn&#8217;t know better, I&#8217;d say the new installation at the East Falls Church bridge was an effort at satire, but I don&#8217;t think it came out of Arlington County&#8217;s art budget.<\/p>\n<p>(Recent bollard ridiculousness isn&#8217;t limited to Arlington &#8211; the new ones in the middle of the Mount Vernon Trail at the base of the Wilson Bridge? \u00c2\u00a0Are apparently there to keep Teh Terrorists away. \u00c2\u00a0That&#8217;s right, we&#8217;re worried that terrorists just might drive over the Wilson Bridge. \u00c2\u00a0Christ.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week my Clarendon Cycles column touched on a topic that, over the past year, has moved from mildly annoying to outright ridiculous: the proliferation of useless bollards on area trails. \u00c2\u00a0If Arlington County had merely been slow in removing what are obviously pretty useless obstacles, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;d be terribly moved by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}