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What niche subject do you know a lot about? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by emokidforever to c/asklemmy

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the reason to not just have the pole permanently attached on top, instead of retracting?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly I can't give you a proper answer here. I never actually thought about it before so I just looked up the Slovenian law about it (I don't speak German so I didn't bother with the Austrian one) and I couldn't find anything that specifically says that the snow poles must/can't be there between XY dates (just a bunch of stuff about how they gotta be positioned). If I had to guess it is a mix of these things:

Aesthetics
Visibility
Giving the road workers something to do
It is how it has always been done. Before these combo bollards became a thing and in places they still haven't replaced the old ones they still add/remove a full on wooden snow pole next to the bollards every year.

There might be some other reasoning for it too, but this is what comes to mind as possible options.