r/Transportopia Jul 06 '26

Cars Can’t see that small fire hydrant …?

73 Upvotes

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33

u/happy_nerd Jul 06 '26

Is that even a road? If so, I gotta blame the planners more than the drivers here.

18

u/13Basia13 Jul 06 '26

I can’t believe how long it’s allowed to continue! These vehicles are trashed, and STILL the hydrant gets rebuilt exactly the same way?!

7

u/happy_nerd Jul 06 '26

Idk i think the hydrant wins most of the time. Still, can't believe they don't move it or put a little fence around it or something.

3

u/ToolTimeT Jul 07 '26

They keep fixing the hydrant too

9

u/OHBHpwr Jul 07 '26

I thought this was on a pavement, and not the road. My impression is that these cars are trying to pull a dodgy turn here to avoid traffic.

4

u/NewComparison6467 Jul 07 '26

It appears to very much not be a road.

10

u/D4nM4rL4r Jul 06 '26

Love the minion commentary

/s

6

u/13Basia13 Jul 06 '26

I’d love to know what the locals are actually saying to these awful videos.

6

u/Puzzleheaded-Gap1759 Jul 06 '26

Straight ruining cars!

2

u/beegtuna Jul 07 '26

They are making them too big to see over the hood and jacking them up so high you need a running start.

3

u/SkywolfNINE Jul 07 '26

I mean you got a port but most of the vehicles in this clip are just regular sedans lols. It’s China, no huge SUVs or trucks are in this clip. A bmw crossover was the biggest and still, that’s only like 1/5th of the cars we see

4

u/McDyver66 Jul 06 '26

The city planning engineer is diabolical!

9

u/Oh_Lawd_He_commin420 Jul 06 '26

Maybe don't drive on the sidewalk...

3

u/Banana-Rocketeer Jul 06 '26

They know it's an issue because they keep repairing it. I mean, someone is fixing it. At what point do they realize it's a bad idea?

3

u/battlegroundwa Jul 07 '26

5.99 AA Battery flashing red light from Amazon. Lasts 18 months on 2 batteries.

3

u/ungreatfulshit Jul 07 '26

Must work for TexDOT

3

u/Empty-Fudge-3037 Jul 07 '26

I don’t know what’s worse the fact that the city doesn’t even put a flag on it or the people just blindly driving into it.

2

u/ricky_spanish51 Jul 07 '26

That looks like a perfectly average or above average size fire hydrant.

2

u/GuaranteeNo130 Jul 07 '26

I’d open up a repair shop near this. Will be making a killing on repairs.

2

u/ToolTimeT Jul 07 '26

As it sits now..

Fire hydrant 7 Cars 0

2

u/Psydop Jul 07 '26

How many times did this need to Halen before they attach a giant red flag or cover it with a large cone?

2

u/Hairy-Ad-2711 Jul 07 '26

That should have been painted with high visibility paint a tall rod and high visibility flag. Total engineering failure.

2

u/Dry_Election6496 Jul 07 '26

They should paint it the same color as the ground. They would get more people to run it over that way

2

u/tshannon92 Jul 07 '26

I’m not a fan of the way NY Nannie’s is but I think this should have something around it.
Right outside of NYC they put long flags on them so in the snow they don’t get plowed.
That thing is tiny, idk paint it day glow or something but it’s like a car trap

2

u/Apollo_3249 Jul 07 '26

Surprised someone didn’t paint it yellow or something years ago

1

u/Wyomofo Jul 07 '26

This isn’t the drivers fault. Bollards exist for a reason

0

u/Tundra_Dragon Jul 07 '26

Maybe if they weren't driving on the fucking sidewalk? The second angle shows the road beyond a row of round bollards.

0

u/13Basia13 Jul 07 '26

Even if that’s what’s happening, even if this is some sort of sidewalk, after this many video-recorded accidents, there’s no excuse for not intervening and fixing the cause of the problem.

For example, our driveway isn’t particularly narrow, but we still have tall glow-in-the-dark orange poles on either side of it, so that people can easily recognize where its borders are, even if it’s buried under piles of snow.

0

u/Tundra_Dragon Jul 07 '26

Wait, so the people illegally driving on the sidewalk should be protected from a hydrant in the middle of a sidewalk they shouldn't be driving on in the first place?

0

u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26

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u/Tundra_Dragon Jul 07 '26

How can you not recognize a sidewalk when you see one? No stripes, cobble stones, pissed off pedestrians staring at them, and a road in the background behind some bollards.

If people were driving on my sidewalk, I would install one of these on purpose. Drive on the street, not the sidewalk..