American Trails Executive Committee


John Favro, Chair, TrailsGuy, LLC Trails Consulting Jenny Rigby, Vice-Chair, The Acorn Group Marianne Fowler, 2nd Vice-Chair, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Terry Hanson, Treasurer, Terry Hanson Trails Consulting Mike Passo, Executive Director


Directors


Jim Dailey, Flake & Kelley Jan Hancock, Equestrian Representative Marie Walker, The Corps Network Terry Whaley, Ozark Greenways


Advisory Board


Steve Anderson, Pima County (AZ) Parks & Rec. Dept. Peter Axelson, Beneficial Designs, Inc. Roger Bell, Trails Consultant Nathan Caldwell, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service James Coffman, RLA, ASLA, Coffman Studio John R. Collins, Jr., PhD, University of North Texas Christopher Douwes, Rec. Trails Program Mgr., FHWA Troy Duffin, President, Alpine Trails, Inc. Steve Elkinton, Partnership for the National Trails System Mylon Filkins, DVM, Back Country Horsemen of America Chuck Flink, President/Owner, Greenways Inc. Erik Larsen, President, Rec-Creation, LLC Kay Lloyd, Past Chair, American Trails Board Stuart Macdonald, Editor, American Trails Magazine Roger Moore, Associate Professor, NC State University Gil Penalosa, 8-80 Cities Deb Salt, Bureau of Land Management Rodger Schmitt, Retired, Bureau of Land Management Michael Schuett, Assistant Professor, Texas A & M Bob Searns, The Greenway Team, Inc. Jaime Schmidt, Trails Program Mgr., U.S. Forest Service Joe Taylor, Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau Karen Umphress, NOHVCC Jim Wood, FL Department of Transportation


American Trails Magazine


American Trails Magazine (ISSN 1082-8303) is the maga- zine of American Trails, the nonprofit organization dedicat- ed to quality trails and greenways within 15 minutes of every American home, school, and workplace.


Editor: Stuart H. Macdonald


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The bollard: a solution or a problem? Improving security on trails runs into safety concerns


he humble bollard is now a familiar design element of pub- lic spaces from the Federal Building in Honolulu to the White House in our nation’s capital. Some now are urging similar pro- tection for walkways after the truck terrorism in Nice, France and New York City. There is even a bill in Congress, the “Stopping Threats on Pedestrians (STOP) Act,” to create a new grant program at the U.S. Department of Transportation to fund the installation of traffic barriers, including bollards and planters to keep vehicles away from bicycle paths and pedestrian areas. On trails throughout the country, bollards appear at road


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crossings with the intent of discouraging vehicles while allowing trail users to pass. Many of these are just a lonely post that sug- gests a barrier while threatening the unwary biker or hiker in a sensitive spot.


Other passages, like pedestrian and transit malls (downtown


Denver, for instance) are crossed by numerous streets and alleys, not to mention the center lanes for buses. It would take a thicket of bollards to enclose the pedestrian spaces. Trails are all about freedom of movement while bollards are a potentially fatal safety hazard. And is it a fair trade to prevent possible deaths by vehicular terrorism while guaranteeing that joggers and cyclists will be seriously injured by running into unexpected obstacles? We do need to evaluate our most used, and exposed urban trails for safety. But it’s also a good time to look at how we use bollards and barriers as common management tools. We’ll be ask- ing trail designers around the country and abroad how they feel bollards should be used (or not) and whether they can be adapted for preventing terror attacks. We welcome your ideas as well.


— Stuart Macdonald, American Trails Magazine Editor Identification Statement


Publication's title and number: American Trails Magazine (ISSN 1082-8303) Issue date: December 10, 2017 Statement of frequency: Published three times a year Authorized organization's name, address, phone number: American Trails, P.O. Box 491797, Redding, CA 96049-1797 Physical address: 2400 Washington Ave., Suite 400 Redding, CA 96001 - Phone (530) 605-4395 Issue number: Volume 46 Number 3 Subscription price: $30 per year or free with membership


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