“This is purely criminal. It will eventually kill someone.” The rant is prompted by a cyclist on Twitter on June 15, with the photo of the object of his anger. Of the half-spheres in concrete, the high of a few centimeters, which are used to prevent vehicles parking on the cycle track to Saint-Denis, between Porte de Paris and Pleyel, boulevard Anatole France. According to Le Parisien, several accidents have already been reported.

I broke the jaws(passage to the emergency room but nothing of ibcs finally) taking the cycle track at St Denis. I took the fucking white ball invisible with the wheel avnt.
C purely criminal.It will necessarily kill someone. cc @EnPlaine @VilleSaintDenis pic.twitter.com/wwmOKAJ5tv

— Goumari (@lgoumari) June 15, 2020

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It must be said that these infrastructures, at the initiative of the public establishment, territorial Plaine Commune, are painted in white, on a white line, and can hardly be visible to a cyclist launched at full speed and who is not aware of their presence. “Not only do these balls do not solve the problem of cars parked on the track, but in addition, they are dangerous for cyclists”, in Paris a cyclist is the victim of a mild traumatic brain injury after falling in march last year, when these half-spheres were grey... on the grey concrete.

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The posts are flexible as a solution

“there is a lack of training in general in this sector. It is necessary to remove these terminals, claiming Maxime Gadreau, of the association Paris in the Saddle. The infrastructure that is poorly thought injures the cyclist instead of the protect ! If one wants to prevent the wild parking, it is necessary to make the verbalization.” The recent rant spent on Twitter will have made a difference. The crafty first decided to give it a shot of spray paint red on half-spheres, to make them more visible.

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Contacted by The Paris, Plaine Commune has also heard the complaints. While promising to consult with cyclists for this kind of initiative in the future, the public institution has announced that posts flexible strip neon would be installed in the coming weeks, in order to better report on these half-spheres. It is hoped that this will be sufficient to avoid accidents.