Cycling in Waterloo Region

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It's not a law, but engineering practices, and for good reasons. Engineers do actually care about some aspects of safety. They're incompetent about it, but they do care. For example, engineering practices often require a "clear zone" around roads with no obstructions, so that vehicle occupants are less likely to be killed in a vehicle departing the roadway. Of course, that's a highway engineering standard that engineers wrongly apply in (some) cities. Of course, these same engineers also place pedestrians in this clear zone. After all, a pedestrian is no danger to an out of control driver.

So...for the same reason they wouldn't put a bollard on the island. The bollard could injure or kill a driver or other vehicle occupant.

This is why we have flex posts everywhere by the way.

Fair enough - pedestrians are basically just moist flex posts. Shame about the epidemic of bollard-vehicle collision deaths in Europe by the way.