You may have seen rubber barriers pop up on your street and wondered what are they there for?
Well, those are road islands that protect parked cars in on-street parking zones. They are a form of curbing that are visual cues for people to recognize parking spaces that may otherwise not be clearly visible.
“There’s been some history of accidents with parked cars, so the purpose of these curb islands is to really protect those people that want to use on -street parking.” said Philip LaBrash, a Fort Wayne traffic engineer…