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          1 year ago

          Honestly I can’t give you a proper answer here. I never actually thought about it before so I just looked up the Slovenian law about it (I don’t speak German so I didn’t bother with the Austrian one) and I couldn’t find anything that specifically says that the snow poles must/can’t be there between XY dates (just a bunch of stuff about how they gotta be positioned). If I had to guess it is a mix of these things:

          • Aesthetics
          • Visibility
          • Giving the road workers something to do
          • It is how it has always been done. Before these combo bollards became a thing and in places they still haven’t replaced the old ones they still add/remove a full on wooden snow pole next to the bollards every year.

          There might be some other reasoning for it too, but this is what comes to mind as possible options.