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#1 Posted : Sunday, 4 September 2011 9:43:11 AM(UTC)
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Can anyone remember when silent coppers were removed from intersections?

For those that dont know, or are too young to remember, these were painted yellow and made of hard metal, approx 1-2 feet in diameter, had a raised height and attached with bolts into the road. They were placed at T-intersections to stop people taking shortcuts.

If you hit one, you would have known about it.
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#2 Posted : Sunday, 4 September 2011 5:27:29 PM(UTC)
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I hadnt even noticed they had gone!
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#3 Posted : Sunday, 4 September 2011 9:13:45 PM(UTC)
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I remember them as a kid in the 70s, they were gone by 1982.

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#4 Posted : Sunday, 4 September 2011 10:02:37 PM(UTC)
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They were still around in Dubbo in the 90's Im sure....memory can be out by a decade or so sometimes though.We still had strainer post guide posts here until about 15 years ago, the ones that wrote your car off if you ran into them.

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#5 Posted : Sunday, 4 September 2011 10:16:27 PM(UTC)
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I remember them also. I had always known them as silent coppers, but was that the proper name for them?
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#6 Posted : Monday, 5 September 2011 12:33:59 AM(UTC)
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I believe they were called silent policemen.

Copper is not stricly PC, is it?

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#7 Posted : Monday, 5 September 2011 3:21:29 AM(UTC)
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still have them in port macquarie nsw, i drive past one on the way to and from work
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#8 Posted : Monday, 5 September 2011 4:28:03 AM(UTC)
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Albury lost it's one & only one back in 05.
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#9 Posted : Monday, 5 September 2011 7:20:22 AM(UTC)
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I didn't start (legally) driving until the early 90s, and there were still a lot of them around then - even in the Sydney metro area.

I still come across the odd one in older areas of Sydney with wide streets, and they are still around in country areas too.

We actually talked about this at lunch the other day at work. One suggestion was the liability factor - if some idiot hit one & lost control, today's litigatious society would see them suing council or the RTA at the drop of a hat - especially when you get these bloodsucking lawyers advertising no-win no-fee all over the radio on a daily basis.
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#10 Posted : Monday, 5 September 2011 7:18:28 PM(UTC)
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We've got one on our corner. In suburban Sydney.
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#11 Posted : Monday, 5 September 2011 9:08:08 PM(UTC)
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Thanks for your responses guys.

Holdenute - can u please advise me by PM where you are located? I would like to take a photograph.
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#12 Posted : Tuesday, 6 September 2011 3:39:53 AM(UTC)
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Holdenute, I think I would be investigating if maybe it is kinda "loose". If it is I would be kinda taking it home and forgetting it was there for about thirty or forty years, then looking at what it maybe worth.
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#13 Posted : Tuesday, 6 September 2011 5:29:57 AM(UTC)
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Dr Terry, In England does'nt PC mean Police Constable, well strictly..lol...Jack
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#14 Posted : Tuesday, 6 September 2011 8:47:47 PM(UTC)
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Keith, it's very solid, as can be proven by the black tyre marks all over it.

tranx, no PM's on this board, but it's in the southern end of Kissing Point Road, South Turramurra.
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#15 Posted : Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:02:56 PM(UTC)
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Dr Terry, In England does'nt PC mean Police Constable, well strictly..lol...Jack
Good comeback, but I meant PC as in 'politically correct'.

My believe is that they have been superseded by the more modern roundabout & short median strip design, which in our suburb are in plague proportions.

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#16 Posted : Wednesday, 7 September 2011 10:51:16 AM(UTC)
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Yeh I knew what you meant Dr Terry just you didnt realise what you had wrote...lol....Jack
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#17 Posted : Friday, 9 September 2011 6:20:45 PM(UTC)
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I live on Sydneys Northern beaches and in the 2 kilometres I drive to drop my wife off at work, I drive past four of these. I have argued about these before as i have been told by motorcyclists that silent coppers no longer exist in NSW.

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#18 Posted : Friday, 9 September 2011 8:32:26 PM(UTC)
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ive tryed looking these up on google and cant find a picture that sounds like what it looks like
can someone please put a picture up please?
im very interested to see what it looks like
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#19 Posted : Friday, 9 September 2011 8:42:11 PM(UTC)
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evan a link on google maps street view
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#20 Posted : Friday, 9 September 2011 9:50:24 PM(UTC)
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Here you go - one I found on the net

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Years ago here in Canberra there was another version which was smaller in diameter than the steel one in the pic but was made of concrete and was a more uniform smooth dome shape.

In those days they used to put double yellow lines in the centre of the road, in each 'leg' of significant 'T' intersections. They would affix the silent cops to the road at the end of the double yellow line. So generally there were 3 at all significant 'T' intersections. They used to paint the silent cops yellow the same as the lines.

As Tranx said, the idea was that when making a turn, you were supposed to do so without cutting across the double yellow line and without hitting the silent cop. I remember that you would fail your licence test here if you did either of these things.

Older guys like me will remember when, in Melbourne at least, all the big intersections in the CBD were controlled by Police Officers at peak times. My father told me years ago that as he understood it, these traffic furniture items became known as silent cops because they did the same job as the live Police but without the whistle.
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