[Greenbuilding] suggestions for outdoor wall?

[Robert W. Tom]

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:56:32 -0400, Kat <molasses at speakeasy.net> wrote:

>  Perhaps here in Murrica we have stupid kids who like to run in front of  
> cars.

That was my first assumption (but without the "stupid" part) in my initial  
posting,hence the (tongue-in-cheek) suggestion re: a high-voltage electric  
cattle fence until the greenery in a living wall took hold but Don  
responded saying that it was indeed a matter of keeping cars out as well.

Coincidentally, while glancing over the local newspaper after a late  
lunch, the first thing I saw was the following:

"...Van crashes through bus stop...  10 children injured "


from:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=f25c3877-512a-4640-a25d-91b7aff15b52&k=15999


At first I thought it was a local story and that I was going to have to  
eat my smug words about the relative civility of Canadian motorists but as  
it turns out, it happened in ... Murrica.

All right then.

Bollards or boulders it is  (interspersed in the shrubbery ... with  
electric cattle fence strung bewteen. Of course.)

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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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