What's the Question?

TAoN No 145: Interrogating the everyday, every day. Plus a new Missing Word, and more.

Recently, this randomly encountered sign caught my attention. As I wrote in a subscriber post the other day:

Specifically, it made me chuckle: What exactly had led to the need for such a sign? Were drivers smashing into the bollards? How often? Aren’t bollards themselves cautionary objects? So isn’t this like a sign saying “Caution: Warning Sign Ahead”?…