An employee wearing high-visibility clothes with red and white stripes, yellow rubber boots and a hard hat is on duty throughout the city. He sits on a small, striped vehicle equipped with six off-road tyres, inspection lights, flashing warning lights and a parasol. The vehicle slowly moves backwards along the curb, and the employee keeps a watchful eye out – and soon he passes a group of bollards with red and white stripes that look as if they have recently been cuddled by a sports car. He adjusts his inspection light, measures the distance between the red and white stripes, notes their condition, and reaches for his brushes and cleaning supplies. Then he notices that the carefully concreted and equally carefully knocked over steel pipe no longer has all its stripes on the shaft. He takes a paint bucket of traffic red RAL 3020 out of his red and white striped bag. With a thick brush, he splatters on the missing stripes. To be on the safe side, he adds another one, the red paint running down the bent post in long drips. This is about safety. About attention. And, as we know, attention increases in proportion to the number of stripes on the warning device. In other words, every stripe saves lives here. And stripes with drips are even more noticeable than those without.
