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Bollards in Johannesburg
Need bollards in Johannesburg? Say what you want to protect, the length of the line, the ground or slab and whether the posts must stop a car or just guide it. Independent suppliers and installers around Johannesburg can then quote for the posts, footings and finishing.
Want to know more first? Our bollards guide covers the options, what to ask for and what affects the price.
Johannesburg notes on bollard types
Galvanised and powder coated steel pipe posts are the workhorse on Johannesburg sidewalks, often concrete filled and painted black or charcoal for the CBD and Newtown. Precast domes and squat cylinders suit taxi rank edges and parking lots in Soweto, where a few heavy units are easier to replace after a hit. Stainless steel shows up at office entrances in Rosebank and Parktown, and lit bollards mark complex driveways where street lights fail during load-shedding.
Who protects what in Johannesburg
In Johannesburg the bollard question is usually about the sidewalk. Minibus taxis pulling onto pavements around the CBD ranks, delivery trucks mounting kerbs in Marshalltown and Braamfontein, and cars parked across shop entrances in Soweto and along Louis Botha Avenue all push owners and the city towards rows of posts. Shopping centres and cash handling sites deal with ram raids, while townhouse complexes from Fourways to the south want boom gates and humps. Steel fabricators and precast suppliers sit in City Deep, Industria, Denver and Wynberg, close to the M1, M2 and N12. Under old CBD paving there are cables, fibre and water mains nobody has drawn properly, so ask about a cable locator and a municipal wayleave before anyone breaks ground.
Who asks for bollards around Johannesburg, most often first:
- Shops, malls and petrol stations: a line of posts in front of shopfronts, ATMs and pump islands against reversing cars
- Municipalities and public spaces: closing streets to cars, protecting squares and keeping vehicles off sidewalks
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: posts along visitor parking and walkways so cars stay off the lawns and paths
Local tips for Johannesburg
Common here: sidewalk and taxi rank bollards, ram raid posts for shops, complex boom gates. Ask each installer about this: ask who arranges the wayleave and the service scan before sidewalk work starts. Where they work from: city Deep, Industria, Denver and Wynberg, with yards along the M1 and N12.
Sizes vary: 900 to 1,200 mm high, about 1.2 m clear gap. Here, shops, malls and petrol stations lead the requests, typically for a line of posts in front of shopfronts, ATMs and pump islands against reversing cars. One local point to raise: crane trucks deliver from yards in the south and east; installers cover the whole city.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Our network covers Johannesburg together with Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. The length, the ground and the address help a bollard supplier work out the job, the footings and the delivery before quoting.