A supplier quotes better when it knows the size, the finish, how many posts and what they stand in. Say it once in a request for plastic bollards in Johannesburg and we pass it to traffic safety and bollard suppliers working in Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Plastic and Flexible Bollards in Johannesburg
Looking for plastic or flexible bollards in Johannesburg? Say the number of posts, the height and colour, the surface they bolt to and whether you need lane separator kerbs. Traffic safety suppliers and installers around Johannesburg can then quote.
Want to know more first? Our plastic bollards guide covers the options, what to ask for and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Johannesburg
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.
Johannesburg: the properties, the ground and the installers
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.
Typical plastic bollards requests in the area come from:
- Shops, malls and petrol stations: drive-through lanes, parcel collection bays and car park islands
- Municipalities and public spaces: separating cycle lanes, taxi lanes and painted traffic islands
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: splitting visitor and resident lanes at the gate and marking speed calming islands
Local tips for Johannesburg
Asked for most in Johannesburg: sidewalk and taxi rank bollards, ram raid posts for shops, complex boom gates. Where the installers and yards are: city Deep, Industria, Denver and Wynberg, with yards along the M1 and N12. A useful tip: ask who arranges the wayleave and the service scan before sidewalk work starts.
Plastic and Flexible Bollards usually suit parking garages, lane splits, islands. The fixing: bolted to concrete or tar on a base. For shops, malls and petrol stations, the biggest group here, that usually means drive-through lanes, parcel collection bays and car park islands. On the ground and weather: summer storms and hail from October to March; rocky ridges in the north and west.
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 supplier work out the job, the footings and the delivery before quoting.