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Anyone who is upset about cars driving on the Hudson River Greenway or has doubts that New York City's bus rapid transit experiment will work without physical barriers to prevent motorists from driving and parking in bus lanes will find profound satisfaction in this video from Manchester, England.

Watch as scofflaw motorists try to sneak into an express bus lane and are impaled on high-tech retractable bollards...

Thanks to David Snetman for the link.

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