What do people make of this overhanging [public] building?

The overhead maps view shows how much the building overhangs the road, its actually quite considerable.

Also going back to 2009 it appears there was a gate at that location, it seems that this path exists purely to allow pedestrians get to the open area in front of the building, would have made much more sense to open directly onto that area and leave the road un obstructed.

OP I'd bring a claim, whats the worst that can happen? Especially if someone else has already raised the same concern, same with pot holes, if the council have received a previous complaint then that changes their liability I believe.

Why do we have traffic cones and warning signs so?

the overhang of the building has no bearing on the OP hitting the kerb.

Deflection of blame!

the building is grand. Its the car parked on the right hand side that is the problem. You should be suing the owner of that car

It would appear he is the owner of that car!

The assumption is that the curb exists to protect the overhang.

the kerb exists to protect pedestrians entering the building.

i will say though that whoever painted the double yellow lines needs to go on some sort of remedial course.

So the island is safer than the pedestrian exit/entrance to the public area that it abuts?

People do observe road markings, but people are, not unsurprisingly, not expecting a piece of pavement to appear out of now-where without any warning.

Would you consider it acceptable to have a 1m wide hole in the middle of the road, so long as it has some yellow hatching around it?

Clearly this "island" is an issue as the close up shows evidence of multiple impacts. Its very atypical to have an island such as this without any sort of sign warning or graduated incursion into the roadway, they are not just lumps of concrete dumped into the roadway.

There's a massive difference between a hole in the middle of a traffic lane and an obstruction on the side of the lane.

Personally when I'm driving on a one way road I drive close to centre.

I wouldn't drive hugging a wall, there could be all types of obstructions that you miss until you are on top of them, from rubbish bags, hubcaps , a dead animal etc all things that I don't fancy driving over.

If it was a dark rainy night then I'd be more sympathetic but on a clear sunny day? Nah OP wasn't watching where he was going or his reflexes are shockingly bad that he couldn't brake in time to save the back wheel nevermind the front.

You would hit that island even driving close to the centre, you might notice that the right hand side is parking, so there is no difference. Would you be ok with a hole where the island is?

btw if the curb is unsafe on a dark stormy night then the curb is unsafe, end of.

Its a mix of double yellows and car park spaces, you clean clearly see this in post #77 and google street view (giveaway is the cars parked there, the signs with the parking details and the car parking spaces in white...)

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/K62KGYYL6TOA/streetview-jul-2018.png

not at the point where the kerb is. there is plenty of room to avoid the kerb. it is clearly visible.

Oh would you give over on the hole. Holes by their nature are difficult to see as they are flush with the road.

If it was a ditch and the OP went into it I'd still be saying the same.....you weren't paying attention.

The kerb is a stationary concrete object. The width of the road at that point is wide there's no need to be hugging the wall.

And yeah on a dark stormy night things are more difficult to notice. You will have your wipers going, rain hitting the windscreen more surface water on the road, decrease in visibility etc. So while you adjust your speed accordingly you still may not see everything, which is how accidents happen.

On a clear day it's not an accident but rather carelessness.

if you think that kerb is easy to miss then I think a trip to specsavers is in order.

So why did it initially have not one but two warning posts on it?

I think that's a bad assumption. The overhang is minor, despite OPs claims.

The right side is not parking at the island. If somebody can't see line marks they shouldn't be on the road.

This is a narrow laneway. If they are driving at a suitable speed, it should be easy to see the island and navigate it. Roads change direction all the time. You are making out that the island appeared suddenly.

It's a bad road layout. But OP not negotiating it safely is his fault. If he blew two tyres, he was absolutely going too fast

There are probably thousands of cars who drive down that lane every week and manage to not crash into that kerb and burst 2 tyres

The op should take the chance to learn a valuable life lesson. Slow down, and watch where you're going when you're driving a 2 tonne hunk of steel around narrow town streets.

It doesn't look like the overhand is significantly over the boundary, obviously limited photos to go off. But there is a wall between the building and the road. So if a truck is going hit the overhang, they'd be also crashing into the wall even if the overhang isn't there. So they hit the building either way.

Trucks typically don't drive down laneways for obvious reasons.

Two lanes wide? You might need your eyes tested. It's a single one-way laneway.

Here is the entry. Very narrow.

This is the straight section up to the building. Also narrow with a terrible parking arrangement.

The parking spaces stop at the building as there is and entrance opposite. There is only ever one lane with no parking at that point.

I agree its badly designed. I said so on the first page. It was badly designed before the island. Encouraging the flow of traffic along a dwarf wall is terrible design, especially when they'll be taking a left at the end into a wall they can see. The single park spots are a hazard. They should have lost them, and the island been an usable path. The road is central away from the walls, the whole thing would be safer than current or previous.

But we drive on roads as they are, not how they should be. And if you are driving down a laneway like that, between buildings and parked cars, you pay attention.

Yup you could. But we're not talking about what could hypothetically happen. We're talking about what actually happened. OP drove over kerb, Dukes of Hazard style, as you put it.