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City crews have had to reinstall flexible posts along the south side of Laurier Avenue East twice in the past 10 days because someone keeps removing them.

The posts, which are white with blue stripes and stand about a metre high, were installed two weeks ago to keep vehicles that are turning right onto Nicholas Street from lining up in the east-west bike lane and forcing cyclists to weave into traffic to get around cars.

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But someone — or multiple people — keeps running them over or tearing them off the road and casting them aside on the nearby sidewalk.

“It’s a stupid game because we’re going to put them back up,” said Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury. “I don’t know what it achieves. We’ve made a decision that we want to protect the cyclists on the east-west bikeway, specifically in that zone, with flexi-posts.

“If we need to use a temporary curb or something, we will,” he said.

That stretch of Laurier Avenue is under a lot of pressure these days.