Resident claims "at least 100 cars" have blown their tyres on kerb separating cycle lane from road

If 100 cars have really blown their tyres and that's not exaggeration, then it suggests the kerb has been placed on the desire line, which (a) in turn suggests that if it were not there, drivers would be drifting into the cycle lane but (b) does make you wonder if the design needs reworking. No, it shouldn't be hard to avoid a kerb, but poor design may be a factor. Compare e.g. tram lines in Edinburgh - people know they are there, but they still found them difficult to navigate.    

Going by the anonomous complainer numbers he uses equates to 4 idiots not just driving over the kerb but doing so in such a way that they blow their tyres, how awful are Cambridge's motorists? 

"In the dark it's completely camouflaged. It's a black kerb on black tarmac. That's why drivers keep hitting it."

Well the one in the pictures has white/light grey curbs with white delineators painted on the road leading up to it. If that's the one then the problem is motorists are ignoring the road markings. They could put a bollard on it but it probably wouldn't last long with the apparent standard of driving.

Of course it could be another curb the hyperbolic mystery complainant is referring to that is indeed so black the photographer couldn't even see it in broad daylight.

In the article the complainant who is - of course! -  A. Nonymous says that

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"In the dark it's completely camouflaged. It's a black kerb on black tarmac. That's why drivers keep hitting it."

I wasn't aware that there was a plague of car collisions all across the Western world...   Did something change of which I'm unaware?

Most drivers seem to manage to not run up against kerbs just fine (except when they are intending to drive up a kerb, of course).

Leaving aside the inability of drivers to be aware of the road layout, why is it apparently beyond the wit of the road designer to include a few lightweight reflective markers?

"a black kerb on black tarmac"

WTAF?

If they're that concerned then a pot of reflective paint from the local B&Q ought to fix it.

Why do drivers feel they need to drive over a kerb that is meant to be seperating vulnerable cyclists from motor traffic?  From the pictures in CambridgeLive, the kerb is light grey concrete, surrounded by black tarmak, with a red cycle route, and painted white lines leading up to the kerb.  Perhaps the safety of the cyclists could be improved by a massive steel post, covered in Hi Viz, but of course we know that that might not always help.

As above, perhaps the drivers should try and stick to the roads.

Poor bollards.  

Those fluorescent yellow illuminated retroreflective bollard should have made themselves more visible.

https://waronthemotorist.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/new-road-safety-campai...

Drivers see a cycle lane and assume that they should be driving in it, perhaps driving on the road would be a good idea.