Traffic Cones Invade VOSA

This is the side of the VOSA building viewed from the Bristol to Bath cycle track. As you can see some sinister Traffic Cones have taken up defensive positions along the wall. Does this mean that the Cones are now controlling VOSA? Are the civil servants collaborating with the Cones quest for world domination?

Perhaps it isn't the mandarins at VOSA who are collecting bicycles at all, but the evil cones!