Orbital Route sign disgrace
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What adds to the annoyance is that theyre in areas nowhere near to the routes – whats the story re Mercer St – 3 there and its not even on one of the routes 😮 😡
Its a little bit like a nasty cheap sci-fi plot gone wrong – Invasion of the bi-pods :rolleyes:
Well I have to agree that was incredibly well done for an RTE news story…traffic noise at a minumum in the background, no interviews in the middle of a dual carriage way, no long lingering shots of the windows of the Four Courts 🙂
Well done to Kevin at An Taisce for getting some media coverage of this because that is the one thing that is gauranteed to get action.
It seems we are in for a blitz on our city’s streets by June….a whole new signage system and the advertisment signage. Still I would like to see a bit of planning and some aesthetic vision applied. There are litterly hundreds if not thousands of inapproriate signs littering the city, not just these H frames. Save out streetscapes DCC!
Alek Smart:
Home Farm Road Drumcondra,recently resurfaced in one of the smoothest and well executed reestablishment jobs in Dublin.
All went well until last week when,better late than never,some contractor or other returned to the fray and dug a trench across the bottom end….after the ritual poking around they performed an ancient druidic ritual (Cant let the Hindu`s have all the fun) and backfulled the trench,topping it off with a few shovels of chippins…Well the “Lads” have gone and the backfilling has followed the laws of Fizzicks and now lies at a level of 25-50mm below the edge of the trench which is felt by each and every Bus Passneger or Motorcyclist as they crash over the thing on the approach to the junction
sometimes you’d think that its another company thats trying to ruin the work of the others so they get all the future contracts…or maybe its some lads with too much time on their hands who dress up like workmen and just hack away at the roads and they know no-ones going to ask them what their doing if it looks remotly official!!i hope thats what is actually happening cause its hard to believe our own council would hate us so much!
Thanks for all the comments on the thread.
BTW there is no and was no new signage to be put on those vacant poles, as the council seem to have told RTE. They’re just leftovers that the CC never bothered removing.
There was also a little piece in the Irish Times on Saturday, and the council have admitted this time that there are no new signs coming for these poles:
USELESS SIGNPOSTS TO ‘BE REMOVED SHORTLY’
Olivia Kelly
Dublin City Council has said it will remove some 180 signposts that have stood in the city centre without any signs attached since the controversial orbital road sign system was scrapped more than four years ago.
Colour-coded traffic signs, which directed motorists around inner and outer routes of the city centre, were erected by the council in August 2002, but were removed soon afterwards on the orders of the then minister for transport S
We’ve been looking at these for no reason since 2003?!
So what’s the likelihood of the poles’ foundations being correctly addressed at each location? Will the red bricks on Parnell Street be reinstated? Will antique granite be sourced for the various parts of Merrion Square that require it? (as some in fairness are sited in concreted areas too). And will concrete slabs be inserted as per surrounding paving at other locations – or is it a splodge of concrete all round?
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Maybe they’ll saw them down and leave little stumps.
Leave them as stumps – just like the intersection of Baggot and Fitzwilliam Streets?
Probably 😡
Well considering its almost EXACTLY twelve months since the gizzard was ripped out of Home Farm Road and only last week was the reinstatement almost completed I won`t be holding my breath on the signposts being attended to before 2010.
What would be far more beneficial would be a little investgative reporting on how much these Poles cost,how much did the attendant signage cost,how much did it cost to erect and display the signs/posts……and finally WHICH company was the beneficiary of the Council`s largesse in firstly the supply and secondly the erecting of the poles…..
Hiiii Ho…..Hiiiii Ho ..it`s off to work we go …to the companies registration office we go …. 😮
No need to go that far! Like all the poles erected in the city (and much of the road works) Sierra is your only man!
I have to say I would wonder if they just erect poles on their own initative (and forward the bill) or does someone have a fetish in City Hall and keep asking for more, more, more….yes, yes, yes……@StephenC wrote:
No need to go that far! Like all the poles erected in the city (and much of the road works) Sierra is your only man!
I have to say I would wonder if they just erect poles on their own initative (and forward the bill) or does someone have a fetish in City Hall and keep asking for more, more, more….yes, yes, yes……😀
My own personal favourite I think has got to be the pedestrian crossing on Leeson Street, right i. Although it is a one-way street (albeit with a bus contra-flow) in the middle of the South Georgian quarter, DCC saw fit to insert 3 double height poles with 6 traffic lights – it just looks sooo beautiful :rolleyes:
I definitely read an article recently saying that they’re coming down soon.
But I bet they won’t get them all.Yes Yes Yes…..Sierra do indeed ERECT the poles……But lets get down to what entity actually manufactures the things and also the signage which is fitted to them….
This investigative journalism is SO thrilling…. 🙂
Also of interest is the impending 5-Axle HGV ban in the Central zone.
As one can imagine this piece of nouvelle leglislation also requires some appropriate signage and that`s exactly what it has received.New aluminium poles,some with H-Frames on top and now the signs as well all add,yet again, to our Urban Pole Forest fixation.
Nobody in DCC apparently bothered to ask if at least some of the Old “Seamus Brennan” Primary Route signposts could be put to use here.
This of course would have been thrifty in the extreme but it would not have been good news for the MANUFACTURERS of Aluminium Poles and Signs…….. 😀
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