Figlen

My apologies if this is not the place for this message but I am quite new to this issue and trying to get a handle on where exactly it stands at the moment.

If people could just let me know whether the points listed below represent a reasonable representation of where this stands at the moment, I would be extemely grateful.

-JCD may be starting to build the bike stands this month

-a few of the metropanels have been removed or moved due to safety concerns (but nowhere near the number that had been flagged as dangerous)

-none of the existing 48 panel billboards that were supposed to have been removed as part of the deal have been removed

-safety concerns about the placement of backlit, moving advertising in the sightlines of drivers have not been effectively addressed.

-wayfinding systems and toilets that were to be part of the deal have been dropped

-original proposed numbers of bicycles has been reduced, as have the number of metropoles/metropanels

-safety issues of metropanels being unsafe for blind pedestrians have not been addressed

-the contract that DCC have with JCD is still under wraps, so we still don’t really know what DCC stands to get from it.

-the localised cityscape that features at the bottom of the metropanels seems to be the same for all of them (dome + some other blocky buildings)

-concerns that some people have about the over-saturation of advertising in public spaces have not been addressed

By the way, I am not a journalist!