EpicChef wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 15:22
I think only essential messages should be painted on roads, where there is a risk to safety if normal signs can’t be seen eg obscured by HGVs
So not this then?
As they say in New Zealand, "Workers Care and NHS You Thank"
All I see there is the biker losing control in the rain whilst trying to avoid the pedestrian using the crossing facility.
Not content with plastering the roads with unlawful NHS rainbows, we now have poppies all over the network in Bolton.
I really want to take a sack of spanners to someone's face because hitting them with the TSM and TSRGD doesn't seem to be hard enough.
Bryn Terminally cynical, unimpressed, and nearly Middle Age already. She said life was like a motorway; dull, grey, and long.
Agreed, while undoubtedly a lovely gesture, it's a distraction to drivers - particularly in this case where it is on the lead up to an uncontrolled crossing.
c2R wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:06
Agreed, while undoubtedly a lovely gesture, it's a distraction to drivers - particularly in this case where it is on the lead up to an uncontrolled crossing.
The road safety implications are bad enough, but the next logical step is the worrisome potential of political slogans being painted on roads, or maybe adverts for supermarkets. Either way, it's just clutter and no matter how well meaning it just should not be there.
Bryn Terminally cynical, unimpressed, and nearly Middle Age already. She said life was like a motorway; dull, grey, and long.
Bryn666 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:49
The road safety implications are bad enough, but the next logical step is the worrisome potential of political slogans being painted on roads, or maybe adverts for supermarkets. Either way, it's just clutter and no matter how well meaning it just should not be there.
If political slogans start to be painted on the road then they will be vandalised. I can see roads being injured in this way....
"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed." - Sylvia Plath
As they say in New Zealand, "Workers Care and NHS You Thank"
All I see there is the biker losing control in the rain whilst trying to avoid the pedestrian using the crossing facility.
Not content with plastering the roads with unlawful NHS rainbows, we now have poppies all over the network in Bolton.
I really want to take a sack of spanners to someone's face because hitting them with the TSM and TSRGD doesn't seem to be hard enough.
They’ve painted poppies on the roundabouts round here, what surprised me was that they were doing the A17/A16 roundabout the day after Remembrance Sunday at 11AM and with zero traffic management, it was 4 blokes with a couple of spray cans & a template presumably legging it across a live roundabout as their van was parked on the outside of it.
It infuriates me. We have veterans living in doorways because the system has ignored them since they came off active service but local authorities are happy to sit back and let their infrastructure be decorated with, to use the culture war phrase, "virtue signalling" about how much everyone cares about veterans.
Bryn Terminally cynical, unimpressed, and nearly Middle Age already. She said life was like a motorway; dull, grey, and long.
FosseWay wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 15:55
There was a brief trial of putting fluorescent and reflective tabards on the cows themselves, often with appropriate messages (either a 40 roundel or the slogan in use at the time: Moove slowly on the Common). Evidently this didn't work or had some disadvantage, as it was not continued. I'm not sure what TSRGD would have to say about speed limit signs that move randomly around the area!