http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: Manchester - Recent Posts en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:11:02 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14739#post-187188 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:13:21 +0000 unhurt 187188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I liked this story so much I managed to post it a second time (but seven hours late) - oops/sorry. I think it's a rather nice and novel approach - mostly as it gets the issue of potholes into the press, but also because I am at heart about 12. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14746#post-187186 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:59:06 +0000 unhurt 187186@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>ETA: I swear I looked to see if anyone had already posted this - but somehow my eyes slipped right over the word Manchester, right there in recent topics. I shall slink away in shame now...</em></p> <p>in Manchester. By<br /> <a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/3045488/slicker-city/anonymous-activist-gets-potholes-fixed-by-drawing-giant-penises-around-them">highlighting them with inappropriate graffiti</a>. A novel approach!</p> <p>According to the Manchester Evening News story,<br /> <blockquote>The mystery crusader - a professional artist and surveyor - is highlighting craters in the Tarmac by drawing a (ahem) huge male appendage around them.<br /> [...]<br /> The mystery campaigner, whose works are all completed in non-permanent paint, told the M.E.N: “The roads of Manchester are in an appalling state, especially around Bury. I have cyclist friends who have been hospitalised."</blockquote> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14739#post-187170 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:36:41 +0000 jdanielp 187170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good effort! It would appear that the council aren't spending much money 'fixing' the potholes in any case whilst failing to clean the graffiti based on the last couple of pictures so not convinced by their arguement. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14739#post-187161 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:05:08 +0000 fimm 187161@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I did think this would be a good way of using up my left-over PoP pavement chalk... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14739#post-187153 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:11:47 +0000 dougal 187153@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"Not only is this vandalism, but it’s also counter-productive," the spokesman said. "Every penny that we have to spend cleaning off this graffiti is a penny less that we have to spend on actually repairing the potholes."</em></p> <p>So the money that they aren't spending on cleaning off the graffiti that washes away naturally was previously not being used to fix potholes. Got it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14739#post-187149 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:43:14 +0000 cc 187149@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>An artist has found <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/artist-penis-potholes-wanksy_n_7149810.html">an effective way to get potholes fixed</a>.<br /> (NSFW) </p>