http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Plans to end cone tradition on Glasgow's Wellington statue 'to be withdrawn' en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:31:24 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11605#post-132267 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:51:34 +0000 cb 132267@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The cone removal plans have been dropped after a "massive social nedia campaign" (they're referring to this thread, right?)</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24907190">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24907190</a></p> <p>On Twitter Greg Hemphill said, "Cony No Dae That."</p> <p>See what he did there? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11605#post-132262 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:35:52 +0000 kaputnik 132262@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>£65,000 to "save" £10,000 a year is just the sort of daft decisions council accountants come up with to "save money".</p> <p>I also was somewhat amused by the idea that if the plinth is currently a hazard in case anyone falls off that by raising it another 3 feet it becomes less likely to hurt anyone falling off it.</p> <p>Wellington without a cone is like the statue of Thomas Guthrie without a cap of guano. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11605#post-132255 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:05:48 +0000 AKen 132255@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>£100 is a suspiciously round figure. I imagine the real cost is rather different and everything including depreciation on the ladder has been factored in but, if the cooncil man is up a ladder removing cones then he can't be up a ladder fixing someone's lights - which is probably more to the point.</p> <p>Why don't they just glue the cone on? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11605#post-132249 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:33:45 +0000 EddieD 132249@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>People like dressing up statues - we always used to put scarves on James Watt when he was outside HWU on Chambers Street - and I'm not going to say what was done to the nymph fountain on campus. The Gormleys in the WOL were also dressed up, people thought that they looked cold.</p> <p>It does seem an excessive cost for sending someone with a stepladder to retrieve the cone, good old government pricing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11605#post-132248 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:27:28 +0000 wee folding bike 132248@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm more interested in what the council were actually up to while everybody was looking at the cone. </p> <p>It has the appearance of a classic squirrel manoeuvre. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11605#post-132245 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:21:11 +0000 gembo 132245@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They could just leave the cone on as a permanent part of the culture. Even if it presents an image the council doesn't like, the citizens seem to? On lots of postcards, someone always puts it back after it is taken down</p> <p>Technically this would not then save them £10000 as they will still be paying the parks dept salaries, they will just have to cut the grass in the rain more.</p> <p>Are they still breaking Donald dewar's glasses too? </p> <p>I like the cycle back along the canal if wind from west and there has been a prolonged drought to dry out the path </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11605#post-132244 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 07:29:48 +0000 Focus 132244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have little doubt it's all about the risk assessment. But then I'm not even talking about <em>knocking</em> it off, simply hooking inside the top of the cone and <em>lifting</em> it off.</p> <p>Oh, I'm sorry, of course the <em>hook</em> would present some sort of nasty freak impalement injury risk for the worker involved. How stupid of me!</p> <p>Tell you what, I'll do it, with the method I proposed, for £50 plus the cost of a return train fare. In fact, on a nice day I might even do it for the one-way fare and cycle home :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11605#post-132243 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 06:21:31 +0000 custard 132243@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>there's the rub no doubt<br /> 'safely'<br /> I bet knocking the cone off wouldnt pass a risk assessment or whatever they do </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11605#post-132241 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 04:13:07 +0000 Focus 132241@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not cycling-related but it does give an example of why councils are strapped for cash.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24907190">Plans to end cone tradition on Glasgow's Wellington statue 'to be withdrawn'</a></p> <p>"<em>The council had said that raising the height would end a practice which projected a "depressing image" of Glasgow and would save the £10,000 cost of removing the cone 100 times a year.</em>[i]</p> <p>So, it costs £100 to remove a cone? £100! A long pole with a hook on it would do the job, and yet Glasgow council needs to spend £100 to do what? Send a team of people to erect barriers and guard the site? What on earth is costing so much for a job one person with a big stick could easily and safely do? </p>