https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46235754
...to say they are to be removed for legality is not a good reason, in my view, as my work makes people pay more attention to the signs.
Unfortunately, as Edinburgh Council knows all too well and has already pointed out, in their current state the signs - and thus the restrictions they indicate - are not enforceable, no matter how much attention people pay to them. Which is not really an acceptable state of affairs IMO.
Leaving the "hacked*" signs in place but putting another sign next to each one which is compliant with the regulations would simply leave the door open to fervid Pepipoo-ers to argue that the signage is sufficiently confusing that they didn't know what it meant. (Though they might not get away with it, I doubt it would stop them trying since that's a good part of what they do - push at loopholes to see if they give way and let them through.)
I have no issue with Mr Abraham's stickers being preserved if people believe that to be worthwhile**, but I think a dose of reality may also be required here.
And I can't help noticing that he appears to be more inclined to talk to the media than to respond to CEC's entirely reasonable request to discuss the situation with him.
* At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeonly old git, when did "defacement of public property" become "hacking"?
** Though I have to say I fail to see much artistic or aesthetic value in them myself. They seem no more interesting than those "go fast" stickers that seemed to proliferate suddenly on speed limit signs a few years back.
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