I quite happily regularly shift road signs - happy to see if I'm around at any appointed hoicking time (if I take the blue hi-viz PoP tabards then we look all workman official...)
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Thoughts on the Quality Bike Corridor
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Clarence has just mailed me to say that it's passed my report on to the appropriate team for action. *waits expectantly*
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still there...
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If it's still there at end of today, I've a feeling it will be neatly stacked out of harms way tomorrow morning, with a polite note saying that next time it get's sent back to them in little pieces.
Just a feeling mind.
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Let's put on some polar bear outfits and do it now!
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LIKE
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think it's a 17mm spanner you need for that HERAS fencing..... 17 18 or 19.... or we could tie a rope round it and "tow" it away with the van....... dressed as polar bears of course.
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I have spanners, adjustable spanners, socket set, etc.
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9pm tonight is only an outside chance for me. Tomorrow morning I can do, but if you've enough bods for tonight it'll be great to see the results (whatever I'll be cycling by tomorrow to have a gander).
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There shouldn't be "anything to see". The current problem is that there IS something to see. So if you can't see anything, all is well.
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Following up what was mentioned earlier about Roibeard and I planning on documenting the QBC as is, we'll be striking out on Thursday morn (just in case of photographic overlap by anyone else planning the same), with the aim being to have the whole thing documented that evening. The Trambles Flickr group, for one, will have a wider remit that originally... ;)
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Well I went up MMW about 8:45 and there was a council van there.
Half an hour later it looked like this -
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I'd say that was a success...
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I arrived around a similar time, but there was a cooncil van parked on MMW so we went across the road and chatted for a while. Later on it looked a bit different, but can't say for sure how it happened;
Chap in this photo also didn't know what happened, but said he had complained to council also and had also thought that "something should be done about it", but wasn't sure what.
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Kicking myself for not checking the interwebs before replacing brakes on black fruity. By the time I was done, and settling down to dinner, it was already 8.45.
I'll swing by MMW this morning to admire your handiwork. Good job, folks.
I think it's time we had a cycle infrastructure themed symbol that can be projected by spotlight. Thunder! Thunder! Thundercats hooooooo! Sort of thing.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I'm a happy cc today! Let's hope the path stays open now.
Posted 11 years ago # -
"Quality"!
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Email from the Council Roads Department on the subject of the MMW fences. Said they went along to inspect and couldn't see any in the way!
So I sent a nice email back saying that had photographs of it being there on Tuesday and no longer being there on Wednesday so I assumed someone had acted to remove the obstacle and I trusted that it wouldn't be getting re-erected in the same place.
Also confirmed that these are indeed for putting Fringival posters up on.
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"I trusted that it wouldn't be getting re-erected in the same place."
Well the chalk marks showing the new location seem to have washed away.
If they really are for 'fringe advertising' I wonder who is 'allowed' to use them?
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Well the chalk marks showing the new location seem to have washed away.
If you have contact details for whomever the guerilla fence relocaters are, let them know to use paint next time.Posted 11 years ago # -
"let them know to use paint next time"
Talking of which, I see there is a new (mini) compass at bottom of MMW slope.
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Looks like it's going to be same size as before -
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Signs gone up on MMW I assume for the QBC as they are for King's Buildings. Have a green box with a "6" in it. Where are the other 5 QBCs?
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I only noticed two signs - same pole -
Don't think they will all be Q(?)BCs.
More like 'signed routes' or perhaps part of 'family network'(?)
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There are "To King's Buildings" signs on Argyle Place and then Chalmers Crescent at the top, I assume directing you up to Beaufort Road.
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I came across one in deepest The Grange a day or two ago, possibly on the corner of South Lauder Road and Fountainhall Road, pointing to King's Buildings. So, not the QBC, but pointing towards it. Seems like progress.
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"I came across one"
Exactly.
It's either a highly subtle marketing campaign or a bit pathetic.
At least with the markers for the Sustrans routes chances are you know about the routes - or know where to find details.
'spose we'd better play 'spot the signs'!
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I assumed that they were in the middle of putting up a lot of signs, that they haven't finished yet, and that there'll be some kind of obvious publicity once all the signs are up.
Posted 11 years ago # -
So they build a Quality Bike Corridor, then they put up signs to take you via the back streets of the Grange?
I'm not totally getting this.
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