Council stupidity

[r6blacky]

Just spotted this report on the website for our local rag - the County Council painted some parking bays on the road before realising that if bays were occupied on both sides of the road no traffic would get down the middle!

http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/news/local/county-...

Surely there is a process that has to be followed prior to this work being approved

[philthy]

Bristol council have signs up, explaining how they are saving thousands, and tonnes of CO2. Some of them are lit by solar powered lights, all nice and green.
The signs are right in the middle of several roundabouts festooned with traffic lights, that appear to be designed to deliberately stop traffic?
Turn those off at night, and they will save thousands of pounds, and prevent the hundreds of trucks that use the ring road from spewing diesel fumes every time they have to set off again.

Idiocy ! Complete green bks, and stupidity.

[Debaser]

r6blacky said:

Just spotted this report on the website for our local rag - the County Council painted some parking bays on the road before realising that if bays were occupied on both sides of the road no traffic would get down the middle!

http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/news/local/county-...

Surely there is a process that has to be followed prior to this work being approved

Sadly this doesn't even slightly surprise me.

[Otispunkmeyer]

philthy said:

Bristol council have signs up, explaining how they are saving thousands, and tonnes of CO2. Some of them are lit by solar powered lights, all nice and green.
The signs are right in the middle of several roundabouts festooned with traffic lights, that appear to be designed to deliberately stop traffic?
Turn those off at night, and they will save thousands of pounds, and prevent the hundreds of trucks that use the ring road from spewing diesel fumes every time they have to set off again.

Idiocy ! Complete green bks, and stupidity.

I thought as well.... that even though they put these solar powered ones up, they still normal signs or to build in normal lighting anyway for when the inevitable happens and the solar panel doesn't provide enough juice.

[XDA]

Seems to be the norm for council employee's that work in the roads department!!

[TheTurbonator]

There's some like this in Leeds near Horsforth train station. Marked out parking bays on both sides of the road, of a major every 10 minute bus route. If cars parked either side the bus would have no chance of getting through, fortunately people seem to have the common sense not to park on both sides.

[Face for Radio]

£10 says it was designed using OS tiles, and that the OS tiles say the road is wider than it actually is.

I was a site engineer before becoming a highways designer (and now a site engineer again for many reasons), and I always used to go out and survey the road/footpath and then inputting that to CAD before doing anything. Then I knew for a fact it was accurate.

Most highways designers have never done a survey, or have any interest other than just sitting at their desk, and using google maps and OS tiles.

Consequently, the amount of times that stuff doesn't work on site "...but it works in CAD/AutoTrack!" is astounding.

[Brigand]

It makes you wonder of the type of character that is painting these lines.

Surely they realised the issue before they started to paint them? You'd have thought someone would have phoned the Guvnor and questioned the issue.

[VR6 Turbo]

out side my old flat. they resurfaced the waterfront with granite bricks, looked great. only for the water guys to show up the week after to dig it up then fill the hole with black tarmac.

looked st for the opening thing with the mayor.

VR