How much does a road sign cost?
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Rather than sacking hundreds of staff stop putting f
king needless signs EVERYWHERE!
On a 15 mile stretch of A-road, through the Oxfordshire & Northamptonshire countryside and through sleepy villages are sited 305 signs telling you "stuff". Normally the speed limit, before changing the limit every few hundred yards.
This very interesting statistic excludes signs for opposite way of travel, speed cameras and flashing slow down signs.
Can you beat a peaceful A-road with more than 20.3 SPM?
I was tired, bored and stuck behind a lorry
king needless signs EVERYWHERE!On a 15 mile stretch of A-road, through the Oxfordshire & Northamptonshire countryside and through sleepy villages are sited 305 signs telling you "stuff". Normally the speed limit, before changing the limit every few hundred yards.
This very interesting statistic excludes signs for opposite way of travel, speed cameras and flashing slow down signs.
Can you beat a peaceful A-road with more than 20.3 SPM?
I was tired, bored and stuck behind a lorry
5678 said:
SWMBO used to work in highways construction...
The physical sign around £60-100.
By the time it's actually sat there in the ground (men to fit it, concrete etc, around £500.
So at £500 per sign, how much has this lot cost us?The physical sign around £60-100.
By the time it's actually sat there in the ground (men to fit it, concrete etc, around £500.
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/indepth/dls/
1 pair per 500m, that's 4 per km. The A1(M) between Newcastle and Scotch Corner is 35 miles = 56km
4 x £500 x 56 = £112,000 Bargain!
Edited by GuinnessMK on Sunday 14th November 08:13
McSam said:
thinfourth2 said:
The cash isn't the highest cost.
The highest cost is when a biker uses the road sign to stop himself sliding the nice soft grass
Only if it's never found out who knocked the sign over, because you have to pay for the buggers when you hit them.The highest cost is when a biker uses the road sign to stop himself sliding the nice soft grass
petrolsniffer said:
The ones that annoy me are the patronising ITS 50 FOR A REASON.
Oh the irony if someone crashed into one at 50...
Yep, usually on a wide, open, country A road, with scores of reminder signs, as the 'reason' isn't acutally clear to anyone who drove the road when it used to be NSL.Oh the irony if someone crashed into one at 50...
My favourite are the signs which tell you what the speed limit will change to in 300, 200 and 100 yards. I don't care!. I'm quite capable of finding out when I get there!
The cost must have gone up considerably because when I was 18 I halved a speed limit sign on my way to an accident (forward-rolled my brown A-reg mini into a ditch at 2am on a sunday morning) and I got a bill in from the local council for the repair of "street furniture" for £160.
Mind you, that was nearly 21 years ago.
<dons the "ah, things were much cheaper when I were a lad" cap>
Mind you, that was nearly 21 years ago.
<dons the "ah, things were much cheaper when I were a lad" cap>
GuinnessMK said:
5678 said:
SWMBO used to work in highways construction...
The physical sign around £60-100.
By the time it's actually sat there in the ground (men to fit it, concrete etc, around £500.
So at £500 per sign, how much has this lot cost us?The physical sign around £60-100.
By the time it's actually sat there in the ground (men to fit it, concrete etc, around £500.
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/indepth/dls/
1 pair per 500m, that's 4 per km. The A1(M) between Newcastle and Scotch Corner is 35 miles = 56km
4 x £500 x 56 = £112,000 Bargain!
Edited by GuinnessMK on Sunday 14th November 08:13
From that site..
that site said:
The mileage (in kilometres) from the notional start point of the road
Which complete boneheaded decided to put it in kilometres? I mean, seriously?!Edited by Fox- on Sunday 14th November 18:25
About twenty years ago a Cardiff Council pickup truck arrived outside my mate's house, three guys got out, dug a hole in the pavement and fitted a ten foot high signpost in it.
It's still there now, there's no sign on it, just a post, although Pete's son (who's actually three years YOUNGER than the post) pointed out to me the other day that they turned up recently and concreted around the bottom of it.
So when they tell me that they'll be switching to monthly bin collections this "signpost" may well come up in the ensuing complaint.
It's still there now, there's no sign on it, just a post, although Pete's son (who's actually three years YOUNGER than the post) pointed out to me the other day that they turned up recently and concreted around the bottom of it.
So when they tell me that they'll be switching to monthly bin collections this "signpost" may well come up in the ensuing complaint.
Mound Dawg said:
About twenty years ago a Cardiff Council pickup truck arrived outside my mate's house, three guys got out, dug a hole in the pavement and fitted a ten foot high signpost in it.
It's still there now, there's no sign on it, just a post, although Pete's son (who's actually three years YOUNGER than the post) pointed out to me the other day that they turned up recently and concreted around the bottom of it.
So when they tell me that they'll be switching to monthly bin collections this "signpost" may well come up in the ensuing complaint.
My local council decided that the giveway / crossroads near me was holding up the buses as they went straight over. So they dug it up, installed a 4 way set of traffic lights instead. They then replaced all the bus stop posts with new brushed stainless steel posts.It's still there now, there's no sign on it, just a post, although Pete's son (who's actually three years YOUNGER than the post) pointed out to me the other day that they turned up recently and concreted around the bottom of it.
So when they tell me that they'll be switching to monthly bin collections this "signpost" may well come up in the ensuing complaint.
2 months later, they changed the bus route so the bus now had to make a right turn across the junction, and no longer went down the street with all the shiney stainless posts.
And you wonder how they intend to save money?
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