PeteMorris Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I regularly drive along Shepcote Lane from the Tinsley roundabout and always wonder what the hell was going through these people's minds when they erected these signs. They are both clearly presented for the benefit of traffic users coming from the Tinsley roundabout, but one obscures the other. So nobody can ever actually 'see' the second one. Or do you know better?....Any other examples? Here's the signs from google street view. I'm not sure when it was took, but the signs were still there this morning! https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4108577,-1.4029938,3a,75y,154.4h,78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdEyRUwKqqRsrNdlsDCNqdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I imagine the closest one will be the newest one, replacing the other one, which hasn't been removed yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteMorris Posted January 13, 2017 Author Share Posted January 13, 2017 (edited) But strangely, the 'front' sign almost always never lit, and only occasionally has anything there to see. Yet the one at the back is always brightly lit and has 'something' on there, although I've never managed to see what, as I'm concentrating mostly on the road, and as you pass, it's visible for much less than one second. EDIT: Oh and it's been like that for at least the last 12 months, as that's how long I've regularly used that stretch of road. Edited January 13, 2017 by PeteMorris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 It'd be great if they were two separate companies having a tiff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteMorris Posted January 13, 2017 Author Share Posted January 13, 2017 It'd be great if they were two separate companies having a tiff. Yes that did occur to me too. Or even if they put a bus shelter up directly in front of it, which obscured both of them! I suppose there must be some sort of explanation of it, but I can't see what it might be, or why! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchemist Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I particularly like the way that they have been positioned to force pedestrians to walk into the road. One of the best examples I've seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I particularly like the way that they have been positioned to force pedestrians to walk into the road. One of the best examples I've seen surely you can squeeze past them on the path? Oo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin-H Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 surely you can squeeze past them on the path? Oo Looks like that would be rather difficult with a wheelchair, or a buggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteMorris Posted January 13, 2017 Author Share Posted January 13, 2017 Looks like that would be rather difficult with a wheelchair, or a buggy. Yes I hadn't considered that...It would be a real squeeze. If you zoom in to the view, there's very little room. Although, I would suggest, it's not a well trodden path for pedestrians I wouldn't have thought, even though it's next to a bus stop. I would have thought it's mainly a thoroughfare used by people going to and from work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Council planning department should have picked up on that one when it was installed. Surely you can't just take up the vast majority of a pavement with an advertising board? Maybe the gap is larger that it looks though?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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