please empty your brain below
The signs - what also annoys me about such signs is the "for 58 weeks", requiring you to be distracted from your driving responsibilities to do the mental arithmetic to work out when the closure will end (21st March next year). It will be doubly confusing if that sign is still there early next year - if you drive past in late January you will assume the work hasn't started yet.
Almost as good as this one.
"Cyclists Caution: Signage in Cycleway"
These days it is just a case of "fighting fires" and responding to the numerous complaints received every day from local residents and business people, Council bosses actually want to enlist the general public to act as unpaid inspectors and encourage us all to get involved,
and I for one now find that I spend my time doing a job for free when I used to get paid to do it, I have over the past week reported two leaking water valve boxes, two overflowing litter bins, one lamp column out of light and a fly tip.
I imagine its the same with all other companies such as the Post Office, London Buses TFL etc, but I agree with DG that that is no excuse for some of the plain stupid actions that he has highlighted.
HIGH STREET, E15 ROUTE 25: Buses are diverted via Bow Flyover in both directions until 1700 Friday, 28 August.
I wonder?
Much more of the black bit should be underground - as shown by the staining of the original level. It looks to me like they've only put the prongs in, rather than any of the solid base (it always amazes me how much of a pillar box there is underground).
And they could have given it a coat of paint!
The one time this weren't quickly resolved I found that a request for more background information so I could take it up at the local councillor's surgery worked wonders. It resolved a problem with branches blocking a street light in a dark alleyway in two days that I had tried for six months previously to get sorted.
Often the reporting is available online. It would be nice if they sent back an email saying when they had fixed something - ideally with a small photo, if appropriate, to prove it.
And now we've got a sign diverting the number 25 bus back round the roundabout this weekend and next, due to roadworks on the flyover.
Re postboxes: the postbox across the road from my house was taken away last month (low use) and the nearest one is now a 15-minute walk away, at my sedate pace. I’d make a guess that, in the suburbs particularly, it’s the older people who make most use of a postbox. They’re also the people most prone to physical infirmity, and the removal of a handy postbox can be a real blow for some and not just a minor inconvenience. It’s a universal problem as mail volumes drop.
I recently heard of, or read about, a 16-year-old lad who had to send something official by post. His mother gave him an envelope and a stamp and he stared blankly at them and said, “What am I supposed to do with these?”
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