Council waste on signposts - CM
As my council tax is ever increasing (29% this year) I always get annoyed by council's wasting money.

The latest that I haveseen that I think is a ridiculous waste of money is a sign for a bus lane in the street next to mine.

There are two 7 foot width restrictions with a painted bus lane in between, which has a bollard the rises and falls. The bus lane must only be 30ft in total but yet 2 great big signs have been erected saying that it is a 24 hour bus lane (not that the bollard would stop you driving through!!).

I am not sure how much it costs to make and erect signs but to me this is just a plain waste of money for something that is so obvious.

Does anyone else have examples of councils wasting money on road signage
Council waste on signposts - Clanger
Richmondshire district council have erected a traffic calming island on a nearby road at a rumoured cost of £65K. It's an island with illuminated keep left and keep right signs and a cobbled surface. They had cones and traffic lights out for weeks while they built it apparently one cobble at a time. It's unnecessary and an eysore.

Now, get this, after a few months operation, the island is to be removed at goodness knows what cost to the council tax payers among us.

I despair.
H.
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Stranger in a strange land
Council waste on signposts - CM
Not so much a waste on signage but more on my local council of Hammersmith & Fulham spending £1m on putting in a bus lane which covers about 1-1.5 miles (which at present has no bus route).

They need to move all the gas pipelines due to the road being too weak for the expected increase in traffic.

There has been about 500-1000 appartments built so I suppose that this is why they feel the need for a bus route (although I am a little sceptical that the people who are to buy these flats are going to swap their Audi's for the bus).
Council waste on signposts - Thommo
Was it not Hammermith & Fulham who lost millions on share hedge trades and then when the bill came in refuse to pay on the grounds that they had no power to do what they did AND they won in court and the banks had to bear the losses?

Sorry, non-car, just an example of council madness.
Council waste on signposts - DavidHM
No, Islington.

As I live near H&F I'd be interested to know where the new bus route is going.
Council waste on signposts - NitroBurner
Makes you want to scream doesn't it?
Come the day of reckoning & all the imbeciles responsible for wasting public money will be at the front of the queue...
Council waste on signposts - PhilW
Ignoring the local roundabout that has over 20 traffic light posts (for cars, pedestrians and cyclists) and the thousands of cycle path signs (presumeably used 99% by locals who know their way) and the cycle paths that suddenly come to an end on the narrowest and most dangerous stretches of road, we have a bus lane (with all the signs and road markings)on a by-pass which avoids 3 local villages. Strange really since the buses all go through the villages and no bus route goes along the by-pass. Needless to say, it causes great queues at rush hour but it hasn't yet dawned on our traffic experts that it is a complete waste of money.
Council waste on signposts - Pugugly {P}
My LA has just spent a fortune on cycle paths. What defeats me for the very few bikes I see on (the roadside) path I see about three on the parallel road...
Council waste on signposts - James_Jameson
Our council recently wasted nearly £100,000 on an abortive scheme to close a road nearby.

The original reason for the closure, with keycard-operated rising bollards for emergency services, was to stop the road being used as a rat-run.

This is a public road that has (and still is) been paid for many times over by the motorist. However, after much protest, because of the traffic congestion created (surprise surprise), the scheme was scrapped.

£100,000 of taxpayer's money down the drain. Any accountability? There doesn't seem to be any.
Council waste on signposts - Rob the Bus {P}
It never ceases to amaze me that a councillor can sit on a highways committee and yet have no knowledge of driving, or motoring law, or not even be required to hold a driving licence. These people (with a few honourable exceptions, in my experience) dicate the misery that us motorists have to put up with with no thought, beforehand or afterwards and it annoys the steaming doodah out of me!

Cheers

Rob
Council waste on signposts - Rob the Bus {P}
And whilst we are on the subject of stupid bus lanes, there is one in Woolwich which actually causes me a huge inconvenience. A one-way road meets a major road (Shooter's Hill, just before the Ha Ha Road lights - why the heck is it called Ha Ha Road????) At the top of this road, the traffic is segregated. On the nearside is a bus lane, on the offside is 'normal' traffic. Both of these lanes are attempting to turn left. And every single bus that exits this bus lane then has to turn right at the lights ahead. So I have to not only give way to the traffic that is turning left out of the one way road at the same time as me (it is to my right after all) but I then also have to force my way across a lane of traffic to turn right.

Sigh.

Rob
Council waste on signposts - NitroBurner
CM:

They just haven't a clue have they?
I believe that , eventually, everybody is accountable for their actions, & they'll all pay the price.
Just glad I'm not a road planner...
Council waste on signposts - teabelly
Can't anyone just become a councillor? Stick yourself up for election and use that as your vote winner. If you get in then you can do something about what irks you. They only do what they do because they get in at the next election and most people don't bother to vote anyway.

Mine has just resurfaced the road this morning (in less than a few hours). Shame everywhere is now being pebbled dashed with loose chippings but it does look a lot better. There aren't many bus lanes if any within the borough and traffic congestion isn't that terrible. In nearby stoke there are but the lanes allow buses to do shortcuts and cross over the middle of the one way system rather than having to go all the way round which I think is a much better way of doing things. The only real bottle neck is the route into the town centre which can be backed up. But traffic lights have been stuck on the large roundabout where the A500 goes across and the traffic jams have pretty much disappeared as everyone can get on and off the roundabout without much bother. I suspect it is only snarled up during rush hour but it used to be snarled up most of the day so I think it has improved things.
teabelly
Council waste on signposts - novicejon
Our council recently wasted nearly £100,000 on an abortive scheme to
close a road nearby.
The original reason for the closure, with keycard-operated rising bollards for
emergency services, was to stop the road being used as a
rat-run.
This is a public road that has (and still is) been
paid for many times over by the motorist. However, after much
protest, because of the traffic congestion created (surprise surprise), the scheme
was scrapped.
£100,000 of taxpayer's money down the drain. Any accountability? There doesn't
seem to be any.

James, This wouldn't be in Dorking by any chance would it because it sounds remarkably like a recent waste of money by our local council.
Council waste on signposts - Jonathan {p}
Makes you want to scream doesn't it?
Come the day of reckoning & all the imbeciles responsible for
wasting public money will be at the front of the queue...


Do you mean the imbeciles which you voted into power?

Because it most likely isn't the officers who have to deal with all the rubbish from councillors and the public.