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I came into Bristol on the M32 this morning and to my surprise a workman was not only washing the traffic cones, he gave them a polish with a clean rag. Nice to see someone with pride in their work.
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I came into Bristol on the M32 this morning and to my surprise a workman was not only washing the traffic cones, he gave them a polish with a clean rag.
It's great to see The Powers That Be imparting to the workforce such a fine sense of priorities. My mway trips are frequently blighted by the asthetic trauma induced by unpolished mway cones.
I often want to call the cones hotline, except they abolished that ...
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Wooo Wooo. Before you mock. Cones are reflective. Filthy cones covered in mud and merde are not. Important piece of road safety at work here.
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RF - currently 1 Renault short of a family
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You should not knock somebody for doing their job properly
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Wooo Wooo. Before you mock. Cones are reflective. Filthy cones covered in mud and merde are not. Important piece of road safety at work here.
Then wash em all with a hose before they leave the depot, or even put em all through a big cone-washing machine. Hand-polished cones is a step too far.
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Umm, NoWheels - wouldn't that waste water? ....
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Umm, NoWheels - wouldn't that waste water? ....
They wouldn't need drinking water! Could use lower grade water and recycle it
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Some cones are there for months. So given that they are going to get filthy what would you do
Take them up and replace them with new ones from the depot?
Wash them with a pressure washer and knock them over?
Wash them with a hosepipe? yes like that works on the carp encrusted on my car
Or maybe employ some bloke who would otherwise be on benefits to clean the cones and maybe save a life?
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RF - Da DAA. < changes in phone box > Its TOURVAN man
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Take them up and replace them with new ones from the depot?
probably a lot cheaper than hand-polishing them
Or maybe employ some bloke who would otherwise be on benefits to clean the cones and maybe save a life?
Sounds tempting as an idea, but I really can't see that it adds up.
A coned-off section of road is often miles long, with cones at say 2m spacing ... which means say 750 cones per mile.
Can one man with a few rags really clean all of those? He'd need a huge pile of rags and/or a lot of buckets of water. Even if he had someone dropping off fresh cleaning supplies every hundred yards or so, it'd still take two days to clean the whole mile, and it wouldn't be just one person at work.
So either the man is only polishing a few of the cones or it's a much more expensive operation than simply dropping him off to do a day's work.
I may be wrong, but it just doedn't make sense to me.
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This is turning into a surreal discussion, but a couple of points:
Surely, as described originally, the bloke was cleaning the cones all at once, presumably either after they'd be gathered up, or before they got put out, either way they're clean ready for their next job and the cleaner didn't have to set off on a 10 mile hike.
There was a set of cones around a hole in the centre of the road going out of Congleton the other day, and in darkness they were practically invisible, due to being dirty. I came very close to going straight through them. I am therefore in favour of clean ones.
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Surely, as described originally, the bloke was cleaning the cones all at once, presumably either after they'd be gathered up, or before they got put out, either way they're clean ready for their next job and the cleaner didn't have to set off on a 10 mile hike.
That would make sense to me. But the idea of cleaning em all once deployed does seem a bit weird.
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"Cones are reflective. Filthy cones covered in mud and merde are not. Important piece of road safety at work here."
Yeah like you won?t be crashing into them anyway with your slick summer tyres and your clumsy right foot braking.
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Now you look ere Wavey, you are on the way to a thick ear. Keeping your wing mirrors clean are you? oopps sorry mate I forgot......
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RF - Da DAA. < changes in phone box > Its TOURVAN man
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I think they should use convicts (suitably manacled/chained as in Cool Hand Luke!) for menial jobs like cleaning traffic cones, clearing grass verges, collecting roadside rubbish etc. This would allow people who do it now to do more amenable jobs.
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I think they should use convicts (suitably manacled/chained as in Cool Hand Luke!) for menial jobs like cleaning traffic cones, clearing grass verges, collecting roadside rubbish etc. This would allow people who do it now to do more amenable jobs.
It's a lovely thought, except I'm not sure about that last bit. It'd be nice to think it'd allow those people to do nicer jobs, but would it in fact just put them on the dole?
Putting prisoners to work is a nice sounding idea, but it would really have to be doing something that otherwise doesn't get donw at all, otherwise you're going to take the lowest wage earners in the country and take their wages away altogether.
On the other hand, does anyone at all currently clear grass verges? So maybe it wouldn't be taking a job after all.
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"What we have here is a failure to communicate"
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RF - Da DAA. < changes in phone box > Its TOURVAN man
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The cones in question are at the end of the M32 next to the Staples shop. Numbering ~ 150 and can only have been there a month or two. It came as a shock after all these years of motoring to see someone giving the cones some TLC. However, in this safety concious and litigatious world it might be prudent for the owners to keep them clean. With luck this could be the start of something new.
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clearing grass verges, collecting roadside rubbish etc.
The last 4 miles of the M62 into Liverpool were down to 1 lane on Saturday as these tasks took place. Caused havoc. Is it absolutely necessary to keep the grass in the central reservation mown?
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Is it absolutely necessary to keep the grass in the central reservation mown?
It does seem a bit of a luxury.
In Ireland, they usually plant shrubs in the central reservation. Looks nice, provides a useful carbon sink, and helps pevent dazzle from the lights of oncoming traffic -- dunno why it seems so rare to find that in the UK.
I suppose the shrubs do eventually need trimming, which is probably more disruptive than the grass cutting, tho I've never seen it happening
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Shrubs would probably not grow over the barriers as they would get knocked by the vehicles. Ever see the shape of trees on a main road? - they take on the shape of the highest bus that drives past!
Also, shrubs would cushion an accident better than metal railings.
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