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Footscray Rd path
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:13 am
by Mulger bill
Watch out when you get to the Dudley St intersection, the powers that be have installed a new pole at the Nth West corner that appears to carry a button for the crossing lights. It's only a shorty and it's
right in the middle of the two way kerb cut
It is also unpainted gal pipe which does an excellent job of blending in with the grey of the concrete. I'll get pics tomorrow if it hasn't improved.
Re: Footscray Rd path
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:37 pm
by rkelsen
They'd only just gotten rid of one in the exact same spot!
Re: Footscray Rd path
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:57 pm
by Mulger bill
You sure? Then I musta ridden past it a hundred times without seeing it...
Re: Footscray Rd path
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:09 am
by rkelsen
My bad. Looks like they moved it about a metre, into the stream of traffic. Why couldn't they put the button for the lights on the lamppost which is right there? This thing is a hazard.
Re: Footscray Rd path
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:19 pm
by Mulger bill
That's the one, a coat of yellow paint at the bare minimum thanks
. I wonder who the authority would be?
Re: Footscray Rd path
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:03 am
by jules21
Mulger bill wrote: the powers that be have installed a new pole at the Nth West corner
shaun, did you mean the south-west corner? they took one out of that corner, but seem to have recently replaced it in a similarly perilous position to which you described.
Re: Footscray Rd path
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:10 am
by goodlookingcyclist
what is it with these people ..
Is it possible to put a picture up of the hazard ?
Re: Footscray Rd path
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:47 pm
by Mulger bill
jules21 wrote:Mulger bill wrote: the powers that be have installed a new pole at the Nth West corner
shaun, did you mean the south-west corner? they took one out of that corner, but seem to have recently replaced it in a similarly perilous position to which you described.
Well I make it the NW corner according to
Google maps I hope the link works.
I tried getting pics GLC but my phone cam is a shocker at night. Will try for a daylight shot tomorrow.
Shaun
Re: Footscray Rd path
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:04 am
by jules21
yeah - you're right. i noticed that one too, it's a shocker. common sense gone missing, assuming it ever existed for whoever is responsible for it.