Burnt out car - greystanes canal
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Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby g-boaf » Sun Jun 09, 2013 12:12 pm
Edit: They've put "warning - hazard ahead" signs in place. But take care approaching it from the Guildford side of the underpass - it'll be on the left lane.
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby TimW » Sun Jun 09, 2013 12:30 pm
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby g-boaf » Sun Jun 09, 2013 12:42 pm
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby zozza » Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:11 pm
Hope they don't leave it there for too long
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby g-boaf » Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:00 pm
They've put hazard signs with flashing lights in place. I have a feeling they'll end up putting bollards at each end of those underpasses to stop this happening in future, much like that bollard that briefly appeared at the western end of the viaduct.
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby leximack » Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:28 pm
thanks for finding my car boys, forgot where I parked it, twas a big nightzozza wrote:
Hope they don't leave it there for too long
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby Hergest » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:23 pm
There's a fair bit of fly tipping and this is the 2nd dumped car since Diona started doing the underground cables. They are leaving a lot of the access points open for months on end and in places taking out fencelines and not replacing them. It's to be hoped then when they finish it all then everything will be rectified and things will get back to normal.g-boaf wrote:Still there as of this afternoon. I went out for a ride and went down there to see if they had moved it.
They've put hazard signs with flashing lights in place. I have a feeling they'll end up putting bollards at each end of those underpasses to stop this happening in future, much like that bollard that briefly appeared at the western end of the viaduct.
#edit. As of 6 p.m it's still there. There was a burnt out Peugeot hatchback on Tennyson Parade that runs alongside that part of the canal and it was there for about 6 weeks so i hope the knackered old Honda in the tunnel doesn't sit for so long. There's probably arguments between council, emergency services and insurers as to who has to pay to remove these damn things.
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Postby g-boaf » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:51 pm
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby Hergest » Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:00 pm
The car has been removed by being dragged out of the underpass leaving a trail of glass where it's been dragged that hasn't been cleaned up. Where the burnt out car was is now a big pile of ash and glass and crap that hasn't been cleaned up and whoever removed the car also moved the warning barriers but didn't put them back.
Could it have been too hard to stand by with a couple of council blokes with a wheel barrow and broom to clean up while the tow truck was there?
I've tried the council this morning but just got a message bank.
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby g-boaf » Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:02 pm
Hergest: Yes, I saw it as well. I'll ring them again - or I'll walk up there again myself and move the warning barriers back to a more suitable place. Just useless.
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby zozza » Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:50 am
They will decide at the next general meeting if they have the resources to sweep away the mess. Don't hold your breath though because they have another 100 bronze plaques on order and their fleet of cars are nearly one year old!
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby biker jk » Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:29 am
Yes I rode through there yesterday and in the dark tunnel there was no warning of the glass and other debris nor of the barriers sticking one third out into the path. I managed to get through without incident. Morons at work.Hergest wrote:Oh gawd, where's the 'bang your head against a brick wall' emoticon?
The car has been removed by being dragged out of the underpass leaving a trail of glass where it's been dragged that hasn't been cleaned up. Where the burnt out car was is now a big pile of ash and glass and crap that hasn't been cleaned up and whoever removed the car also moved the warning barriers but didn't put them back.
Could it have been too hard to stand by with a couple of council blokes with a wheel barrow and broom to clean up while the tow truck was there?
I've tried the council this morning but just got a message bank.
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Re: Burnt out car - greystanes canal
Postby g-boaf » Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:27 am
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