JC Decaux stickers around Dublin: "We stole your fu**ing bicycle".

Run_to_da_hills

Did anyone notice these black stickers on the stainless Steel bike posts at the top of Grafton ST and around the city? "JC Deecaux "We stole your fu**ing bicycle".

Someone with a sense of humor printed a good few of them, professionally done in black with the Dublin City Council crest. Very funny.

72hundred

Anyone got a pic?

beans

We know it was you Run_to_da_hills, you shameless self-promoter

Run_to_da_hills

beans wrote: »

We know it was you Run_to_da_hills, you shameless self-promoter

I would have about 20 years ago in collage.

72hundred wrote: »

Anyone got a pic?

If I get in during the week,It was too datk with cam phone. Theres another one on the Dawsom St bike rack opposite Waterstones.

rabalder

there is some on the bike rails across the road form Whelans, just outside Eddied. I was curious too about them!

beans

on the bike rails across the road form Whelans...

The very one:



Note the DCC logo

NeilMcEoigheann

my eh ..... "friend"
had this idea to make a large stencil
asking "where are the f*cking bikes"
and to spray over the JC Decaux ads,
would sort of highlight the issue.........

abcdggs

i'm probably just being thick, but i know there's a clever side to this but i'm not getting it...

Bunnyhopper

Decaux signed a deal with Dublin City Council to provide bikes for public rental around the city, similar to the Velib system in Paris. In exchange, Decaux were allowed to put up a load of fancy advertising panels.

The panels have been going up all over the place, but still no sign of the bikes: that's the point being made by the stickers.

There's a few discussions on here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055485537

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055485398

and

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055329731

and several others, I'm sure.

abcdggs

Ah everything is so much clearer,

Ste.phen

NeilMcEoigheann wrote: »

my eh ..... "friend"
had this idea to make a large stencil
asking "where are the f*cking bikes"
and to spray over the JC Decaux ads,
would sort of highlight the issue.........

I absolutely could not support such an action. It would be too damn hilarious, and I might spill coffee.

Bunnyhopper

Ste.phen wrote: »

I absolutely could not support such an action. It would be too damn hilarious, and I might spill coffee.

How much would it cost to buy adspace on one of those things so we could put up a BIG poster that says "Where are our Feckin' bikes???"

Run_to_da_hills

Bunnyhopper wrote: »

Decaux signed a deal with Dublin City Council to provide bikes for public rental around the city, similar to the Velib system in Paris. In exchange, Decaux were allowed to put up a load of fancy advertising panels.

The panels have been going up all over the place, but still no sign of the bikes: that's the point being made by the stickers.

JC Decaux is hoping that the Government will forget about the bicycles amongst all the confusion of more serious state issues. The fact that the Government could be liable if there were an excess of stolen and vandalized bicycles could also be a reason for trying to shove the project under the carpet.

Chips Lovell

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el tonto wrote: »

Ghost Rider

These stickers seem a bit unfocussed. Maybe the way to satirise the whole selling-off-of-public property by DCC might be to stencil/sticker public buildings, wear t-shirts/caps etc. reading "PROPERTY OF JC DECAUX".

Run_to_da_hills

These stickers are professionally produced, they could be the product of one of JC Decauxes competitors. There is a lot of bitterness among other media display companies over this deal. We may see more of them.

Caroline_ie

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

These stickers are professionally produced, they could be the product of one of JC Decauxes competitors. There is a lot of bitterness among other media display companies over this deal. We may see more of them.

... Nha ... it's probably the work of some hippy-vegan-cycling-artist-type ( no offence )

Chips Lovell

Caroline_ie wrote: »

... Nha ... it's probably the work of some hippy-artist-cycling-vegan-type ( no offence )

Agreed.

The conspiracy theory forum is that way

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bfc

here's another - think it was aungier street? lamp post.

Ghost Rider

This stuff is confusing. What is the source of the voice behind these stickers? The ones about the bikes seem to be someone other than JC Decaux. The one on the lamp post (above) seems like it's supposed to be spoken by JC Decaux themselves.

I suspect this is some sort of guerilla art/1st-year-NCAD project. There's a good idea in there - shame it's confusingly executed.

bfc wrote: »

here's another - think it was aungier street? lamp post.

72hundred

Ghost Rider wrote: »

I suspect this is some sort of guerilla art/1st-year-NCAD project. There's a good idea in there - shame it's confusingly executed.

I doubt the Thomas Str. potheads would manages something like this.

(72hundred sits back and waits for the slagging for such slander on the fine students of NCAD!!!)

blorg

I'd watch out there 72oo, there is at least one NCAD student on this very forum!

Victor

I think I saw this one on a hoarding. Apologies for the bluriness.

DirkVoodoo

It does seem to be carried out by a group who are not happy with JCDecaux's lack of bike supply for Dublin. When are the bikes due? I mean the signs have been in place for a good while now.

DisasterIRL

A little of topic but has anyone seen the I love lamp stickers around?

blorg

@Victor- that is the best one yet, I genuinely LOLed.

Run_to_da_hills

Victor wrote: »

I think I saw this one on a hoarding. Apologies for the bluriness.

LOL

TinyExplosions

blorg wrote: »

I'd watch out there 72oo, there is at least one NCAD student on this very forum!

Hmmmm, who's the most pretentious poster here, that'll be them....

blorg

TinyExplosions wrote: »

Hmmmm, who's the most pretentious poster here, that'll be them....

You might be surprised Tiny, if you came out on the Saturday Spins any more you would meet these people

TinyExplosions

blorg wrote: »

You might be surprised Tiny, if you came out on the Saturday Spins any more you would meet these people

Yes yes yes yes yes, I know it's been a while, but the real world's been getting in the way lately... bet I wouldn't be surprised though :cool:

bfc

here's another from the trip to work today. very random indeed. apologies for quality - off the phone again.

mr. pleasant

random, yep, but i think the guys (whoever) did a great job.

the whole bicyle deal seems dodgy enough, and once again nobody in this country seems to care. these guys do care however, so fair play to them!

MadsL

The French do it louder and harder!!

Babel fish transaltion not the best....(mensonge = a lie or falsehood)

Twenty hours of police custody for 6 militants anti-pub of the " Déboulonneurs" PARIS - Six members of the collective antipublicitaire of Déboulonneurs spent 20 hours as a police custody after having " barbouillé" three billboards in IXe district of Paris, one learned Sunday from police source. " In 34 actions, c' is the first time that daubers are not slackened by the police force with l' four hours exit lawful d' interpellation" , s' the collective is made indignant, which each month organizes such actions of civil disobedience in order to denounce l' giant posting. Saturday afternoon, the six militants had registered slogans antipublicitaires on three panels of l' bill-poster Future (group JC Decaux), located Rochechouart boulevard, in IXe district. Inter alia slogans, one could read " window of the mensonge" , " violence économique" or " legitimate réponse". With l' exit of this action, the daubers were challenged and led to the police station of VIIIe district. They n' were slackened that Sunday midday, with l' 20 hours exit of police custody. According to the police source, an preliminary investigation for " dégradation" was open on instruction of the parquet floor. The déboulonneurs say not to want " to remove the publicité" but " to give to its place". They claim that the billboards are limited to 50 X 70 cm, like l' associative posting.

http://www.romandie.com/ats/news/090301152509.346hujju.asp

By the way - despite my sig. the stickers aren't me - fair play to whoever it is.

lostexpectation

is some of the prime bikerack space going to be taken by these bikes,

are there enough as there is.

i know they already don't like having bikes on the o'connell median

bealbocht

saw this on Camden st on Friday.
This one says "this is now the property of JC.."

somebody is taking the pis

Civilian_Target

PARIS - Six membres du collectif antipublicitaire des Déboulonneurs ont passé 20 heures en garde à vue après avoir "barbouillé" trois panneaux publicitaires dans le IXe arrondissement de Paris, a-t-on appris dimanche de source policière.

"En 34 actions, c'est la première fois que des barbouilleurs ne sont pas relâchés par la police à l'issue des quatre heures réglementaires d'interpellation", s'est indigné le collectif, qui chaque mois organise de telles actions de désobéissance civile afin de dénoncer l'affichage géant.

Samedi après-midi, les six militants avaient inscrit des slogans antipublicitaires sur trois panneaux de l'afficheur Avenir (groupe JC Decaux), situés boulevard Rochechouart, dans le IXe arrondissement. Entre autres slogans, on pouvait lire "vitrine du mensonge", "violence économique" ou encore "légitime réponse".

A l'issue de cette action, les barbouilleurs ont été interpellés et conduits au commissariat du VIIIe arrondissement. Ils n'ont été relâchés que dimanche midi, à l'issue de 20 heures de garde à vue.

Selon la source policière, une enquête préliminaire pour "dégradation" a été ouverte sur instruction du parquet.

Les déboulonneurs disent ne pas vouloir "supprimer la publicité" mais "la remettre à sa place". Ils réclament que les panneaux publicitaires soient limités à 50 x 70 cm, comme l'affichage associatif.

Six members of the anti-advertisement group The Deboulonneurs (The unscrewers) spend 20 hours under the guards having smeared 3 billbounds in the 9th District (the expensive bit, with the parliament in it) in Paris, we learnt on Sunday from a police source.

In 34 cases, it's the first time the defacers have not been released the police after 4 hours of detention, said the group, which organises monthly actions of civil disorder to denounce the prevalence of advertising.

On saturday afternoon, the 6 inscribed anti-advertiser slogans on 3 JC Deceaux Avenir signs, situated as boulevard Rochechouart, in the 8th districk. The were not released until Sunday lunchtime, after 20 hours in custody.

The police source continued, saying a preliminary equiry for degradation has been opened by the instruction of the prosecuter.

The Deboulenneurs said the don't so much delete the publicity as put it in it's place. The space they reclaim on signs is limited to 50x70 cm, the same size as an associative attachement.

AMontague

LostExpectation asks about the possible loss of bike racks in the city centre to the scheme. There are going to be 40 stations in the city centre. In most cases there will be no loss of parking, but in some cases there will be a loss. For example, the Council intend to put a station on Prince's Street (beside the GPO). This will probably result in the removal of some of the bike stands on Prince's Street.

However, the council intend to put in 200 additional bike racks this year. At the moment there are about 1,000 around the city - so the 200 new racks should make a difference. The Council also intends to put up a new website for cyclists to allow cyclists to propose the locations for these racks using something like Google Maps.

Not all the new racks will be in the City Centre. I'm very keen that it is easy for people to cycle to their local shops and be able to lock their bikes securely, so I want to make sure that some of the new racks are out in the suburbs.

Cllr Andrew Montague
Chair of Dublin City Council's Cycling Forum

Harpz

@ AMontague- slight side topic but perhaps you can help.

The redevelopment of the area in front of the Store St. Garda station removed the best bike parking in dublin...Beside the luas, buses and connolly train station, and fairly secure because it was in front of the garda station. Any chance of getting that reinstated?

EDIT: Garda station beside busaras

Gavin

Harpz wrote: »

@ AMontague- slight side topic but perhaps you can help.

The redevelopment of the area in front of the Garda station removed the best bike parking in dublin...Beside the luas, buses and connolly train station, and fairly secure because it was in front of the garda station. Any chance of getting that reinstated?

There are a few Garda stations in Dublin..?

rottenhat

Reference to Connolly Station suggests Store St.

AMontague

I've passed the request for parking at Store Street station to the Cycling engineers.

Andrew

Gavin

AMontague wrote: »

I've passed the request for parking at Store Street station to the Cycling engineers.

Andrew

Off topic It's great to see a politician interacting with people here on boards. Hopefully you don't get scared away with the robust debate. Although I'm sure you're well used to that.

bfc

I think I'd like to be a cycling engineer...

Mucco

Our friends next door are getting in on the act:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/roadusers/cycling/cycle-hire-scheme/

Cabaal

Gavin wrote: »

Off topic It's great to see a politician interacting with people here on boards. Hopefully you don't get scared away with the robust debate. Although I'm sure you're well used to that.

Agreed,
Although I'm not in Dublin its great to see somebody interacting with people

neilled

Gavin wrote: »

Off topic It's great to see a politician interacting with people here on boards. Hopefully you don't get scared away with the robust debate. Although I'm sure you're well used to that.

By the way, Cllr Montague was the individual who supplied me with the info about the secure parking locations in Dublin that is now on the wiki.

markpb

AMontague wrote: »

For example, the Council intend to put a station on Prince's Street (beside the GPO). This will probably result in the removal of some of the bike stands on Prince's Street. However, the council intend to put in 200 additional bike racks this year. At the moment there are about 1,000 around the city - so the 200 new racks should make a difference.

I agree there should definitely be rental racks on O'Connell St but Princes st is one of the busiest and safest places to keep a bike in the city centre. I'd be very unhappy with the removal of racks from an already busy spot. What about in the taxi rank on O'Connell bridge northbound, in front of the concert hall on Parnell Sq or in the middle of the street which is terribly underused.

AMontague

markpb wrote: »

I agree there should definitely be rental racks on O'Connell St but Princes st is one of the busiest and safest places to keep a bike in the city centre. I'd be very unhappy with the removal of racks from an already busy spot. What about in the taxi rank on O'Connell bridge northbound, in front of the concert hall on Parnell Sq or in the middle of the street which is terribly underused.

I'll feed that back to the Council staff.

Andrew

morefrench

I have about 10 oldish bikes done up in the back yard . I would like to allow people to have them for a nominal couple of euro or something per day more out of frustration that this scheme is taking so long to get of the road rather than any profit motivation. Can I leave my phone number here 0830034233? Please let me know if not and I will remove. I'm located in the center.
http://dublin007.100webspace.net/index.html

pog it

I hear we won't be getting them until September but the infrastructure is mostly in place.

unionman

AMontague wrote: »

I'll feed that back to the Council staff.

Andrew

Belated congratulations on your re-election Andrew. Looking forward to seeing the scheme up and running.

Best, unionman (your friend from the Older & Bolder campaign;))