Road signs for 2003 special olympics

rye_212

Travelling on the Athlone bypass yesterday from the Galway side, I saw a sign that said "Athlone, host town to India".

Is this a record? Are there other remnants from 2003 still on display around the country?

C'mon Athlone UDC, or whoever is responsible - send a man out with a hacksaw to take it down.

Cookie_Monster

Enniscorthy definitely still has one up. I think Arklow still does on the old road too.

Vic_08

rye1967 wrote: »

Travelling on the Athlone bypass yesterday from the Galway side, I saw a sign that said "Athlone, host town to India".

Is this a record? Are there other remnants from 2003 still on display around the country?

Yes, lots of them.

The issue I have with these is the waste of money putting them up in the first place when our basic necessary road signs are so far below standard. I couldn't care less that the LA has not wasted more resources in removing them.

murphaph

rye1967 wrote: »

Is this a record?

No.

Melion

Shannon still has their sign up, host town to Azerbaijan

Cookie_Monster

murphaph wrote: »

No.

whats wrong with that? sure, they could paint over the date part but its still a valid sign warning of weight restrictions

Riskymove

rye1967 wrote: »

Travelling on the Athlone bypass yesterday from the Galway side, I saw a sign that said "Athlone, host town to India".

Is this a record? Are there other remnants from 2003 still on display around the country?

C'mon Athlone UDC, or whoever is responsible - send a man out with a hacksaw to take it down.

whats the issue? its not really a road sign per se is it, more like 'welcome to athlone, twinned with wherever'

murphaph

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

whats wrong with that? sure, they could paint over the date part but its still a valid sign warning of weight restrictions

It's not a warning sign. It's an advisory sign advising of a prohibition ahead for HGV drivers in 1990 who would have been used to using the route.

20 years is long enough for any HGV driver driving the route to become accustomed to the "new" restrictions, don't you think? The signs should have been removed 19 years ago tbh as the real prohibition signs are further along and they are what prevent trucks using the hills concerned.

This is now just more street clutter/junk which councils are too lazy to remove. More examples..

Either the brown (likely unnoficial and without permission) "tourist signage" should have been integrated into the design of the new sign, or should have been simply removed, but now we just have more clutter (Wexford):


same again, this time Wicklow:


Fingal CC are particularly lazy and leave all sorts of junk in situ. Clutter = distraction for drivers. Signage should be clear and concise, drivers should not have to scan through a load of junk, old signs, illegal signs and whatnot before finding the sign (if it's there) that they need to guide them on their way. The laws already exist to allows councils (and the Guards actually) to remove signage from the roadside and dispose of it at the owners' cost. This legislation should be used to clean up the clutter from our roads and streets.

dynamick

I remember the Nordies doing themselves proud by finding ways to end up in disputes with the special athletes.

Larne even got their host country team kicked out.
for having he gall to get themselves invaded.

Dubluc

On the N4 outbound from Dublin when you come off the Chapelizod bypass and enter County South Dublin the sign which welcomes you to the county has a section on it saying "Celebrating 10 Years".

At this stage it must have the record for the longest running hooley cos the sign has been up since 2004. The county came into existence in 1994.

The funny thing is that this part of the sign is an add on which is covering an earlier message and recently it began to fall off after bad weather.

Did they then take it down as it would cause a hazard and realise it's been up just a little too long?

No they put it back up properly!

nordydan

dynamick wrote: »

I remember the Nordies doing themselves proud by finding ways to end up in disputes with the special athletes.

Larne even got their host country team kicked out.
for having he gall to get themselves invaded.

Iraq got a lucky break there...

L1011

I need to grab a few pics of the "no entry for road construction traffic" signs on sideroads around the M4 at some point.

That'd be the original bit of the M4. That opened in 1993!

dfx-

There's two signs just past the Round Tower in Clondalkin about no left turn to Fonthill Rd I think..which date to 8th June 1999. A year ago, they finally covered up the date...

Abbeyleix has its Special Olympics sign too, but I've passed it so many times, I've no idea who they hosted

corktina

Millstreet still have signs up about Eurovision in 1988!

Bards

Tramore Co. Waterford has a sign up advising motorists about a New Roundabout Ahead - has been there at least 20 years.

When does a New Rondabout/road layout become an old one?

Mrs OBumble

Bards wrote: »

When does a New Rondabout/road layout become an old one?

When the locals learn how to drive it without breaking the ROTR.

Cookie_Monster

JustMary wrote: »

When the locals learn how to drive it without breaking the ROTR.

ie never

flazio

In relation to the Special Olympic signs, why not just leave them there? They stand as a reminder of our fantastic achievements in 2003, same as any plaque or commemorative garden or statue.

Stinicker

flazio wrote: »

In relation to the Special Olympic signs, why not just leave them there? They stand as a reminder of our fantastic achievements in 2003, same as any plaque or commemorative garden or statue.

It wasn't really an achievement and was just an unusual event held here. Those signs should be long destroyed.

Del2005

Stinicker wrote: »

It wasn't really an achievement and was just an unusual event held here. Those signs should be long destroyed.

They should be long gone, but it's too late now and we've better things to be spending our money. Fixing a few potholes or putting up proper direction signs on all junctions(though I suppose they could take them down doing that:D).

lord lucan

Del2005 wrote: »

Fixing a few potholes or putting up proper direction signs on all junctions(though I suppose they could take them down doing that:D).

Ah now,don't you know the union would demand a special rate or once-off payment for it!:pac: