JC Decaux signs - take extra care

Tell all your friends to be careful this weekend while they are out in Dublin. Mail them this link, and ask them to spread the word. Warn your friends and family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka2xiMQtqFA

This just breaks ALL the rules....criminal.



Pedestrian stepping out




Motorist view of left turn - oncoming traffic view is blocked



Footpath width reduced

Planning conditions broken

2) The developer shall remove one hundred 48 sheet hoardings and associated fittings within one year of the final grant of planning permission of the metropole advertising structure (advertising display panel). Details of the existing 48 sheet hoardings to be removed (including location map and photograph(s) of each structure) together with a dated photographic record of their removal shall be submitted to the Planning Authority within one month of their removal. Reason: In the interest of visual amenity and the prevention of visual clutter.

NOT DONE

8) The applicant shall comply with the requirements of the Roads Department:
a)The proposed structure shall not impede 70X3m vehicular sight lines.

Anyone help with this - im not an engineer but this sightline envelope looks big...anyone? I'm sure this is breached.

b)The proposed structure shall not impede any road signs, traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, vision along kerb edge lines or any other road infrastructure. This may require a slight adjustment in the proposed location as submitted.

c)The proposed structure shall not impede pedestrian desire lines or reduce footpath width below 1.8m, absolute minimum. (This figure will vary upwards depending on pedestrian and vehicle volumes).



d)The proposed structure shall be subject to a Stage 3 Road Safety Audit at the applicants expense. This will be done by an approved auditor through a public procurement procedure, which shall audit the entire permitted signage. Any failure shall be removed.

THIS HAS NOT BEEN DONE!

e)If at any stage it is required by the Road Authority that the sign shall be relocated or removed, it shall be, at the applicants expense and at no cost to the Local Authority. Reason: In the interests of the proper planning and development of the area

Full licence for DCC to remove these signs - keep the pressure on folks!

Eoin Madden of the Road & Traffic Dept at the An Pleanála Oral Hearing said that a sign further down this street outside BDO Simpson Xavier building would not pass a safety audit. It was withdrawn. This sign is placed in the same way next to the kerb.




Pedestrian steps out from behind sign...notice she is looking LEFT - the danger is from the RIGHT! also notice the road bends to the left further down...emergency vehicles at speed (garda for example) view of peds crossing the street further down will also be impaired.




Footpath with here is now only 150cm

c)The proposed structure shall not impede pedestrian desire lines or reduce footpath width below 1.8m, absolute minimum.

My video comments with the soundtrack of Liveline on Friday, two councillors appear to defend these and Mannix Flynn gives them a roasting;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDJXQKkTobk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSo89H_EooI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQEbzC5tYFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVNFyf30YNA


My introduction to the situation...




Daithi Doolon for the defence (I have added background info and corrections)...




Mannix Flynn gets exercised....( )




Final part (I was dropped for some reason and not allowed the final comment)

No contact from them anyway...although my contact details are with Liveline's researchers. PM me if you would like to help with the next steps.

I didn't get a chance to pull him up on that (I'll be annotating the parts 3 & 4 later tonight).

It's now 50 billboards they have agreed to remove; (see how this deal keeps shrinking)

Anyway, I cannot see how these have had a safety audit...I simply don't believe Daithi that this was done for each of them. In some cases the planning site map was just a red dot on a map. These were rammed through planning (we even had the remains of a refusal left on the website in Smithfield - but management clearly overruled the planner)

Keep texting and mailing!

It's great to see the reaction now, but a terrible pity it had to wait until the bloody things went up.
If only a few more people had objected (and appealed) at the planning stages we probably could have stopped them all.

Couldn't agree more, but to be honest they were well buried. The site notices were just yet another planning application notice on a wall nearby. Most of them went in the week before Christmas.

Scandalous that there was no Environmental Impact Assessment and no Public Consultations.

It's not like anyone was asked did they want these feckin things.


Text or email your councillors and the city manager. Make your voice heard.