Clampdown on trailer ads beside M6 motorway

Run_to_da_hills · 17-08-2010 07:08PM #1

"Galway County Council has announced a clampdown on unauthorised advertising structures that have been placed on private lands along the M6 Galway to Dublin motorway in the county".

I welcome this move and hope it becomes nationwide also I hope they also ban outreached teleporters on the roadside advertising property.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0817/advertising.html

jaffa20 · 17-08-2010 08:24PM

I thought there was already a ban on all motorway advertisting? About time if it's not the case.

Now just need a ban on speed cameras on motorways too.

Run_to_da_hills · 17-08-2010 10:19PM

jaffa20 wrote: »

I thought there was already a ban on all motorway advertisting? About time if it's not the case.

Now just need a ban on speed cameras on motorways too.

Apart from being ugly they are also a destraction.

jock101 · 17-08-2010 10:23PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Apart from being ugly they are also a destraction.

What like Road signs! If these Adverts distracted you, you should not be driving! This is just a money maker for all the Broke CoCo's!:rolleyes: What about Billboards? Should they be banned!

Absurdum · 17-08-2010 10:27PM

jock101 wrote: »

Should they be banned!

only trolls

onimpulse · 17-08-2010 10:28PM

I think it's uncalled for to be honest... it's a distraction my foot... I'm sick of this government constantly making things hard for businesses and then wondering why we have record unemployment.

A lot of businesses in towns recently bypassed are going to suffer - I really dont' see the harm in these ad's- they're just trying to do what they can to get some of the passing trade. Only someone who shouldn't be behind the wheel anyway is going to be distracted to the point of danger by them - they may even help keep people awake by distracting them from the monotony of motorway driving!

We've far too many regulations in this country when it comes to business & it's counter productive - drive across the border & have a look around at the amount of business run from houses at the side of the road & the advertising outside them & compare it to here... having all shopping in foreign owned shopping centers doesn't do anything for this economy.

(just to be clear I have no connection to or involvement with any of these ad's)

Ali Babba · 17-08-2010 10:29PM

The bottom line here is all about money that the councils aren't making, it's got nothing to do with eyesores etc, typical of the money grabbing b@stards that they are.

KamiKazi · 17-08-2010 10:33PM

F*ck the RSA and their f*cking idiotic attitude to road safety!

Sort out the slick as ice manhole covers, huge potholes, muck and sh1te left by farmers, hills of gravel left by gobsh1te county councils, fuel spillages from buses and trucks THEN maybe start looking at removing ads along MOTORWAYS! Of all the f*cking places to be looking to improve road safety!!

Grrrr :mad:

Atlantic Dawn · 17-08-2010 10:35PM

Why do the same muppets who are getting rid of the trailer ads pay small fortunes for artistic sculptures to be placed beside some of the new motorways, seems every bit as much if not more of a distraction to drivers.

Cookie_Monster · 17-08-2010 10:38PM

so Galway Coco can now tell you where you are allowed leave machinery on your own land? Why?

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Why do the same muppets who are getting rid of the trailer ads pay small fortunes for artistic sculptures to be placed beside some of the new motorways, seems every bit as much if not more of a distraction to drivers.

+1

Run_to_da_hills · 17-08-2010 10:38PM

jock101 wrote: »

What like Road signs! If these Adverts distracted you, you should not be driving! This is just a money maker for all the Broke CoCo's!:rolleyes: What about Billboards? Should they be banned!

I have never seen an official commercial billboard on an Irish motorway. :rolleyes:

Low Energy Eng · 17-08-2010 10:46PM

Anyone see the trailor on the M6 that says "shame on you offaly county council"

Someones fairly thick over something!! Possibly a letter they recieved asking them to remove their trailor...

Think its offaly co co they refer to, saw it a while ago

Cicero · 17-08-2010 10:55PM

Drove M6 today:

The trailers are distracting and more-so- misleading....some are positioned at points where you might have to vere to the left/right...going 120KPH.....not the wisest of moves TBH.....
...If loss of tourism in certain midlands counties is the motivaiton for some posts here (not original post obviously)..then there's other ways and marketing channels to get your town noticed but really don't think this is the way....there is a science to road directions and to be honest, I feel some of the signs, in the way they are positioned.......are an accident waiting to happen....

kikel · 17-08-2010 11:02PM

And they should remove vehicle graphics aswell as thats distracting.

:p:p:p:p:p

This totally distracted me on the quays in dublin last week.

The size of the exhausts is ridiculous, I couldn't take my eyes off it. Didn't mean i was going to crash.

Bodhan · 17-08-2010 11:05PM

As if motorway driving wasn't boring enough, now there'll be nothing to read

Run_to_da_hills · 17-08-2010 11:15PM

kikel wrote: »

And they should remove vehicle graphics aswell as thats distracting. :p:p:p:p:p

This totally distracted me on the quays in dublin last week.

The size of the exhausts is ridiculous, I couldn't take my eyes off it. Didn't mean i was going to crash.

At 18mph you are hardly going to swerve across the road infront of the path of another vehicle.

kikel · 17-08-2010 11:28PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

At 18mph you are hardly going to swerve across the road infront of the path of another vehicle.

But I could run kill a pedestrian or cyclist.

I presume the Mr Tayto van drives in other places than the quays.

If the council planning offices are doing this to give themselves something to do in these hard times fair enough. I wouldnt blame them for that, they're probably trying to justify there jobs. But anyone that says they're distracting is just being unreasonable.

daveharnett · 18-08-2010 01:10AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

"Galway County Council has announced a clampdown on unauthorised advertising structures that have been placed on private lands along the M6 Galway to Dublin motorway in the county".

So do you need planning permission to park a trailer on your farm now?

As to distracting drivers:
A: This is nannying of the highest order. Drivers are responsible for their own actions.

B: Apparently these aren't too distracting (as long as the council concerned gets it's cut)

Run_to_da_hills · 18-08-2010 03:43AM

kikel wrote: »

If the council planning offices are doing this to give themselves something to do in these hard times fair enough. I wouldnt blame them for that, they're probably trying to justify there jobs. But anyone that says they're distracting is just being unreasonable.

The problem is that various Joe muck's around the country would see the potential in renting out their road side sites to businesses to park their 40ft containers for a fee that would be a fraction to what JC Decaux, Taylor’s or any official advertising company would offer.

They would also be offering their services in a location where it would be illegal / forbidden for any official commercial advertising company to advertise without planning permission.

If this is not nipped in the bud every farmer and developer in the country with road side property would see the potential and would jump on the bandwagon. Eventually our interurbans would become blighted with them.

You must also remember that many of these same greedy farmers have already made a killing (at premium rate ) out of CPO's during the economoc boom for the land that was provided for these motorways in the first place.

Mike... · 18-08-2010 03:53AM

Seem's there is somewhat of a cull on advertising in Galway, Last week the city council took all the sandwich boards from business's around the city... Maybe it's time to start getting creative.

Run_to_da_hills · 18-08-2010 05:06AM

Mike... wrote: »

Seem's there is somewhat of a cull on advertising in Galway, Last week the city council took all the sandwich boards from business's around the city... Maybe it's time to start getting creative.

Thats ok as long as they don't stop them from selling the sandwitches.

Cookie_Monster · 18-08-2010 09:48AM

Mike... wrote: »

Seem's there is somewhat of a cull on advertising in Galway, Last week the city council took all the sandwich boards from business's around the city... Maybe it's time to start getting creative.

do they have any reason for that, seems totally over the top to me

veritable · 18-08-2010 10:04AM

A govt body (in this case the County Co) should have no right to interfere in what the owner of private land does with it, as long as he is not imposing a cost on other people.

What cost is he imposing by putting advertising on it? Keep your eyes on the road like a responsible driver and you will not notice the ads. These ads are on fields and not like the roadside art imposed on us.

What about the cost (both financial and as a direct roadside distraction) these stupid statues impose on us as motorists and taxpayers?

Where do these useless muppets in local govt get off telling somebody what they can and can't do with their own property?

Run_to_da_hills · 18-08-2010 10:05AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

do they have any reason for that, seems totally over the top to me

Apart from the treat of pedestrians with impaired vision tripping over them and then taking legal action against the council for failing to keep their pathways clear of obstacles.

Seth Brundle · 18-08-2010 10:16AM

If you drive much faster (160km/h+) on the motorways then you tend not to notice them

Cookie_Monster · 18-08-2010 10:25AM

veritable wrote: »

A govt body (in this case the County Co) should have no right to interfere in what the owner of private land does with it, as long as he is not imposing a cost on other people.

I wouldn't go that black and white, ye can't have people illegally burning dangerous waste, or building unplanned buildings etc for example.

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Apart from the treat of pedestrians with impaired vision tripping over them and then taking legal action against the council for failing to keep their pathways clear of obstacles.

why has this threat only appeared in the country in the last year then and not the preceding 100? ****ing PCism - how can you fail to see a 3ft high sign. What about rubbish bins, present the same threat, are they being removed?

kbannon wrote: »

If you drive much faster (160km/h+) on the motorways then you tend not to notice them

:D:D

R.O.R · 18-08-2010 10:26AM

veritable wrote: »

Where do these useless muppets in local govt get off telling somebody what they can and can't do with their own property?

Try adding 4 stories on to the top of your house, and let us know how you get on without planning permission.

NI clamped down on this recently (remember seeing a news report) and it's been outlawed in the UK for a good while.

Advertising hoardings require planning permission and you aren't going to get that by the side of a motorway. This is people getting around that by exploiting a loophole which someone is now closing.

veritable · 18-08-2010 10:32AM

Quote "I wouldn't go that black and white, ye can't have people illegally burning dangerous waste, or building unplanned buildings etc for example."

I think it is black and white. Burning dangerous waste is against the law precisely because it imposes a cost (pollution) on other people. And unplanned buildings? why on earth would anybody build or even buy an unplanned building?
If you mean planned as in planning permission; you should not be stopped from building on your own land as long as it doesn't affect anybody else. It's pretty black and white to me.

Cookie_Monster · 18-08-2010 10:32AM

R.O.R wrote: »

Advertising hoardings require planning permission and you aren't going to get that by the side of a motorway. This is people getting around that by exploiting a loophole which someone is now closing.

but its just a parked trailer, if Tesco park there's trailers somewhere do they need permission as they also have ads on the side of them...

Jaysoose · 18-08-2010 10:33AM

What about all the sheep and the cows in the fields alongside the motorway i find them terribly distracting and often find myself drifting off to the side of the road as a stare at them.

Absolute joke decision and some county councillors buddy who is in the advertising business has obviously thrown a wobbler..

Wont somebody think of the children.

Jaysoose · 18-08-2010 10:34AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

but its just a parked trailer, if Tesco park there's trailers somewhere do they need permission as they also have ads on the side of them...

No But...maybe..."Its just different ok"..

Clampdown on trailer ads beside M6 motorway

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