Council Brush Off then Obstruction Vanished

JustTryingToGetFromAtoB wrote:

Where there is a handy hedge in the vicinity as in your photo, I've slung them in before*.

I have to admit, I do that often with road signs - generally after they've already blown/knocked over and serve as nothing but a hazard.  On a related note, I've never understood why it is acceptable to obstruct a shared use path, solely to inform motorists of the presence of raod works which are as plain as day.  Or, perhaps even worse, the road signs that they put up to warn of future road works, with so much small writing that you can't possibly read the sign - unless you are stationary.

As opposed to the official obstruction (the support for the road sign right in the middle of the footway/cycle way (presumably this is one where they've just painted a line on a previous footway and called it good?).  Helpfully obscured by trees planted right at the edge of the private business development too...

And the fact that we've got a whole lane (likely 3 - 3.5 metres wide, in the UK that's a fine 2 lane cycle path) just for left-turning motor traffic of course - but that elephant is totally invisible to most!

If they're happy blocking the cycle lane, maybe they'd be just as happy obstructing the roadway...?  After all, its easier for a car to legally be driven around it whereas a cyclist would have to go onto the footway section (solid white line, innit).

brooksby wrote:

If they're happy blocking the cycle lane, maybe they'd be just as happy obstructing the roadway...? 

Around here there were signs warning of upcoming parking restrictions. They were up for ages and put on the bike path with heavy bases that were just draggable. You could get past on a regular bike but not past all of them if you had, as in my case, a child trailer. I used to stop and drag them out onto the road (often to the stares of other people though no one ever said anything to me). Someone was pretty quick getting them back on the bike path (I went past this spot once per day) but I persevered and eventually they found new places to put them that weren't the bike path.

As per the OP I should probably have contacted officialdom to complain instead but I have no idea who would be responsible - the council, the sign company, the orgsanisation that was doing work requiring the parking restrictions - and I still had to get my child to and from school in the mean time and didn't want them to experience the harrassment that you sometimes get by using the road.