Residents with Fingal County Council as their local authority may know about their often bad road design and brutal signage. The Roads Department isn’t good at implementing pedestrian or cyclist facilities in thoughtful ways.
There is a gem of an example on Blanchardstown Road South, behind Power City. There is a nice footpath and off-road cycle track that brings you from the nearby Renault garage to … well, that’s it, it doesn’t go anywhere. A little after you turn the corner and pass the pedestrian crossing, the footpath and cycle track just end. How bloody hard would have been to continue to Clonsilla Road, a mere 200 metres. The area is reserved for Metro West so ownership of the land would not have been a problem. Pathetic.
Not even nearly line up
Looking at the pedestrian crossing points at a nearby roundabout it looks like the Traffic Engineers at Fingal County Council have a wonky ruler.
The dished parts of the pavement on either side don’t even nearly line up. Even a kid would draw a more straight line freehand.
This was designed by the department whose policy is:
to provide appropriate traffic measures to ensure efficient and safe transportation for all road users.
A friend asked me to look at the website for Cronin moving company because he couldn’t find the phone number. He wasn’t mistaken, it’s not on the site! Nor is the company address! The phone book was used to get the number.
This omissions violates item 7 (Hidden Contact Details) in 10 reasons why your website sucks. In the list it gives Amazon.co.uk as an example. From a web development perspective, the site is horrible – look at the source code. Shudder. It appears to have been generated by Adobe GoLive 4 (AFAIK current version is GoLive 9).
Recently a new web design company asked those on the boards.ie Webmaster forum to review their website. It was a bloodbath.
The thread started off without a link to the site. As soon as that was rectified the massacre started. The site is so bad that some thought it was a joke.
Are you tired of being quoted ridiculous for the design of a site. Nowadays, with the cost of internet access getting cheaper, it’s of the utmost imporance that a company have it’s own web page(s) presence.
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Tired of being quoted ridiculous what? “imporance” is spelt wrong. “it’s” should be “its”. “page(s)” should be omitted. The guy in the photo on the site looks sleazy.
I haven’t seen any typos since my last post but did hear George Bush’s grammer gaff on The Daily Show last week (each show is broadcast the following night on More4).
They showed the clip where President Bush stated, in front of a class of New York school kids, that “Childrens do learn.”
Among many other gaffs, this one sits right alongside the “Is our children learning?” from his first election campaign. The same article also mentions the president’s recent speech to the U.N. General Assembly where he was using a phonetic pronunciation guide for the names of world leaders!
A few weeks ago I was nearly taken out by a motorist entering a roundabout that somehow failed to see hi-viz me on my bike. Scared the hell out of me. I reported it in Cabra Garda station a few minutes later.
A week later I dropped into the station to see how the ‘investigation’ was progressing. En route there I passed by a car parked on a nearby cycle track (solid white line, during operating hours) and took a photo on my phone. I asked the Garda to have a word with the driver, maybe even give penalty points (it’s 1 point for Driving on a cycle track). The Garda said that it wasn’t a penalty point offence. I said it was (I remember when it came into effect – it was mentioned in the Irish Times at the time). He repeated that it wasn’t and said, “I know my job.” I cut my losses and lied that maybe I was mistaken. Inspires confidence doesn’t it.
In an high density estate near me is a car with a corny bumper sticker on the rear bumper. It has a pathetic typo. Equally bad is the probable Irish-American source of the thing. Some might find the leprechaun image offensive, I think it’s pathetic.
Rippened (sic) tomatoes
I wonder how many of these stickers Tesco has already printed and how long it will be before a corrected version appears. That’s if they answer my email.