DCC and JCDecaux: Adding to the danger of Dublin city’s streets

DCC and JCDecaux: Adding to the danger of Dublin city’s streets, originally uploaded by infomatique.

While you may not be too interested in what happens in Dublin I nevertheless suggest that you should be aware of this issue because it is more than likely that this will happen in your city or town in the not too distant future.

Dublin City Council recently signed a deal with advertising group JCDecaux which would see a number of advertising panels erected on the city’s streets in return for some rent-able bikes. The first of these adverts have been put up in recent days and have quickly proven to be a major traffic and pedestrian hazard as this video details:

Over the last few weeks I have noticed a number of these very large street advertisements at various locations throughout the other city and I was not at all happy about them as they are obstruction our already congested foothpaths.

Last friday while walking by Marks & Spencer in Mary Street I noticed that a blind man had walked right into one of these new structures because he did not detect it with his cane (apparently a number of blind people have had this problem).

A thread on boards.ie has been the source of some impressive citizen activism in the last week and it seems the campaign there is just getting started.

OH! forgot to mention that there is no sign of the bicycles