[Talk-GB] How closely do we map lamp posts?

[Dave F]

I already answered your last point.
Good to see the give way is against the motor vehicles.

On 02/09/2020 22:37, Lester Caine wrote:
> On 02/09/2020 19:00, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
>> I don't know the area. but they look like the existing posts to me. 
>> Has the cycle path been realigned around them to provide better 
>> vision splays/ stopping room to motorists?
>>
>> https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7730673,-1.2396435,3a,56.4y,188.18h,85.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCSZk4LPVkVJecufviv4kzw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 
>>
>> I believe it's something to do with building regs. Existing posts 
>> have to be one of the last items to be decommissioned, usually by 
>> newly installed ones. Similar happened on one of the London CS ways, 
>> where everyone got their knickers in a twist over it.
>
> The fact that a neatly finished cycleway surface now has to be dug up 
> so that the electric supply can be moved to a new location and the 
> lamp pole moved is just another example of the complete waste of money 
> many of these 'improvements' result in? Actually another question is 
> just why the kerb to the footpath and the cycleway had to be moved at 
> all? It no longer lines up with the next section anyway.
>