Dangerous Dublin advert, courtesy of Dublin City Council and JCDecaux
Monday, July 7th, 2008On my way home from town today I spotted one of the new advert “panels” that are being erected as part of a deal between Dublin City Council and advertiser JCDecaux.
But it wasn’t the advert housed within the new panel that caught my eye - it was the placement of it. I quickly pulled out my camera-phone and started recording and you can see the somewhat blurry results here:
Ideally I’d have liked to have filmed it from street-level rather than the top of a double-decker bus - as that way you’d get a fairer impression of just how dangerous this advert panel is for drivers and pedestrians alike - but this was the best I could do in such a rush. Unfortunately the quality isn’t up to much - that’s owing more to the compression on Youtube’s end than the quality of the original recording, not that that was all that superb anyway.
When I came home I noticed that Cian’s blog had mentioned it and that there was a superb in-depth analysis of the same panel and the conditions it’s supposed to follow over on Boards.ie.
Go check it out and bask in the glory of Dublin planning.
(The video above was filmed on an LG U990 “Viewty” which I will be posting a review of here in the next few days.)
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July 8th, 2008 at 8:29 am
don’t forget the long running thread on archiseek/archeire
You thought Dublin’s streets were cluttered already?
http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=5715
July 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
A Chara
point very well made. It seems somtimes a slgan to ‘put it in - take it out - the only logic?’
and so I ask, who invented benchmarking?
slán go foill
peter
July 13th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
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July 15th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Adam - we done on the video. I think I was up on Dorset street taking pics on the same day. We managed to get a storm of emails and texts to councillors and it was removed very quickly. However there are still others in dangerous locations throughout the city. Please get in touch.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055329731
Also:
http://ie.youtube.com/user/DangerinDublin
no.to.decauxATgmail.com
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:48 am
Good spot, but there should be traffic lights on the other side as well so its not all in blindness…
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