I’M very amused that “Keep Clear” road signage has been installed in George Street near Durham Street.
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In most towns and cities, “Keep Clear” road signage is generally installed at ambulance or fire stations, but Bathurst has signage to ease access to a liquor store.
The signage highlights a design and approval failure by Bathurst Regional Council in the first instance.
The building's entry and egress points should never have been approved on to one of the busiest intersections in the city.
Worse, it's astounding that semi-trailers making deliveries to the same outlet reverse against the flow of traffic, blocking all traffic westbound in Durham Street.
I've said it before: how is it possible that a new development can create new traffic conflicts?
Bathurst, unfortunately, does it regularly.
Unapproved, unwanted and soon to be removed
I HEAR a whisper that Bathurst Regional Council's new director of environmental, planning and building services Neil Southorn has started a blitz on unapproved signage throughout the city.
This is not before time, as unapproved signage has appeared all over the city and on fences on the entrance ways to Bathurst for some time.
I hear that even some hand-made signs along the Great Western Highway have to be removed.
It’s not so beautiful in the CBD after all these years
I APPRECIATE the angst business owners in Sydney’s George Street have endured while the new light rail system is being constructed.
Bathurst, too, had major issues when the then “CBD Beautification” works started in the early 2000s.
This project, however, has since seemingly stopped dead in its tracks, with no movement in George Street between Howick and Russell Street or Keppel Street.
Unfortunately, if you take a walk around the CBD today, those works are looking very tired: pavers are missing and lifting more often than not.
This so-called CBD Beautification, or CBD Bastardification as I have long called it, was copied from a then outdated model that was popular in Canberra that has dated and aged poorly.
That means only one thing: the city’s ratepayers will be forking out millions to update it soon.
Thumbs Up
COUNCIL’S new environmental, planning and building services director cleaning up unapproved signage throughout the city.
Thumbs Down
CBD Beautification throughout the city looking very dated and ageing poorly.
