cappy0766 Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Is it really necessary to have 2 miles of cones down a dual carriageway, just to protect a 2-foot square hole? I find it a tad excessive and annoying! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 They breed at an alarming rate. I have often thought that the Councils have nowhere to store them all and so they have to store them on the roads. The thing that makes me boil, is the stupid overhead and roadside illuminated signs that impose speed limits and warn about things that happened 24 hours ago. Can't anyone be bothered to keep these things uptodate ? :wacko: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taz24 Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 (edited) Is it really necessary to have 2 miles of cones down a dual carriageway, just to protect a 2-foot square hole?I find it a tad excessive and annoying! You obviously do not realise the importance of that 2 foot hole. Its a special hole :blink: :wacko: I do a lot of motorway driving and on accaisions I have seen police escorting a dignetory or polition of some sort. They have police motorbike outriders a mile in front clearing the outside lane. They then have more police outriders, then about four large rangerovers, a couple of large powerful cars and then bringing up the rear they have a few more motorbike outriders.. Six vehicles, six to eight motorbikes all traveling in excess of 80mph. All this to tranport someone important. taz. Edited March 20, 2008 by taz24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cappy0766 Posted March 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Its bloomin' bananas! They only get laid out at night, by an army of men on £25 an hour at the taxpayers expense! This bugs the hell out of me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Is it really necessary to have 2 miles of cones down a dual carriageway, just to protect a 2-foot square hole?I find it a tad excessive and annoying! You obviously do not realise the importance of that 2 foot hole. Its a special hole :blink: :wacko: I do a lot of motorway driving and on accaisions I have seen police escorting a dignetory or polition of some sort. They have police motorbike outriders a mile in front clearing the outside lane. They then have more police outriders, then about four large rangerovers, a couple of large powerful cars and then bringing up the rear they have a few more motorbike outriders.. Six vehicles, six to eight motorbikes all traveling in excess of 80mph. All this to tranport someone important. taz. Trying hard to think of somebody that important in this country,....... probably a footballer? Ann Robinson?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 is the stupid overhead and roadside illuminated signs that impose speed limits and warn about things that happened 24 hours ago. Or when you have to strain through the fog to read Warning Fog! I don't know why we have such a fasination with cones. I would imagine however, that Cranfieldfascination may be more right than he jests. I'll bet that if all the cones were collected and put in to storage they would not have enough storage space. At the life span of a cone and the amount we use in this country, a wise person would start a cone making company. :wacko: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 And of course with the Bank Holiday approaching, the cones will be out in force this week-end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 is the stupid overhead and roadside illuminated signs that impose speed limits and warn about things that happened 24 hours ago. Or when you have to strain through the fog to read Warning Fog! I don't know why we have such a fasination with cones. I would imagine however, that Cranfieldfascination may be more right than he jests. I'll bet that if all the cones were collected and put in to storage they would not have enough storage space. At the life span of a cone and the amount we use in this country, a wise person would start a cone making company. :wacko: A really wise man would start a company making Enviromentally friendly biodegradable cones that dissolve after three months. That way the loony left councils wuld make traffic deaprtments buy them and you would get repaeat orders every 3 months. Is this the right thread to post that my balls ache :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 The thing that makes me boil, is the stupid overhead and roadside illuminated signs that impose speed limits and warn about things that happened 24 hours ago.Can't anyone be bothered to keep these things uptodate ? :wacko: Don't know if this is true but I have been told by a few people that in order to activate the speed cameras present on de restricted roads they need to put the matrix signs on, which is probably why they get "left" on "accidentally" saying "FOG!" when it's a bright sunny day.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Is this the right thread to post that my balls ache :blink: I don't know, but there seem to be an epidemic of it at the moment! :wacko: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepy Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 In regards to all your comments about the road cones guarding a hole it is all done because there are some motorist that are so dumb who can't read road signs,this is the reason that there maybe a very long approach of cones to certain roadworks. As i work every night in road works we have to have a good leave of safety and safety zones to protect us from the amount of idiot drivers on the road,even with this so called protection you who be amazed at the amount of workers who are killed and injured by motorist who think we are only there to be a complete pain in the ****,also the cones maybe there to allow for material hardening. So please remember that we are there to do a job not for your annoyance the amount of times we have people swearing and throwing items at us is not a joke we are only doing a job of work(I take it that nobody here would run through somebodies office calling them to**ers and throwing bricks at them) Sorry for my rant but if you have to put up with it every day/night you too would soon realize it sometimes ain't no fun being out there Sweepy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackthorn Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 In regards to all your comments about the road cones guarding a hole it is all done because there are some motorist that are so dumb who can't read road signs,this is the reason that there maybe a very long approach of cones to certain roadworks. As i work every night in road works we have to have a good leave of safety and safety zones to protect us from the amount of idiot drivers on the road,even with this so called protection you who be amazed at the amount of workers who are killed and injured by motorist who think we are only there to be a complete pain in the ****,also the cones maybe there to allow for material hardening. So please remember that we are there to do a job not for your annoyance the amount of times we have people swearing and throwing items at us is not a joke we are only doing a job of work(I take it that nobody here would run through somebodies office calling them to**ers and throwing bricks at them) Sorry for my rant but if you have to put up with it every day/night you too would soon realize it sometimes ain't no fun being out there Sweepy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Shaun Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Think of the stopping distance at 70mph and those doing considerably more and you have your answer as to why the cones are so far back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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