It's a quiet time of year on the news front so I turned my thoughts today to illegal motorway billboards. These are getting increasingly common along the M1 and other motorways. As far as I remember billboards were banned on main roads years ago for safety reasons. The main problem I have with them is that they're a blot on the landscape. Is it really that difficult to get rid of them? Surely it's a fairly lucrative business too, I wonder if tax is being paid?
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I never hold out too much hope for the enforcement of certain laws when the principal offenders are those charged with making legislation and policy. Yes it's illegal but nothing is ever done. When you consider what Dublin City Council do in relation to roadside visual litter and clutter, and what they intend to allow JC Decaux to do, it's not surprising. If no -one cares about the streets of the Capital, why bother with a motorway through Counties Dublin, MEath and Louth
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Do you know is there a law that this comes under? Visitors to this country must find it a gas. We have ridiculously inadequate road signage and then we have decaying vehicles parked in fields with illegal billboards on them. Maybe the NRA should get those fellas to do their signage?
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Never mind the illegal billboards; what about the sign posts on the M50? All the sign posts are on the left side of the road, yet that's the side that has huge trucks driving in the inside left lane. Unless you know where your exit is you can't see the signs. The trucks block any views you can have of these signs. It really annoys me when I miss an exit because I couldn't see the sign posts
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Gantry signage was put in on the N2, which was a good idea in itself but the NRA made a balls of it. The signs imply that the various lanes filter off at the junctions which they do not.
The illegal billboards are an eyesore though and it's getting a bit out of control. The main place I notice them is on the M1. The density of them is steadily increasing as more buses and trucks reach the end of their useful* lives.
*other than the illegal use.
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This type of advertising is also common practice in the UK where I frequently drive.
But I actually wonder what law is been broken, as all that is taking place is the "parking" of vehicle or trailer on private property
Another joke of Irish motorways is the lack of motorway services - lay-bys with public toilets, restaurants, petrol, etc. You'll find them all over Europe but not here. In particular since much of the M1 and M7/M8 are now motorway you can go long stretches with nowhere to pull in safely. For instance if you're driving from Cork or Limerick to Dublin and get on to the M7 near Portlaoise there's no place to top up with fuel, make a bathroom stop or simply stretch your legs until you get to the outskirts of Dublin (unless you leave the motorway and go into a by-passed town, losing valuable time).
Planning Law has been because you can't put up an advertising sign without it.Originally Posted by Hardball
If you move the vehicle every week then you can get away with it but it will get tackled.
At the moment farmers are happy as getting that extra bit of income but it will end up being clamped down on.
It's tricky. When does a parked vehicle need planning? I have neighbours who lived in caravans for extended periods while their houses were constructed. I had another neighbour who lived in a caravan full time beside her sons house. These probably don't require planning either.
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They do but council turns a blind eye to it.It's tricky. When does a parked vehicle need planning? I have neighbours who lived in caravans for extended periods while their houses were constructed. I had another neighbour who lived in a caravan full time beside her sons house. These probably don't require planning either.
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