This website catalogues my effort over four years to get someone
to do something about the obvious problem with the installation of clearway signs.
Emails and replies from everyone I contacted, to get some commonsense are on four years of posts.
When I first emailed the then Road Minister Duncan Gay, I thought, (silly me) because it was such an obvious problem, it would receive immediate attention.
From: Hans Stephens <stephens1510@optusnet.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2016 8:57 PM
To: 'office@gay.minister.nsw.gov.au' <office@gay.minister.nsw.gov.au>
Subject: : RMS installation incompetence
Dear Minister Gay,
I recently saw you on TV and you mentioned the new clearway times and the new signage between Blakehurst and Sutherland. The new clearway times have made a difference to traffic flow,
but the Hi-Vis yellow clearway signs I’m afraid are an eyesore, and to make matters worse the majority are now adopting jaunty angles. The signs are attached to a bracket with 2 bolts but the bracket is fastened to the power pole or its own metal pole with one bolt, so if the sign isn’t tightened correctly, it can pivot on the single bolt as can be seen in my photos.
There are old white clearway signs I’ve seen, also at angles, and are also fastened with one bolt.
A rethink in the fastening department is warranted. The bracket used now is over engineering and might have been good enough for the DMR and RTA but common sense is required in this age o f” innovation”
What is wrong with a Tech screw, top and bottom of the sign, fastened to the power pole using an 18 volt impact screw driver.
In the big scheme of things this is small potatoes, but 5 klms of these gaudy bright yellow (near new) clearway signs at crazy angles advertise, in Hi Vis for all to see , RMS incompetence.
Please get someone from the relevant department to have a look and get the job done right.
Last Sunday I drove to Church Point and noticed new Hi-Vis yellow clearway signs on Mona Vale through the West Ryde /Top Ryde area, that weren’t there Boxing day. and some of these signs are already adopting less than professional angles.
Regards
Hans Stephens
(address details)
Duncan Gay MP
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As Minister Gay retired, I emailed the Premier and received this reply
The RMS clearway sign erection dysfunction was becoming more and more obvious as this earlier page shows
As there was no luck with Mr Gay, I tried the next Road Minister Melinda Pavey with an email
Melinda Pavey MP
I emailed her Sydney Office, rang her Sydney office, emailed her Kempsey Electoral office, rang her Kempsey office (a number of times) I sent Ms Pavey a stamped letter with no luck.
http://www.schoolzonesanta.com/index.php/the-clever-country
All I recieved back were replies starting with " on behalf of the Minister" even the stamped letter.
http://www.schoolzonesanta.com/index.php/from-the-nsw-premier-s
In frustration I asked my local MP Mr Lee Evans to walk up the corridor to speak to the then Road Minister Ms Pavey to ask to look at this website.
I don't know if he did what I requested, as I have had no more contact from Mr Evans MP, apart from brochures in the mail with lots of photos of him doing good works,
Mr. Lee Evans MP
I understand that it's staff that first reads emails, and who answer phone calls, and reply "on behalf of".
So do the Ministers above, hire the wrong people?
I rang Ms Pavey's Kempsey Electoral office, thinking someone there could have a private word to Ms Pavey about this bloke that has this web site and worries about taxpayer money being wasted.
One lady who answered the phone at Kempsey clicked on my site, and after I explained about the one bolt problem, she asked me."Why don't they use two bolts?"
"FIRST BASE"
It's very simple, the old white clearway signs (above) clearly did not stay up horizontal.
When someone decided to go from white to Hi-Vis yellow clearway signs, they used the the old brackets, and what happened?
They did place one of the two on a new pipe pole
The full story, and the mysterious disappearance of the new pole is on
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UPDATE 22 /2/22
This photo of the same sign taken 24 FEB this year, there are so many more out there like this
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The next photos are of a sign put up in Taren Point that I noticed flapping in the breeze last week.
As per new rules " for the safety of
maintainence crews" the signs now, aren't drilled into poles
Like using the handy one on the left,
but it is sort of attached, no doubt to,
" Australian Standards"
using 5 "Australian Standards" cable ties.
