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Post by galwhv69 on May 13, 2021 10:16:17 GMT
Not a waste of money if it does the job and boosts tourism.... and, unlike some philistines here, I am delighted by the artwork😊 How is it going to boost tourism, seems like a joke more than anything else. The artwork would be more at place in a public toilets. At the Crown & Treaty in Uxbridge
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Post by Dillon95 on May 13, 2021 11:30:24 GMT
I can assure you it won’t take an arts appreciation interest to tell these are utterly crap. They are entirely juvenile and just screams two minutes on Microsoft Paint. Zero thought, zero effort and probably cost a fortune. I’d appreciate it if it was done as part of a competition for school kids as for a 5 year old it would look good but for a world renowned artist it just looks awful. David Hockney played a blinder if he managed to convince anyone that was good artwork. Honestly my cat could have done a better painting and he would have charged a lot less. What a total waste of money and if I was the sponsor I’d be asking for a refund. I seriously hope the GLA members rinse Kahn for this one, not a great start to a second term. The person London elected as mayor seems to have enthusiastically appreciated it in his tweet, so he has convinced someone! He needs to make an appointment to get himself a pair of milk bottle bifocals then.
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Post by vjaska on May 13, 2021 11:38:08 GMT
I still can’t understand how a drawing of a roundel increases tourism over something like an actual advert showing off certain things in & around London
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Post by M1104 on May 13, 2021 12:18:16 GMT
I still can’t understand how a drawing of a roundel increases tourism over something like an actual advert showing off certain things in & around London Indeed! If anything the official roundels would be more of an attraction, one example being when my relatives from the USA all posed around one of the North Greenwich roundels on the Jubilee Line platform after being told about Greenwich Mean Time...plus it was their first time on the tube itself.
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Post by galwhv69 on May 13, 2021 12:22:51 GMT
I still can’t understand how a drawing of a roundel increases tourism over something like an actual advert showing off certain things in & around London Simple Answer : It doesn't Lomg Answer : It still doesn't
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Post by richard on May 13, 2021 19:47:24 GMT
Somthing that surprised me is that a first Yorkshire merto decker has a London bus route on the blinds N26 to Walthamstow 👇
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on May 13, 2021 19:50:01 GMT
Somthing that surprised me is that a first Yorkshire merto decker has a London bus route on the blinds N26 to Walthamstow 👇 This bus was previously with HCT Group which would explain the blinds
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Post by Dillon95 on May 20, 2021 12:19:28 GMT
Out of interest, how comes they removed the school route number tiles from bus stops last year and replaced them with ‘School Buses Stop Here’ tiles?
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Post by SILENCED on May 20, 2021 13:01:40 GMT
Out of interest, how comes they removed the school route number tiles from bus stops last year and replaced them with ‘School Buses Stop Here’ tiles? Do not know, but imagine cost saving. As soon as it has a tile for one route, does not need changing ... unless last school route withdrawn.
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Post by kmkcheng on May 20, 2021 13:16:14 GMT
Out of interest, how comes they removed the school route number tiles from bus stops last year and replaced them with ‘School Buses Stop Here’ tiles? Wasn’t it to stop the general public from using them? Maybe once the buses can go back to full capacity they may open them back up to the public and start putting the route numbers back on the stops
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Post by vjaska on May 20, 2021 13:40:18 GMT
Out of interest, how comes they removed the school route number tiles from bus stops last year and replaced them with ‘School Buses Stop Here’ tiles? It was to do with the introduction of school extras as kmkcheng eluded to and not every bus stop had it's school routes removed as I noticed in West London the other day
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Post by Dillon95 on May 20, 2021 13:42:42 GMT
Out of interest, how comes they removed the school route number tiles from bus stops last year and replaced them with ‘School Buses Stop Here’ tiles? It was to do with the introduction of school extras as kmkcheng eluded to and not every bus stop had it's school routes removed as I noticed in West London the other day A weird anomaly lies in St Paul’s Cray/St Mary Cray with the ‘Kent School Buses Stop Here’ tiles for Go Coach school routes from Sevenoaks.
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Post by wirewiper on May 21, 2021 9:13:22 GMT
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Post by Dillon95 on May 21, 2021 11:47:04 GMT
I mean, in a better world this is a Tram line.
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Post by galwhv69 on May 21, 2021 16:57:47 GMT
Out of interest, how comes they removed the school route number tiles from bus stops last year and replaced them with ‘School Buses Stop Here’ tiles? Wasn’t it to stop the general public from using them? Maybe once the buses can go back to full capacity they may open them back up to the public and start putting the route numbers back on the stops I'm currently looking at a journey to Potters Bar on the TfL planner, it would rather I use the 699 (not knowing whether I'm an adult or child) than the train to Potters Bar! Bit of a waste of money to remove tiles if TfL still suggests the routes to people Edit : I give up with the garbage thing, it thinks that South Mimms is in Crawley
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