New tag: I can't believe that no one has done this one yet. But I checked the map and maps don't lie. I'll give you a clue if you really need it, but loads of you should know where this is.
These fun-lovin' go-getters used to be in the middle of a roundabout. This is how they appear on streetview.
ah that's where I've seen them. they removed the roundabout and made a normal junction. not sure where they moved this trio to.
Local art critic, O Schick, asked the council to remove the sculpture and roundabout. So the council took out the roundabout but forgot to trash the sculpture.
Ha, we certainly didn't ask them to trash the sculpture. The plan was always to move it to the side of the junction, where, as it's a 'flat', almost two-dimensional sculpture, I think it works far better, anyway, than it did in the centre of the roundabout. It's now on the only side of the junction where there's no medium-term prospect of restoring some active frontage, and it still points the way to the market. The junction used to have an important role as the focal point of a local centre (with a pub and post office), and more active frontage will be essential to that. We're very pleased that this scheme has been done.
There's some work left to do in the area on the east-west rat-running which has led some people to consider the new priority arrangements to be somewhat dicey (north-south priority at first wasn't well-respected by the east-west rat-runners; I think the situation has settled down a little, but no reason not to further calm the local area).
Anyway, great tag again--I like the new one, too. Just keep it distinctive!
Ha, we certainly didn't ask them to trash the sculpture. The plan was always to move it to the side of the junction, where, as it's a 'flat', almost two-dimensional sculpture, I think it works far better, anyway, than it did in the centre of the roundabout. It's now on the only side of the junction where there's no medium-term prospect of restoring some active frontage, and it still points the way to the market. The junction used to have an important role as the focal point of a local centre (with a pub and post office), and more active frontage will be essential to that. We're very pleased that this scheme has been done.
There's some work left to do in the area on the east-west rat-running which has led some people to consider the new priority arrangements to be somewhat dicey (north-south priority at first wasn't well-respected by the east-west rat-runners; I think the situation has settled down a little, but no reason not to further calm the local area).
Anyway, great tag again--I like the new one, too. Just keep it distinctive!