 | The Metropolitan Region’s newly established “sign crew” have been busy installing signs for Minor Improvement Works on the network. Three crews operate across the Metropolitan area. In just over 12 months, the team has installed 3,510 new signs and removed 1,653 signs, but instead of "improving" the network they are repeating the same old mistakes of the past! |
The bad news is...
The bad news is that these concrete footings are designed as "single - use" foundations meaning 100% of this concrete used is going to landfill. They are "busy" disposing of 1 bag of concrete for each signpost removed and consuming another bag for each new install. Thats 1653 kilos of concrete disposed of (plus surrounding paving) and 3510 kilos consumed in one year! |  |
This is not only a disgusting waste of resources it creates a continuous cycle of damage, waste, expensive ever-increasing repairs, risk of workplace injury working in traffic and with dangerous concrete dust, ever increasing disturbance to traffic and ever increasing consumption of taxpayers dollars - for what? No improvement- in fact each year the city continues to decay and with rapiidurbanisation it is costing drastically more to maintain.
They can easily put an end to damage, waste and expensive repairs thanks to a Western Australian innovation (that was developed in liason with MRWA) used by all major Local Government Authorities that puts and end to this waste indefinitely.
Instead of spending hours digging up the concrete footings and damaged sign impact after imapct- the damaged signs can be simply levered out effortlessly from a standing position, using ergonomic tools, and the footings remain in perfect condition for decades- no disturbance, no waste!
Whilst local government authorities have taken action state government has not, remaining stuck in a continual cycle of costly roadworks (and the cost of these repeated repairs and payouts for workplace injury is in the millions - year after year).
Each year they delays, the workplace injuries, waste, consumption, costs and distrurbance to traffic continues to grow.
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