328 replies to this topic

[JHHL]

I am totally against placement of portable signs where it would cause inconvenience and put people in danger. But come on.... a permit + decal + annual fee? Does it means if one pays for the fee, he/she is allowed to inconvenience others? My sign is on the lawn, I honest don't think it causes any danger to public. Furthermore a block away, a recycling firm has few sandwich boards out on the lawn warning people of trucks... I guess they will need permit to keep display those signs?

 

[HB]

New signs on CIBC today I wasn't quick enough to get the camera when they were lowering the big letter C down but this is what the new signs look like. Now if they send up a pressure washer to remove the crime that outlines the old sign it will be great.

 

 

[Baro]

Why do they keep changing the logo every few years?  This one isn't even a logo change, it's just a smaller but more colourful version. 

[D.L.]

Thanks HB :-)

 

 

That's such a tacky logo. The old one was the best

 

[Mike K.]

Now I guess we have the rings of Saturn and a Masonic square.

 

I've always wondered why they ditched the chevrons and pillars as such drastic logo changes are uncommon.

[aastra]

 

...if they send up a pressure washer to remove the crime...

 

If only it were so easy...

[eseedhouse]

Nice of you to post a picture of my one and only first ascent on the Chief.  :-)

[Mike K.]

The west facing sign is being installed today and here we have a good view of old and new.

 

[Nparker]

And this folks is why banks charge their customers such exorbitant fees. Just what is this new signage declaring that the old sign did not?

[Bingo]

Victoria Council voted last night to reduce the overall annual fee to $35 dollars.

The previous annual cost was well over $100-dollars.

http://www.cfax1070....street-sign-fee

[VicHockeyFan]

They are offering some retroactive refunds, to the few businesses that had complied.

 

When I walked down Fort yesterday I noted only one sign with the City's legal sticker, 12 without.  I'm guessing all the heat the bylaw people got when they might have started enforcement was behind the change.

[thundergun]

The booster juice in Cook Street Village has three large signs up around the front of their store making each walk by seem like a passive aggressive sales pitch. Hopefully the city takes a stop by there...

[HB]

I guess if they didnt put this DO NOT ENTER  sign up today at the entrance to London Drugs on Vancouver street..... The contractor could be liable to any idiot who couldnt see the mountain of torn up road and drives over it or into it.

 

 

 

 

[Jared]

I'm really not cool with Orange Theory locking the spraypainted bikes around downtown. Those are public bike racks, not advertising space. I hope we aren't subjected to more exploitative marketing stunts.

[VicHockeyFan]

I'm really not cool with Orange Theory locking the spraypainted bikes around downtown. Those are public bike racks, not advertising space. I hope we aren't subjected to more exploitative marketing stunts.

 

Is it any different than a vehicle with business signage, parked legally somewhere?

[HB]

Or bus stops...... they are public spaces filled with larger adveryisements

[Holden West]

When I first saw a beater bike with a flat tire and an all-over paint job I assumed it was the ride of one of our local crack fiends. I'm not sure that is great thing to associate with a fancy gym but I guess any ad campaign that gets people talking and typing is a success.

[http]

Is it any different than a vehicle with business signage, parked legally somewhere?

Not exceptionally, except that they are obviously broken and nobody is (or plans to) use then as transportation.  I seem to recall that a bicylce left for a week was considered derelict by municipal crews.  I think it's akin to leaving an uninsured car on the road instead of in your garage.  It's not the best analogy, I know.

[Mike K.]

Those bikes should be removed and the bill to do so submitted by the City to that gym. There is no reason why this is considered anything other than dumping garbage on municipal property while marketing a business using public infrastructure.

At least with a truck it pays the City and tax payers for the parking stall it uses, or will be fined and/or towed. And unlike a sandwich board that can be put aside if it obstructs pedestrians the orange bikes are immovable without lock cutters and once moved require disposal.

When it comes to marketing a rigid line has to be drawn otherwise we'll have a free-for-all.

[VicHockeyFan]

Those bikes should be removed and the bill to do so submitted by the City to that gym. There is no reason why this is considered anything other than dumping garbage on municipal property while marketing a business using public infrastructure.

At least with a truck it pays the City and tax payers for the parking stall it uses, or will be fined and/or towed. And unlike a sandwich board that can be put aside if it obstructs pedestrians the orange bikes are immovable without lock cutters and once moved require disposal.

When it comes to marketing a rigid line has to be drawn otherwise we'll have a free-for-all.