Motoring Discussion > Big white "O"s - Miscellaneous
Thread Author: IJWS14 Replies: 19
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 Wed 28 May 14 08:36 
 Big white "O"s - - IJWS14
Solihull are re-doing part of the A452 Chester Road and it appears to be moving from 50mph 2 lane dual to 30mph one lane dual with cycle lanes and bus pull offs.

Now at points along the road large white "O"s about 8 feet high have appeared in the remaining lane (They might be zeros).

Anyone have any idea what these are for? Streetview won't help as they have just appeared and the council have not finished work yet.
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 Wed 28 May 14 08:57 
 Big white "O"s - - Clk Sec
Letter "O"s, or "O"s for a gate, perhaps...

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 Wed 28 May 14 09:10 
 Big white "O"s - - BiggerBadderDave
pantie "O"s?
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 Wed 28 May 14 09:00 
 Big white "O"s - - Cliff Pope

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>> Now at points along the road large white "O"s about 8 feet high have appeared
>> in the remaining lane

I can't quite picture these. Do you drive through them, or around them?
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 Wed 28 May 14 09:47 
 Big white "O"s - - legacylad
Garden O's ?
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 Wed 28 May 14 09:47 
 Big white "O"s - - Manatee
You won't get a standard caravan through a 8' high O.

They've always had airs in Solihull, probably trying to keep the riffraff out.
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 Wed 28 May 14 10:01 
 Big white "O"s - - Clk Sec
Stockbroker belt, don't you know...
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 Wed 28 May 14 10:08 
 Big white "O"s - - Runfer D'Hills
Someone should break it to them that the Olympics were in 2012 and that London got them...

Bless.
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 Wed 28 May 14 11:10 
 Big white "O"s - - Auristocrat
Due to the numbers of polluting four wheel drive vehicles in the area, the amount of O zone has increased
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 Wed 28 May 14 11:24 
 Big white "O"s - - Auristocrat
Solihull MBC are introducing 30 and 40mph speed limits on part of the Chester Road (reduced from 50mph), with 20mph speed limits and speed tables on some side roads (Carisbrooke Avenue, Craig Croft, Dunster Road, Hedingham Grove and Pomeroy Way). Also permanent cycle lanes, waiting restrictions and U turn prohibitions on the Chester Road in this area are to be implemented.
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 Wed 28 May 14 11:45 
 Big white "O"s - - Cliff Pope
Here's one that's fallen over:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350015/Ridiculous-looking-road-markings-left-workmen-repaint-word-SLOW.html
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 Wed 28 May 14 11:53 
 Big white "O"s - - Runfer D'Hills
Maybe the bloke who does the 3s, 4s and 5s is off sick?
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 Wed 28 May 14 12:43 
 Big white "O"s - - IJWS14
Too much to expect you lot to be serious,

Need a special kind of car to drive through them, mine goes over the top. Good job they are laid flat on the road.
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 Wed 28 May 14 16:53 
 Big white "O"s - - Ted

Perhaps they've run out of S,L and W...although they could use an upside down M at a pinch.
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 Wed 28 May 14 18:45 
 Big white "O"s - - Alastairw
Would they be the first stage of marking the limit on the road? ie: might they put '30' inside each circle at some point.
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 Thu 29 May 14 08:15 
 Big white "O"s - - IJWS14
>> Would they be the first stage of marking the limit on the road? ie: might
>> they put '30' inside each circle at some point.
>>

Possibly - but why not put the 30 in when they do the circle? Perhaps to avoid the outcry?

Road was 50 but has had a temporary 30 in place since the works started. I had wondered if the limit would drop permanently.
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 Thu 29 May 14 08:18 
 Big white "O"s - - Cliff Pope

>>
>> Possibly - but why not put the 30 in when they do the circle?

Because that would mean standing on the wet paint.
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 Wed 28 May 14 21:32 
 Big white "O"s - - Harleyman
>>
>> Perhaps they've run out of S,L and W...although they could use an upside down M
>> at a pinch.
>>

Leave it the right way up and chop the top off the "O". It might be the posh bit of Brum but it's still Brum.
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 Wed 28 May 14 18:52 
 Big white "O"s - - Auristocrat
Just wondered whether the speed limits could be variable with the first digit being removable - one day the 0 could have a 2 in front, the next day a 3 ......

Have you noticed any large 2's and 3's at the side of the road?
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 Thu 29 May 14 08:16 
 Big white "O"s - - IJWS14
>> Just wondered whether the speed limits could be variable with the first digit being removable
>> - one day the 0 could have a 2 in front, the next day a
>> 3 ......
>>
>> Have you noticed any large 2's and 3's at the side of the road?
>>

This is Chelmsley Wood. Anything not secured isn't there when you go back for it.
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