QMS’s City Of Sydney Installations Dubbed As Pedestrian “Obstructions!”

QMS’s City Of Sydney Installations Dubbed As Pedestrian “Obstructions!”
Mary Madigan
By Mary Madigan



QMS’s latest Sydney street furniture update has been overshadowed by negative feedback from pedestrians.

Street billboards are popping up everywhere, much to the chagrin of some pedestrians. The street signs appear in the middle of footpaths and force people to walk single file like baby ducks following their mother.

Sydney’s city has been hit the hardest with installations in Potts Point, QVB and Surry Hills. Many of the billboard installations are as big as 86 inches, so they aren’t easy to miss.

However, it’s worth noting that B&T understands that QMS’s street furniture would have to pass an approval process from the City of Sydney’s town planning department.

B&T has reached out to QMS, but they have declined to comment

Plus, there’s been an installation of new Telstra phone booths close to street signs that end up obscuring half the view of the billboard.  The Telstra phone booths aren’t from QMS, but the combination of the two isn’t ideal.

The billboards aren’t just ads; the signs also convey council messages. So, updates on things like transport, events and emergencies.

The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that Harold Scruby, head of the Pedestrian Council lobby group, said: “They channel pedestrians into very narrow areas. You can’t walk with a partner; you’ve got to walk like a duck in a single file.

“There should be no obstructions on a footpath.”

Plus, SMH also spoke to a commuter, Michael Evangelidis, who found the advertising on both sides of bus shelters in Sydney’s QVB made it difficult to see when buses were coming or going and said: “Particularly for immobile bus users, it’s pretty bad.”




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    1. My feeling is that citizens who don’t like it should apply small stickers to them, like those super-sticky things they always have in the middle of books that they don’t bother to actually stick on. The illusion of keeping them sticker-and-graffiti free is kept up by frequent cleaning but if enough people express their irritation with them. They can’t track us down and put us in jail for sticking a price tag or sticker to their stupid signs, can they?

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