Blackpool rainbow road crossing

They are doing it for virtue signalling reasons, however it does brighten up the street. They should actually pain't more houses in different colours, just because it looks better than a depressing monotone.

People saying though people now don't have to stop as it's not an officially recognised zebra crossing and could cause issues for visually impaired etc.

Kids love rainbows so they don't just belong to a certain a section of society.

But it's popular to virtue signal for that section of society, try and get something for other reasons and it'll likely be ignored as it doesn't secure them brownie points.
 
What a virtue signaling waste of council tax money, which increases year on year.
Is the crossing even legal now?
Definition: Zebra crossings are marked by black and white painted strips across the road and flashing amber globes called 'Belisha beacons.
 
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Let's hope there no accidents at any, is it even a legal crossing?

Nice to see colour going in but not sure this is the best use of it...

Should paint sections of the town tangerine.
 
Looks great! Let’s sack of zebra crossings and have rainbow crossings everywhere 😁🌈
 
BFC4EVA said:
Surely that’s not a proper zebra crossing is it ???
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Actually it's not a zebra crossing that one, it's at traffic lights. So just where people cross and people would still have to press the button etc. Hopefully there's no confusion there for cars etc.
 
straightatthewall said:
How much would this cost and could the money REALLY be put to better use? Let's not forget that the LGBTQ community puts a lot of money into Blackpool's economy.
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Money is put into separate pots to be spent on specific things. Pointless people moaning it could be spent on potholes as this money isn't for that and won't be moved
 
The pink pound is worth a lot, I think the council are trying to attract gay people to the town by promoting the 'gay village' around Dickson Road - they have done a few other things as well. If it worked to the maximum it would see a gentrification of a run down area and an influx of disposable income. It's a good strategy IMO but I am not sure painting a few things on the road will kick start what they are hoping for, they would need to think of something more dynamic and no doubt more costly.
 
straightatthewall said:
How much would this cost and could the money REALLY be put to better use? Let's not forget that the LGBTQ community puts a lot of money into Blackpool's economy.
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16k I got told could be bull.

I don't actually mind it but there's a hell of a long way to go to sort that area of town out.
Some of the buildings are dumps and the majority of bars awful.

Have the Gay community got the will or money to make it a Gay Village as it can't be left all to the council painting the odd road.
Not sure.
 
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poolseasider said:
16k I got told could be bull.

I don't actually mind it but there's a hell of a long way to go to sort that area of town out.
Some of the buildings are dumps and the majority of bars awful.

Have the Gay community got the will or money to make it a Gay Village as it can't be left all to the council painting the odd road.
Not sure.
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£16K won't be far off, any work of this nature doesn't come cheap nowadays.
Manchester did an excellent job in creating their village. However, success on a similar scale in this deprived area of Blackpool will cost multi-millions and be reliant on business partners heavily investing.
Good luck to the council in their endeavors, as a development on that scale, in that area of town, will help to enhance the town & bring a major boost to the local economy.
 
straightatthewall said:
Indeed. And even if there was the flexibility to choose where to spend this, it will be a relatively small spend that would probably equate to a few potholes max.
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The funding used for this project was specifically designated for enhancing public spaces and isn’t money that can be used for regular highway maintenance. The highways team prioritise works for over 300 miles of roads in the town based on a condition survey. Any issues on the roads can be reported but may (will) be left. The zebra crossings cost a rumoured £2,500 each. Not sure on the junction of Dixon/Springfield
 
Lewis_Winthorpe said:
The funding used for this project was specifically designated for enhancing public spaces and isn’t money that can be used for regular highway maintenance. The highways team prioritise works for over 300 miles of roads in the town based on a condition survey. Any issues on the roads can be reported but may (will) be left. The zebra crossings cost a rumoured £2,500 each. Not sure on the junction of Dixon/Springfield
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Perhaps the bigger irony here is that the gay community love pot holing.
 
Looks good, it'll look shit in a few months though.

Can someone please come and clean the streets, I don't mention it much...
 
No issue with rainbow zebra crossings but the WHOLE of Dickson Road is a shytehole and should be demolished from town to Gynn square.
 
Yep shouldn't have happened but was pretty predictable given the reaction and it seemed to go viral so far more knew about it than read a standard gazette article.

This type of virtue signalling is never popular and is always for minorities.

Even if the council had done it more broadly, saying they'd paint one near the stadium tangerine, one here one there for many different things that might have come across a bit better, but it still would have got the responses of... why concentrate on this, fix the pot holes. That's another issue, people get angry seeing stuff like this with poor roads, even if the cost is minute, it screams of priorities.

There are murals not far from these rainbows that seem fairly untouched for years, they'd probably be better putting something on buildings rather that the street.

Saying that, it was only a rainbow and did brighten up the street, that community doesn't own the rainbow, kids love it too, so could have just gone with it.

The rainbows were done as part of the be who you want to be scheme, maybe whoever did it just identified as a petty criminal 🙄
 
JJpool said:
I bet that wouldn't be allowed though would it, might offend someone.

That's what annoys people about all this inclusivity shite, it seems to only be when it's about including minorities or whatever the popular agenda is.
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Those crappy mini roundabouts would be fair game too!!
 
Actually, AVFTT has come up with a solid idea for once.

We could have a whole series of themed zebra crossings throughout the town, the theme could be pertinent for where the crossing is.

That way the rainbow crossing wouldn't look like overly focusing only on a minority but just part of a wider town approach. The crossings would be selfie bait as well as points of interest.

We could have a BFC crossing, a tower crossing, rainbow crossing, a golf crossing, a theater crossing a bit like Chicago did with those painted cows.
 
Foolweary said:
Actually, AVFTT has come up with a solid idea for once.

We could have a whole series of themed zebra crossings throughout the town, the theme could be pertinent for where the crossing is.

That way the rainbow crossing wouldn't look like overly focusing only on a minority but just part of a wider town approach. The crossings would be selfie bait as well as points of interest.

We could have a BFC crossing, a tower crossing, rainbow crossing, a golf crossing, a theater crossing a bit like Chicago did with those painted cows.
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…..or we could leave a universally recognisable safe road crossings as they are and spend money where it’s actually needed…🤷🏻‍♂️
 
Foolweary said:
Actually, AVFTT has come up with a solid idea for once.

We could have a whole series of themed zebra crossings throughout the town, the theme could be pertinent for where the crossing is.

That way the rainbow crossing wouldn't look like overly focusing only on a minority but just part of a wider town approach. The crossings would be selfie bait as well as points of interest.

We could have a BFC crossing, a tower crossing, rainbow crossing, a golf crossing, a theater crossing a bit like Chicago did with those painted cows.
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And for those fretting about the cost we could have a zebra crossing outside the zoo.
Wouldn’t cost a penny.
 
The world has gone mad.

To see some of these people prancing about in minimal coverings of their manhood (if I'm allowed to say that), when they have a carnival, yet if I were to wander around in my underwear, I would no doubt be arrested. Then these awful rainbow crossings , in my mind, doesn't mean inclusivity or recognition, it rather blares out, we want to do as we please, but you can't.

I am a believer in equality whether black , brown, white, male female, LGBT etc, Queer (I believe this is now acceptable) or whatever anyone wants to be so long as it's legal, but to focus on one particular type of person has the opposite effect of division as can be seen in the comments on this board.

I give up, I honestly do!
 
Always tangerine said:
Yes , spotted the news about the defacing on the BBC website, doesn't improve Blackpool' s image.
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It's funny the level of focus it's given isn't it though, paint some colour around the town usually no media cares and there's graffiti all the time that gets zero press. But I guess this suits the narrative.
 
Foolweary said:
Actually, AVFTT has come up with a solid idea for once.

We could have a whole series of themed zebra crossings throughout the town, the theme could be pertinent for where the crossing is.

That way the rainbow crossing wouldn't look like overly focusing only on a minority but just part of a wider town approach. The crossings would be selfie bait as well as points of interest.

We could have a BFC crossing, a tower crossing, rainbow crossing, a golf crossing, a theater crossing a bit like Chicago did with those painted cows.
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Hang on, that's not AVFTT, that's mine 😃

But it's right though isn't it? If these crossings are allowed then why just focus on on minority community?

As said if there were BFC ones, Blackpool related ones etc, I doubt people would mind quite as much.

We'd still see vandalism on some but it wouldn't generate the media interest and you'd of course still get the... focus on the potholes shouts.

I'd rather buildings were painted tangerine etc tbh.
 
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