My fish'n'chip supper was seriously impeded tonight by an obstructive disused telephone box outside Kentmans in Kirkdale.
You may recall these strange orange beasts invaded our streets a year or two ago. The operator 'interphone' has presumably gone bust. They are now festering rubbish dumps obstructing the pavement and people trying to get onto the pavement. They are an eyesore and a health hazard.
Why are they still there? Who is responsible for removing them and when will this happen? Time for true Sydenhamites to reclaim their streets I feel.
Do I have to hire a JCB or is there a better solution?
Telephone Box Eyesore
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Muddy Waters
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Pity the disused orange telephone box outside Woodfalls the Optician in Sydenham Road didn't take a hard knock when the Adshell outside Lloyds Bank was destroyed by a car recently!
I agree these are useless eyesores and in the case of the one in Sydenham Road provide easy fly posting sites. I think we should be asking our local councillors to do something about getting them removed - there is enough street clutter as it is.
I agree these are useless eyesores and in the case of the one in Sydenham Road provide easy fly posting sites. I think we should be asking our local councillors to do something about getting them removed - there is enough street clutter as it is.
This weekend someone appears to have demolished the reinforced concrete sign at the Golden Lion. Must have caused considerable damage. What is going on?Muddy Waters wrote:Pity the disused orange telephone box outside Woodfalls the Optician in Sydenham Road didn't take a hard knock when the Adshell outside Lloyds Bank was destroyed by a car recently!
Good news it has gone. Bad news - we have got another one. Story here:Muddy Waters wrote:Pity the disused orange telephone box outside Woodfalls the Optician in Sydenham Road didn't take a hard knock when the Adshell outside Lloyds Bank was destroyed by a car recently!
http://www.sydenham.org.uk/news_phone_box.html
Interphone
It wasn't Central payphones,Infolines or IPM's fault that these kiosks were left in this state.
The goverment (Oftel/ofcom) changed the conditions of entitlement suddenly in 1999 and 2002. Because of these changes, the companies had to pay a hell of a lot more tax rates to the goverment and since that mobile usage increased vastly in 2002, Infolines could not afford to pay employees,maintain kiosks,pay expensive taxes and pay BT line rental for each payphone.
The goverment should of helped Infolines for the Interphone street operation. Oftel also admitted to this too!
Infolines operated more public street payphones in London than NWP Spectrum and BT and the goverment and local authorities should of helped them, otherwise it just forces companies like Interphone into recievership which means that abandoned street furniture will be left!
NWP Spectrum has operated public payphones on streets since 1996 and has done a very good job at operating such services. The company is now called Spectrum Interactive plc with it's street division called 'NWP Street Limited'. The company purchased 1,000 kiosks from interphone in 2004 and has replaced them with 750 new black and some red kiosks, the remaining 350 kiosks were completely removed by Spectrum. 372 interphone kiosks were left for local councils to clear up and 187 kiosks were continued to be used by Central payphones until May 2005 which were in Manchester.
Infolines public Networks was purchased by 4 Kiosk Solutions and operates e-top up machines,payphones and interactive units. 4 Kiosk Solutions said they may install facilities in streets, they currently cover the midlands and will soon move to London.
This problem will happen everytime companies upgrade to new technology.
The goverment (Oftel/ofcom) changed the conditions of entitlement suddenly in 1999 and 2002. Because of these changes, the companies had to pay a hell of a lot more tax rates to the goverment and since that mobile usage increased vastly in 2002, Infolines could not afford to pay employees,maintain kiosks,pay expensive taxes and pay BT line rental for each payphone.
The goverment should of helped Infolines for the Interphone street operation. Oftel also admitted to this too!
Infolines operated more public street payphones in London than NWP Spectrum and BT and the goverment and local authorities should of helped them, otherwise it just forces companies like Interphone into recievership which means that abandoned street furniture will be left!
NWP Spectrum has operated public payphones on streets since 1996 and has done a very good job at operating such services. The company is now called Spectrum Interactive plc with it's street division called 'NWP Street Limited'. The company purchased 1,000 kiosks from interphone in 2004 and has replaced them with 750 new black and some red kiosks, the remaining 350 kiosks were completely removed by Spectrum. 372 interphone kiosks were left for local councils to clear up and 187 kiosks were continued to be used by Central payphones until May 2005 which were in Manchester.
Infolines public Networks was purchased by 4 Kiosk Solutions and operates e-top up machines,payphones and interactive units. 4 Kiosk Solutions said they may install facilities in streets, they currently cover the midlands and will soon move to London.
This problem will happen everytime companies upgrade to new technology.