Another 12 metric 'road hump distance signs' have been removed by the newly-formed London anti-metric cell.
These signs were all located in the Goswell Road/Old Street/City Road 'triangle' and thus are _separate_ from the 5 London Borough of Islington signs removed previously (see 'battle board).

For the record, the metric sign distances that were removed were as follows:

1 x 60mtrs
1 x 100mtrs
1 x 140mtrs
1 x 150mtrs
1 x 190mtrs
1 x 210mtrs
1 x 230mtrs
1 x 240mtrs
2 x 330mtrs
1 x 390mtrs.

According to photgraphs showed to us by a BWMA supporter, this still leaves a further 4 signs in the area that we were unable to locate and deal with. For the record, then, we believe there are at last 4 remaining metric signs in that triangle, with the following metric distances:

2 x 150mtrs
1 x 330mtrs
1 x 600mtrs.

We would be grateful if the exact locations of these 4, and any other, metric signs in the area, could be posted on the 'battle board'.

The signs are undamaged and in safe custody and we shall be informing Islington Council shortly that the signs have been removed so that they can go ahead and replace them with signs which conform with the law of the land.

Northampton had erected 18 metric (road hump) signs. Islington has erected at least 21, making it the 'worst' metric local authority in Britain to date, that we are aware of.

Dozens of people, if not hundreds, witnessed the removal of the metric signs; only one comment was received from a passer-by: "Got the hump, have we?"

'Hundredweight'

Two metric signs on Wharf Road/St. Peter's Street, Islington, one saying 'Humps for 380 mtrs' and one saying 'Humps for 460 mtrs' were removed in a recent raid, bringing the total removed in the City Road/Old Street area to 19. They are now in a safe place

'Hundredweight'

An area of half a square mile between Arsenal Football Club and Finsbury Park Station has been metrically cleansed by the removal of all 26 metric signs in the area. The signs, some of them 'double' with two metric distances on the same post pointing to road humps in both directions from a junction, have also had the metric distances over-painted in metallic black paint and removed to a safe location.

It is proposed to return them to the home address of a Conservative Councillor in the Borough concerned.

We hoped to remove more signs in the Holloway Road and Angel, Islington areas but bad light stopped play at around 7.55pm - back another day

'Hundredweight'

Following enquiries by Islington Council about the whereabouts of the signs which had been removed, members of London Signswatch today returned 37 signs (which had been stored in a safe place) to the care of Islington Council. Of these, 26 were left neatly arranged on a grassy bank in Finsbury Park (with the metric distances painted out, of course), to read a gigantic 'NO'. Later, 11 more signs were delivered to the Islington Council offices at Devonia Road, Islington, also with the metric distances obliterated. There are now a lot of 'hump' signs in Islington with no distances underneath them

Members of North London Signswatch

First of all, you missed one at the beginning of Prah Road, leading off Rock Street, that leads off Blackstock Road, not only did you miss one at the end of Chatterton Road (between Gillespie Road and Monsell Road), pointing up and down Plimsoll Road. Likewise with Camden, I reported those signs to Islington last summer, and they were very slow to deal with them. Did you also get the one on Eburne Road, that leads off Seven Sisters Road, running next to Holloway Road from near Nag's Head? "No right turn at Holloway Road 130m ahead. They did do a survey on all of the hump signs in the borough, and were taking ages to do much about them. Best of luck for the campaign.

Following the message from Mr F Rodriguez, the first two signs will be removed and the third removed or amended at the earliest opportunity

North London Signswatch