Poles

Next to the green box noticed at the last post, there was a sturdy grey box, without asset tag. And next to the grey box was a newly erected brown pole, more or less a twin to a white version on Christchurch Road, on the edge of Epsom Common, a white version which I think belongs to BT.

A brown pole to which a temporary asset tag has been pasted, including an emergency telephone number but which the weather will soak off before too long. Do Vodafone plan on affixing a proper tag in due course?

But what struck me particularly was that this pole, presumably steel inside, had been finished with a thick layer of brown plastic, embossed or textured to give it something of the appearance of a wooden telegraph pole. Much the same sort of plastic as that noticed more than three years ago at reference 1 and still in place at the Ashtead end of the London platforms of Epsom Station.

So whose idea was it that steel telephone poles, instead of being finished in decent white paint, in the way of BT, should be decorated as telegraph poles? Some graduate of our university of creation?

And à propos of the concerns voiced at reference 2, at least this grey box is on the grass side of the sidewalk, so at least a few feet away from the road and so a little less likely to be put out of action by a passing motor vehicle.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/diy-time-at-network-rail.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/trust-again.html.