Street furniture is provided and maintained by the City for the
protection and convenience of pedestrians.
Posts are employed to fix regulatory and warning signs, although
wherever possible signs are attached to buildings in order to
minimise street clutter. As part of a City-wide wayfinding
programme, new sign posts and “node points” have been erected
throughout the City in order to aid pedestrians locating points of
interest.
The street pattern of the City has changed little since the
seventeenth century but unfortunately the traffic has. In order to
protect pedestrians and the footway surfaces it is often necessary
to position bollards on the kerb edge. These can vary from the
traditional black and red "gun barrel" design (below), through to
the more recent wooden and stainless steel designs.