Taxi stand - camp signage

[playastewart]

I'm trying to make a taxi stand for in front of Mobility Camp for my pedi taxi service. I've gone back and forth on designs and how to get it staked into the ground.
Making a true taxi stand sign would be cool, but that would involve using some sort of fence post digging to get that way into the playa and then maybe some guy lines.

Anyone have experience with getting signs posted in the ground? Thanks for the advice. Here are a few concepts I came up with.
I think the second design would be easier to stake in, but the first one is more of the traditional taxi stand look.
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[Canoe]

• Since you won't be there to babysit it, consider the wind and people hanging/falling onto it: lag screws are the secure and safest way to attach it to the playa.
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• Traditional taxi post may seem nice, but you don't want anything that can twist in a heavy wind. As in, 45mph, 75 mph or even 100 mph.
• In the second design, if you don't need the board going all the way to the ground, then don't, for less of a sail area.
  That shape looks like a wind trap?
• If you need the vertical height, perhaps three vertical panels, joined into a triangle, to shed wind.
  Decorate two sides with "MOBILITY TAXI", with the third also showing the schedule?
  Panels attached by hinges, a cap could quickly screw on top, and hold a small PV panel and hazard light. You could even slope the panels to shed more wind.
• Avoid bare wood, due to moop.

[Sham]

Have you considered using PVC pipe and painting it silver to appear to be a metal pole?
You could then attach a real taxi stand sign to that. There would be very little wind resistance to that.

[Canoe]

Low wind on the pole.
But not the sign. You won't want it twisting/oscillating in the wind.
Still have to mount the pole (but it could be on a plate that screws to the playa, if the mount can take the load...).

[Canoe]

p.s.
I saw your bike & sidecar in your fundraiser post. Looks interesting.
Don't be shy about mounting a pole with lights (a strobe?) and flag(s) on that. Get them up at driver height for art cars, so they can't miss it in the dark or if you're stopped in a dust blow and they're stupidly still driving.

Depending on how located it will be in traffic, you could even do the same with a shorter pole out the stop of your taxi stand.

strobe & flag on paint-extension pole.jpg

[some seeing eye]

Playastewart, cool project!

From a design standpoint you might consider:
With only one sign, on the center camp ring, the chance of the sign or lighting being stolen is less than if the signs were scattered around the city. Nonetheless, plan for replacements. If they were scattered around the city, having camps, especially with alterabled participants, could be taxi stops, and sign watchers. Camps might need replacements for stolen signs. More camps accommodating alterabled participants would be a fine evolution of the event!

Smaller whiteboards put below a larger announcement should work for the updating.

Give Mobility Camp a cheap/disposable camera to capture people posing in front of the sign. Even non-alterabled burners. Document your project, including on-vehicle interviews and videos with your playa explorers. Read up on releases, privacy, contact Media Mecca if you go that route.

No one is really going to care about the base of the sign esthetics. The wind on a sign with a backing a camp/rest of city on the center camp ring that is 8 feet high is not going to be designed for max winds.

You could always screen print the sign on a flexy piece of HD milk white polyethylene, and bring spares. That sheet is a common item at your local T- plastics franchise. Milk carton material, but say 2-3x thicker.

You could also make an entirely silhouette cutout design which wind blows through. Like an ePlayan Robbi Dobbs-style logo above and just Free Taxi under it. Maker spaces in your city can laser, route or water jet cut plastic, aluminum, steel and plywood. But bring spares if stolen and leave contact/return info and a guilt message on each in small print if they are stolen.

Your might team with mobility camp and BMORG on an ability-enabling transportation MURS radio channel and equipment for those needing.

Spread the word through the mobility camp and social media you are providing this gift; don't be 100% dependent on the sign.

Finally, consider discussing with the Airport if they need to-from for people needing a team of mobility partners. If they need, that would be a story!

Hey, thanks for your project!

[playastewart]

Oh my! I never even saw these and I thought no one replied to me. Sorry.

So what I decided to go with was a sort of sandwich-board design but the back I used flag pole holders (these are awesome) and wood dowels. Worked great in all that wind. Thanks for the suggestions, I think I will re-engineer it using some of your suggestions but it withstood the palaya beatings well. I think lag screws with aluminum poles would be great. Lemme see if I can find a pic.

Oh and FYI, markers dry out. Whiteboard signs dont work well in the sun, unless you are going to put the markers in the shade or replace them everyday.

[playastewart]

Playastewart, cool project!

From a design standpoint you might consider:
With only one sign, on the center camp ring, the chance of the sign or lighting being stolen is less than if the signs were scattered around the city. Nonetheless, plan for replacements. If they were scattered around the city, having camps, especially with alterabled participants, could be taxi stops, and sign watchers. Camps might need replacements for stolen signs. More camps accommodating alterabled participants would be a fine evolution of the event!


Your might team with mobility camp and BMORG on an ability-enabling transportation MURS radio channel and equipment for those needing.

Spread the word through the mobility camp and social media you are providing this gift; don't be 100% dependent on the sign.

Finally, consider discussing with the Airport if they need to-from for people needing a team of mobility partners. If they need, that would be a story!

Hey, thanks for your project!

Thank you! It was successful and not so successful, as in, people would sign up like 20 minutes before they needed a ride. Even though I wasn't there off giving rides and the sign said to sign up after 5pm for rides the next day. So the radio thing I really want, I just don't know how to get it. As it is I don't even raise enough for the pedit cabs. Oh and yes I promoted on the BMIR and am gonna try flyers and the newspaper this year. I'd like to start taxi camp at some point, with a whole bunch of us volunteers.

Here's the report, and thanks for your support! I really appreciate people that take the time to reply to my crazy schemes.

Goldies burn report

[trilobyte]

Avoid digging post-holes at all costs, and if you can't avoid it check in with placement to get permission first. Post-holes have specialized LNT considerations.

I've used and recommend a sandwich board sign. They're easy to make, and easy to stake down with nail spikes or lag screws.