Monolith Maps Mark the Way Home from Mosaic

Council installs “interactive maps” to help lost students and shoppers find their way.

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If you’ve ever found yourself forgetting the way home after one too many Jagerbombs on ‘top top’, fear not, Exeter Council has a solution.

Two digital information points have been set up in Exeter, giving visitors up-to-date travel information and an interactive map to help them find their way around the cathedral city.

Try working this when you’re drunk…

The red pillars, or “interactive monoliths” as the council likes to call them, came about thanks to funding from Devon County Council, Exeter City Council and 106 developer contributions that had been set aside for providing public transport  information.

While Councillor Stuart Hughes told the Exeter Express and Echo that the information points would be useful for “public transport users,” his colleague Councillor Rachel Sutton suggested the more serious function of helping “people to make best use of their shopping time.”

Any lost students can currently find the monoliths at Bedford Square in Princesshay and on Sidwell Street outside John Lewis, with talk of an additional map being installed in St Thomas.