By Chris Irvine

A HUGE banner is urging people to back Glasgow's bid to host the Commonwealth Games months after the city won the race to host the event.

News of the successful bid to host the 2014 Games was announced last November, right, to the delight of city.

But the bridge-sited advert, asking people to vote online, still faces drivers heading along busy Dalmarnock Road in the East End area earmarked for the athletes' village.

One driver who contacted the Evening Times said: "Why are we still being urged to sign up?

"The location - Dalmarnock Road at Mordaunt Street - will soon be a hive of activity with the groundwork for the National Sports Arena, Velodrome and athletes' village.

"Developers eyeing the area must think Glasgow City Council is out of touch."

The banner, next to Dalmarnock rail station, was put up by Titan Advertising UK who provided the site free of charge for the ad but the Glasgow 2014 bid team said the banner will come down later this week.

The only other Commonwealth Games poster - this one proclaims proud host city' - is in Glasgow's India Street.

Titan's marketing department in London said the reason for the delay was due to the necessity for a road closure during the work to remove the banner.

Jim Faulds, chairman of Newhaven, the Scottish advertising agency of the year, said it would have been in the interest of Titan to have removed the ad soon after we won the bid.

Mr Faulds added another option would simply have been to stick a patch on it proclaiming the bid team's victory.

As well as the out-of-date banner, the Evening Times also spotted a road sign at the same site indicating the day a bus lane would open in 2006!

That has now been taken down after we contacted the city council.