Botched Roadsigns

[Beardy5632]

The second one is harder to explain.

Was the person who put it up colourblind?

[Chris Bertram]

The second one is harder to explain.

Was the person who put it up colourblind?

The advantage of triangular signs over diamonds is that there's an obvious right way up. There will be a flat base and a pointy top - Give Way signs apart - and if you get the wrong point at the top, it will look stupid.

[Bryn666]

That didn't stop the sign in Salford where the traffic signal is the correct way up on an upside down triangle. Who on earth managed that? If it had a sticker on the back of course I'd know, and I would never buy signs from them.

[trencheel303]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Win ... !1e1?hl=en

when you see it...

[DavidNW9]

Seriously not?

[Bryn666]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Win ... !1e1?hl=en

when you see it...

Shortage of oxygen to the brain on them thar hills.

[crb11]

At present on the M11 southbound on the approach to junction 10 (A505) there's a yellow-backed sign pointing to Stump Cross (exit) and A11 (continue on motorway). Unclear what it's doing there, but an expensive detour if you want the A11 from here, and I don't think many people know what Stump Cross is/was any more. (It's labelled as Stumps Cross on another yellow sign at the A505/A1301 junction.)

[B1040]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-engla ... 7a1393bd0e



Shame the author of the article didn't look very hard for a real A248

[crowntown100]

I hope you have your glasses on for this beauty! I don't know who thought that the "REDUCE SPEED NOW" sign on the right would be an appropriate sized sign for a WS2 road, especially as it's warning people who are, most likely, driving quite fast...

[Lewis1997]

This road sign appears twice in Haverhill. Firstly, the road is the A143, which is correct going right. However, it is the A1307 and not the A1017 to Cambridge, which is incorrect going right. As for going left, well, it couldn't be any worse! Whilst the route is still the A143, it leads to the A1017, which then goes on to Braintree. Therefore, the sign should say 'Braintree (A1017)'. The A1071 actually begins at the other side of Sudbury on the A134, with the A134 being some 12 miles away from this location at Long Melford. Therefore, the sign should actually say 'Sudbury/Long Melford (A1092)'.

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[Lewis1997]

Another one I noticed, and coincidently on holiday in the area, is within the last (or first as some would say) mile of the A30. The last junction with the B3315, there are no issues with the A30 signs, although the B3315 signs do still include the (A3077) which became a defunct after the A30 Penzance bypass, so this is incorrect. We then move along the A30 about some 150/200 yds to a turning to Trevescan. The A30 signs are certainly confusing; the road between Land's End and Penzance is a non-primary A-road, yet the signs are in green and yellow writing, and don't follow suit with the typical white on brown for Land's End signs and black on white for Penzance signs. So there you go, the first and last botched roadsign in the country!

[kc1]

Is this a botch? https://goo.gl/maps/tp51VG3tNP62. Technically, it is the non-primary A77 leading to the primary A77, but it looks very odd.

[Chris5156]

Is this a botch? https://goo.gl/maps/tp51VG3tNP62. Technically, it is the non-primary A77 leading to the primary A77, but it looks very odd.

Yes, that's a mess. "A77" only needs to appear once. Both "(A75)" and "A77" should be on green patches as the road becomes primary further on, but everything else should stay black and white because it is not primary at this point.

[Bryn666]

As Chris says. It's a little known secret of TSM Chapter 7 that you can do that.

[Chris Bertram]

As Chris says. It's a little known secret of TSM Chapter 7 that you can do that.

So, how about this one? I'm sure A44 should be in brackets, so that's a botch, but actually, isn't A424 primary from Stow to Troopers Lodge anyway? OS think it is.

[c2R]

Even though this is a wrong like-for-like replacement of the old sign (rewind street view), I like how simple the sign is without a bracketed patched A10 and pointless indication of the B road number:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.89467 ... 56!6m1!1e1

[Viator]

Not so much a botched roadsign as a botched vegetation management scheme: https://goo.gl/maps/XrqarU7ra1S2.

The image dates from 2011 (though the history shows that the sign was just as obscured for at least two and a half years before that). My question is: who is responsible when things get to such a state: the highway authority or the landowner?

[Burns]

Anyone up for a trip to the Tay Bridge via Craigellachie?

[exiled]

Not a bodge but is it me but this looks very French?

[Glen]

Not a bodge but is it me but this looks very French?

It's a bit pointless using Jerol columns behind a barrier, though.