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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 21:08 
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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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What they really need is a supplementary sign to warn that the junctions are so close: somethin like this.


I had a wander and saw the diverge sign here: http://g.co/maps/djkdf

Then, a bit further ahead, you get to this: http://g.co/maps/he7he

That's certainly not how you should mark out that kind of diverge! :shock: It would be very easy for someone in lane 1 to continue into the right hand lane of the sliproad as suggested by the markings while someone moving from lane 2 into the sliproad following the road sign would cut them up!


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Keiji wrote:

That's certainly not how you should mark out that kind of diverge! :shock: It would be very easy for someone in lane 1 to continue into the right hand lane of the sliproad as suggested by the markings while someone moving from lane 2 into the sliproad following the road sign would cut them up!


The marking appear to have been changed since last time I wen through there! :shock: In the past the markings matched the diagram on the sign and were much clearer! As you say with the locals assuming the old layout, but tourists and visitors not that is a pretty nasty conflict point. Time for a little email to Transport Scotland methinks!

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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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On the A5 at Gailey Island.

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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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Have I posted this dreadful sign before, or its equally botched counterpart further down the road?

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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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Thats just ridiculously low!!!!

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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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This sign is misleading, although would normally be correct but for the unusual road layout.

The right turn here is actually a one-way street, meaning that right turners can in fact take the first side of the triangle and do not have to go past it to take the clockwise route in the usual way.


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I saw some awful 30 signs on some roadworks coming out of York last night on the A1079...

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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:36 
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Maybe it's because I've been up since stupid o clock this morning, but what is that sign trying to tell me? Ped zones left and right and I have to go straight ahead? Ped zone starts here but there's a crossroads ahead? Ped zone straight ahead at the junction and I have to turn left or right?

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Maybe it's because I've been up since stupid o clock this morning, but what is that sign trying to tell me? Ped zones left and right and I have to go straight ahead? Ped zone starts here but there's a crossroads ahead? Ped zone straight ahead at the junction and I have to turn left or right?

Nothing so profound - at night there's an access restriction on the residential street straight ahead, intended to stop its use as a rat run when the people who live there are trying to get some sleep.

It wouldn't need to exist if the surrounding one-way streets, turn restrictions and overloaded junctions didn't make it the easiest and fastest way from Streatham High Road to anywhere west of the A23.

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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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This sign is misleading, although would normally be correct but for the unusual road layout.

The right turn here is actually a one-way street, meaning that right turners can in fact take the first side of the triangle and do not have to go past it to take the clockwise route in the usual way.


Browsing around a little I found this errant "keep left" bollard and this ugly map sign.


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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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^ That map sign is terrible. The 'service road' etc legend is just floating there; it really isn't clear which direction it is referring to.


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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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It won't be on GSV because I think they've only happened in the last week, but all three of the ADS signs on the soouthbound A1(M) approaching J56 have a patch showing "Barton" on the first two and "Services" on the third - and all three of the patches are over the junction number so you can't see it any more!

(Unless that's a ploy to change them once the Leeming - Barton section ever gets completed!)


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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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Hi everyone! :wave:

Lots of the signs in Rye, East Sussex, are botched.


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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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The A73 between the M8 and Carluke is a goldmine.

work this one out

Junction of A73 to A71 (both non primary, but both former trunk routes), they have multiplexed for the last 3/4 mile. What the hell does that sign mean?


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 Post subject: Re: Botched Roadsigns
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andrew acheson wrote:
Hi everyone! :wave:

Lots of the signs in Rye, East Sussex, are botched.

Hi yourself :D .

Google Streetview links to a few of the wrong 'uns in Rye?

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