Signposts directly in the road

Keiji · Post by **Keiji** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 08:25

Clicking around from an unrelated Spanish GSV link, I ended up at this roundabout, which has several sign poles directly seated into the tarmac, rather than in an island - i.e. they are not protected by kerbs or a verge.

That's something I've never seen before (not counting poles right next to walls on narrow roads where there is no pavement, which are plentiful around the UK it seems).

How many countries actually do their signposts like this? Are there any UK examples?

michael769 · Post by **michael769** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 08:41

God I hope they are passively safe (they don't look like the are).

DavidBrown · Post by **DavidBrown** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 08:56

This at the bottom end of the M77 is probably our most infamous example.

Mark Hewitt · Post by **Mark Hewitt** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 08:57

Keiji wrote:Clicking around from an unrelated Spanish GSV link, I ended up at this roundabout, which has several sign poles directly seated into the tarmac, rather than in an island - i.e. they are not protected by kerbs or a verge.

That's something I've never seen before (not counting poles right next to walls on narrow roads where there is no pavement, which are plentiful around the UK it seems).

How many countries actually do their signposts like this? Are there any UK examples?

Quite common in Mallorca, that one.

vlad · Post by **vlad** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 20:19

There's this one on the M53 - but that's further away from the running lanes than the example you've given.

Chris5156 · Post by **Chris5156** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 15:29

There was once an example of this on the M1...

HPM · Post by **HPM** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:44

In Belgium (it is better to drive straight!) : http://goo.gl/z9VoZh

Chris5156 · Post by **Chris5156** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 13:23

HPM wrote:In Belgium (it is better to drive straight!) : http://goo.gl/z9VoZh

And if you follow the road a bit further, this nice big direction sign, which has one leg behind the barrier and the other embedded in a huge block of concrete in front of it. Yikes!

Bryn666 · Post by **Bryn666** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 15:51

Looks like a casualty reduction scheme equivalent - with some questionable design!

HPM · Post by **HPM** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 21:22

Chris5156 wrote:And if you follow the road a bit further, this nice big direction sign, which has one leg behind the barrier and the other embedded in a huge block of concrete in front of it. Yikes!

Easier than cutting the trees! It is so representative of the roads in Wallonia

urbanfox · Post by **urbanfox** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 20:24

Not quite as bad, but I've never liked the look of these lamp posts along the Nene Valley Way

darkcape · Post by **darkcape** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 19:45

Two examples on the M1 (northbound in the link but there is the same southbound too), and the same on the M6 near Rugby too.

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