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sydneynick wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:31 I am not an expert on UK road signs, but feel that this has to be wrong. All those green patches with no road numbers?
There's one prior to it with the non-local destinations and route numbers on it.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.7623 ... 384!8i8192
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sydneynick wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:31 I am not an expert on UK road signs, but feel that this has to be wrong. All those green patches with no road numbers?
Surprisingly, it is correct.

The first sign is here: https://goo.gl/maps/2kT83HdzUPSUu5vZ6
Where there are two signs, the first shows primary/pseudoprimary destinations and the second shows local destinations.
The primary sign shows road numbers, but these are not repeated on the local sign (although a road number that wasn't shown on the primary sign because it had no associated destinations would be shown on the local sign).
The local sign does still respect green/white panels for primary/non-primary roads.
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Been in the East for a few days... They do seem to have generally done a good job with the whole A12 to A47 renumbering around Lowestoft and Yarmouth - still don't see the point in it but sure someone would have had a reason - certainly in that there doesn't appear to be any signs in the areas referring to the A12 when they mean the A47. Most of it is just A47 patches on existing signs though.

https://goo.gl/maps/3dxY2C2RAdYHMMHg6 - Surely this one, and the one at the island itself, though, didn't need 2 A47s?

There are still plenty of green signs on the A1074 though, which I don't think has been primary since it was the A47 - and even one "Swaffham A47" sign hidden partially behind a tree, without being bracketed, which I can't see on street view.

There's nothing wrong with this one, just north of Caister, but it is interesting
https://goo.gl/maps/LZXCLitvUB6GeB7z5
The patch presumably hides A149, which it would have opened as before they bypassed Ormesby making that unclassified, presumably borrowing a bit of the A1064 (which initially would also have been A47) along the way, and presumably making this a bypassed bypass. (and here presumably where the A149 ended on the A47 https://goo.gl/maps/kFuTsfp9QXczpKXU6 which now happens a bit further south)
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Stevie D wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 15:22 Where there are two signs, the first shows primary/pseudoprimary destinations and the second shows local destinations.
The primary sign shows road numbers, but these are not repeated on the local sign (although a road number that wasn't shown on the primary sign because it had no associated destinations would be shown on the local sign).
The local sign does still respect green/white panels for primary/non-primary roads.
Thanks for the explanation.
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traffic-light-man wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 19:32 Also, as a bonus, this appears to be an internally illuminated shared footway sign, which has to be rare, and amusingly is now lit from an external sign light.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8141309 ... 384!8i8192 = another example. It's unclear form GSV if this sign was originally lit from inside or not.
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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.83112 ... 384!8i8192
Hmmm, if only there was a sign that meant "No Motor vehicles"???
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jervi wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 22:36 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.83112 ... 384!8i8192
Hmmm, if only there was a sign that meant "No Motor vehicles"???
I'm more concerned by a "right turn only" right next to a "no right turn".
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Big L wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 22:51
jervi wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 22:36 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.83112 ... 384!8i8192
Hmmm, if only there was a sign that meant "No Motor vehicles"???
I'm more concerned by a "right turn only" right next to a "no right turn".
It looks like the "right turn only" sign has been twisted round, and so is supposed to be for traffic coming in from the bottom-left, but the "no right turn" sign is for traffic coming in from the bottom-right.
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SouthWest Philip wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 21:24 Another question worth asking is if the best route Keighley is by using the massive non-primary dual carriageway through the middle of town rather than a primary ring-road (A6177) cobbled together from residential streets, why isn't the direct route via the dual carriageway (A650) a primary route?
That's a good question. To add to the confusion, green signs continue beyond the outer ring road along the non-primary A650, for example at this new hamburger.

Then when you reach the city centre they suddenly turn white.

If you then enter the city centre looking for a car park the signs are ... yellow! :o


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So I can take my bus and horse-drawn cart down here but not any of the vehicles shown. well, actually a bus could be accepted as a motor vehicle. i think it would have been better if it was just a blank circle.
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The ADS at the Boundary Roundabout on the A3049 at the back of Bournemouth has two separate mistakes. The road number to the left is showing as the A357 when it should be the A347; the road number straight ahead is showing as A367 when it should also be the A347. The numbers in brackets appear to be correct. I spotted this last weekend when it nearly caused me to go wrong!!
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Brenley Corner wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 21:33 The ADS at the Boundary Roundabout on the A3049 at the back of Bournemouth has two separate mistakes. The road number to the left is showing as the A357 when it should be the A347; the road number straight ahead is showing as A367 when it should also be the A347. The numbers in brackets appear to be correct. I spotted this last weekend when it nearly caused me to go wrong!!
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Well spotted, I'm surprised no one has picked that up, seeing as that roundabout has just been completely re-worked! I drive past this every day and haven't noticed. Probably the foliage.
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This sign in Mortlake irks me a bit,

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4695324 ... 384!8i8192


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hburden wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 18:08 This sign in Mortlake irks me a bit,

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4695324 ... 384!8i8192
That one featured on SABRE's spot on the One Show many years ago!
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Chris5156 wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 20:22
hburden wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 18:08 This sign in Mortlake irks me a bit,

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4695324 ... 384!8i8192
That one featured on SABRE's spot on the One Show many years ago!
I never knew that SABRE was on the one show! Is there a link to a recording of this?

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hburden wrote: Fri Jun 25, 2021 01:16I never knew that SABRE was on the one show! Is there a link to a recording of this?
None that I'm aware of - there used to be but it's not online any more. I don't know where my recording of it went. It was back in 2009 when I had a haircut that I would no longer wish to be broadcast to the nation :shock:
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I pretty sure that I have a copy in my own videos folder - not sure how or why but kept now “for posterity”; I can have a look.
If I can find it, then let me know best way of getting it to those interested.

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Upside down I'm pretty sure the old sign was correct too so its a mystery why the replacement was installed like that.
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M6 North Wales

Following that announcement with a list of places which are quite definitely not in North Wales looks a bit daft to me. :? The M6 doesn't go to North Wales at all, and Chester was signed off at the previous junction. Is it supposed to say "The North West"?
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