Botched Roadsigns

[Owain]

For your amusement, an extract from the local Green Party newsletter:

[Beardy5632]

I found a really good one approaching the Cross Keys Roundabout, although given the A430 goes here there and everywhere around the Gloucester area it wouldn’t surprise me if it was genuine.

[Johnathan404]

Do we award points for creativity?

[SouthWest Philip]

I found a really good one approaching the Cross Keys Roundabout, although given the A430 goes here there and everywhere around the Gloucester area it wouldn’t surprise me if it was genuine.

It would actually make some sense for the A430 to run through to jnc 12 of the M5.

[Marzo]

I found a really good one approaching the Cross Keys Roundabout, although given the A430 goes here there and everywhere around the Gloucester area it wouldn’t surprise me if it was genuine.

It would actually make some sense for the A430 to run through to jnc 12 of the M5.

It would indeed make sense, with the A430 duplexing with the A38 for a while. I see that GSV dates from 2018 and has a slightly shorter sign without any mention of A430 or, even, the motorway. What I have never noticed is that it is not made at all clear on either version that the turning to the right, marked Whitminster and Dursley, is in fact the A38 to Bristol.

[Beardy5632]

They were doing some work on the roundabout which was completed last October so the new sign hasn't been there very long, there's also road markings with A430 on as well. I do agree that it does make sense about it running down to the M5 though.

Apologies for the sideways image by the way, I posted it off my phone so it obviously had a hiccup.

[Bryn666]

Do we award points for creativity?

Yes, the prize is a one way trip into the corrosive sulphur skies of Venus.

[RichardA35]

Do we award points for creativity?

Yes, the prize is a one way trip into the corrosive sulphur skies of Venus.

Looking in the other direction, I suspect the clearway and two way traffic signs have been erected in the wrong places....

[Beardy5632]

Do we award points for creativity?

It doesn’t surprise me they’ve put that up in all honesty. That section of A40 is filled with two way traffic signs between both roundabouts. I think I counted at least 20 along it when I last drove down there.

[crazyknightsfan]

Botched?
https://goo.gl/maps/kZFisocKYbtZHWnT9
There's a few of these around this area. They seem like a new take on the old blue-bordered local direction signs.

[Rambo]

Botched?
https://goo.gl/maps/kZFisocKYbtZHWnT9
There's a few of these around this area. They seem like a new take on the old blue-bordered local direction signs.

Theres been a few of these around for a while now. It seems like a Halton council thing as there are some in Runcorn too. Not sure what they're all about really.

[the cheesecake man]

This week The Wacky Adventures of TCM visited St Albans and Broxbourne. In Shenley I encountered these oddities announcing "Pedestrians crossing on humps".

Is it necessary to have this sign repeated at every hump?
Why will pedestrians only be potentially crossing at humps?
Alternatively is it suggesting this is a more dangerous possibility that them crossing anywhere else?
Why are pedestrians crossing the road more likely or more dangerous than in thousands of other villages that don't feel the need for such signs?
And why not just use the pedestrians crossing sign instead of an exclamation mark and an explanation?

[jervi]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.01332 ... 312!8i6656
Don't know how this was signed off for.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.01381 ... 312!8i6656
Or why there is dedicated turn lane. Or the old cat's eyes still in place, in the wrong place.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.01417 ... 312!8i6656
Or a sign, on the right had side of the opposite carriageway...
Also the speed limit sign (going into the 40, or is it 30??) has been removed...

[jervi]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.21356 ... 312!8i6656
Don't know whether this is botched, lazy, eco friendly or money saving? or all four!
Plus ending some of them in 5yds

[Conekicker]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.39177 ... 6656?hl=en

Close* but no teddy bear.

*Well not even close to be honest.

[Rambo]

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4096637 ... 312!8i6656
This has been up for over a year but has stayed blank. I always assumed it was an old sign that has fell off but if you go back on GSV it wasn't there pre 2018. There is another one, also blank on the northbound carriageway before the junction which has been there a bit longer. It's a mystery. Perhaps they were planned for something and then never used.

[Johnathan404]

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4096637 ... 312!8i6656
This has been up for over a year but has stayed blank. I always assumed it was an old sign that has fell off but if you go back on GSV it wasn't there pre 2018. There is another one, also blank on the northbound carriageway before the junction which has been there a bit longer. It's a mystery. Perhaps they were planned for something and then never used.

It just looks like a sign which is covered up because it's only relevant on certain occasions? There are thousands of them across the country, used for occasions including motorway closures, key bridge/tunnel closures, road layout changes due to local events and seasonal issues such as flooding. In this position an event at the stadium would be a likely culprit - does the A49 ever get blocked as a result of that?

[graeme_t]

If you look at this Aug 2018 GSV image, it looks like it said "BRIDGE FLOODED" as it's fallen off the pole onto the grass: https://goo.gl/maps/EGcreab2W8e61zHx7 (The second line is definitely FLOODED, but the first line I'm guessing)

[Rambo]

If you look at this Aug 2018 GSV image, it looks like it said "BRIDGE FLOODED" as it's fallen off the pole onto the grass: https://goo.gl/maps/EGcreab2W8e61zHx7 (The second line is definitely FLOODED, but the first line I'm guessing)

Ah yes i see it now. Thanks for the replies. It would be for the right turn into Hawleys lane which regularly floods underneath the west coast mainline. Although i can't say i've ever seen the sign in use..

[Dougman]

This week The Wacky Adventures of TCM visited St Albans and Broxbourne. In Shenley I encountered these oddities announcing "Pedestrians crossing on humps".

Is it necessary to have this sign repeated at every hump?
Why will pedestrians only be potentially crossing at humps?
Alternatively is it suggesting this is a more dangerous possibility that them crossing anywhere else?
Why are pedestrians crossing the road more likely or more dangerous than in thousands of other villages that don't feel the need for such signs?
And why not just use the pedestrians crossing sign instead of an exclamation mark and an explanation?

And yet the humped zebra crossing, which there is an actual sign for, doesn't have a sign?