That one was put up due to people ignoring the bus lane - there are already correct signs here, but people kept ignoring them and complaining about getting tickets. So the red sign is to emphasise that you really can't go this way. Its twin telling you which way you should go seems to have got lost between 2012 and 2015 when the street lights were replaced.
I'm not sure when these were first put up (before 2008, as that's as far back as streetview goes) but as temporary signs they should have gone by now.
Yep, every local highway authority in the country has its one, and invariably only one, thorn-in-its-side member of the public that revels in the publicity of the local rag to highlight the smallest of inaccuracies in new traffic schemes. I say inaccuracies - half the time their assertions aren't even correct although in this case Swansea Council have held their hands up.
You just have to read the comments beneath the story to discover just how little the rest of the world cares.
What does interest me is how Sgeti was originally spelt?
16 Sodium atoms walk into a bar
followed immediately by Batman
I particularly enjoyed the 'you can only mention one route number once on a sign' assertion. I assume they probably meant per direction, rather than on each sign.
I will get in touch if something's blatantly wrong and likely to cause a problem, but directly with the authority rather than via the medium of our local rag.
I never knew those existed, I wonder how many of them are still used nowadays. I guess you could call it a hybrid
The other end is certainly not right. Also also doesn't allow access, and from the amount of people who park their cars along this track I presume it isn't enforced either.
This road is also part BOAT, although Not entirely sure why they didn't just reclassify it as a restricted byway, since that would have a very similar effect as these two TROs. Basically the same result as the A14 Huntingdon bypass not being a motorway, just ends up it shown incorrectly (in terms of access) on a map, and have to throw up a load of restriction signs.
jervi wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 22:11 I never knew those existed, I wonder how many of them are still used nowadays. I guess you could call it a hybrid
That particular one was to deal with an area not allowing motor cars - the post service didn't want to use horses for the whole run, so they just towed the car with a horse until they got to the highway, then unhitched the horse and started the engine. Apparently Ford did produce an official harness kit for their cars - during the Great Depression many people couldn't afford petrol but some of them had a horse available. I doubt this lasted much longer than the 1930s - after that most people wouldn't have had horses around.
That one was put up due to people ignoring the bus lane - there are already correct signs here, but people kept ignoring them and complaining about getting tickets. So the red sign is to emphasise that you really can't go this way. Its twin telling you which way you should go seems to have got lost between 2012 and 2015 when the street lights were replaced.
I'm not sure when these were first put up (before 2008, as that's as far back as streetview goes) but as temporary signs they should have gone by now.
Can't help but think that a 613 with an exception plate strapped to the lighting column would be a far more logical (and lawful) solution.
It tells you where the border actually is, and it's not where the big "Welcome to Wales" sign is at the bottom of the hill.
But is is of no consequence to a driver where the border is - a simple repeater sign here would have been sufficient and the correct full distance signed from the start at either end.
Bryn Terminally cynical, unimpressed, and nearly Middle Age already. She said life was like a motorway; dull, grey, and long.