Botched Roadsigns
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They don't pass the Test, then?Skermington wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 09:01 This No U-Turns sign in Woolston has got my brain Itchen.
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Re: Botched Roadsigns
Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 11:58They don't pass the Test, then?Skermington wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 09:01 This No U-Turns sign in Woolston has got my brain Itchen.
Re: Botched Roadsigns
Current signs along the A2300 dualing scheme.
I don't understand why they couldn't just switch the signs around that were used in the opposite direction, I guess they wanted to save 10 minutes of time and hoped no one would notice.
I guess they thought they could just flip the signs upside down and it would still be correct. Doesn't quite work like that since contraflow traffic must use white arrows and with flow must use black arrows.I don't understand why they couldn't just switch the signs around that were used in the opposite direction, I guess they wanted to save 10 minutes of time and hoped no one would notice.
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A like-for-like replacement when it really shouldn't have been!OliverH wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 23:40 Botched or rare: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.90990 ... authuser=0
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Botched, and very poor. An advance Stop sign should be used in this situation if advance warning of the junction is considered necessary.OliverH wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 23:40 Botched or rare: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.90990 ... authuser=0
What is particularly peculiar is that a manufacturer would have gone out of their way to make that sign like without querying it. Or perhaps they did...
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I suppose you could argue that the settlement of Brighton is a town, within the City of Brighton and Hove....jervi wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 23:17 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.85661 ... 312!8i6656
Plane pointing wrong way. The bottom sign is missing "A23" and "town centre" seems to be a destination (Brighton not centred on it), however no caps and its also a city.
Also that diversion patch is a bit messy
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Very profeshnial - if only there were a sign you could use when shuttle working is in place.
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How hard can it be to get this right?
A560/A5103/M56 roundabout Wythenshawe.
A560/A5103/M56 roundabout Wythenshawe.
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Ah the joys of using AutoCAD's Mirror command...
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"anyone can do traffic signs"
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FTFYBryn666 wrote: ↑Thu May 27, 2021 11:59"anyone can do traffic signs badly*"
* and they so often do...
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Re: Botched Roadsigns
A sign here that's trying to cover up that you can no longer make a right turn at the junction with the A58. the only problem is that It doesn't tell drivers to use Mill lane to turn right to Leeds.
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Should also have been patched with A1(M) by now, I would have thought?
Aside from not being capitalised, which presumably is just because of its age, are you allowed to have "North" and "South" without the preceding "The"?
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I'm certain that's deliberate, so to not encourage the use of Mill Lane as a rat-run.
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Re: Botched Roadsigns
Spotted this one today when I was at Cribbs.
The A4018 isn't primary, M5 should be in brackets as should West and I don't think the A38 is primary north of Bristol either (Google Maps thinks it is for some reason).
The A4018 isn't primary, M5 should be in brackets as should West and I don't think the A38 is primary north of Bristol either (Google Maps thinks it is for some reason).
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Re: Botched Roadsigns
I see that East Riding Council are up to their old tricks again, using signage that I'm sure is unlawful.
Where they have re-dressed the road surface, they have a signed mandatory 20mph limit on an otherwise NSL road.
The start of the limit only has the 20 sign on one side of the road, not both.
The signs are so low to the ground that they are almost hidden in the long grass, and they are in shadow, so very hard to see.
There is no sign at the end of the section.
Through the restriction there is a mix of mandatory 20 repeater signs and "Loose chippings" advisory 20 signs.
They have reduced the limit for 1½ miles but they have only re-dressed about 100m and only on one side of the road.
Thankfully no-one was paying the blindest bit of attention to it. The biggest danger there, though, is that there is a short 40 section in the middle of it, but because they have put bin bags over the 40 signs (except that two of them have come off/been taken off, but they're not to know that), it isn't obvious to drivers who are sensibly ignoring the farcical 20 limit what the actual limit at that point should be.
Where they have re-dressed the road surface, they have a signed mandatory 20mph limit on an otherwise NSL road.
The start of the limit only has the 20 sign on one side of the road, not both.
The signs are so low to the ground that they are almost hidden in the long grass, and they are in shadow, so very hard to see.
There is no sign at the end of the section.
Through the restriction there is a mix of mandatory 20 repeater signs and "Loose chippings" advisory 20 signs.
They have reduced the limit for 1½ miles but they have only re-dressed about 100m and only on one side of the road.
Thankfully no-one was paying the blindest bit of attention to it. The biggest danger there, though, is that there is a short 40 section in the middle of it, but because they have put bin bags over the 40 signs (except that two of them have come off/been taken off, but they're not to know that), it isn't obvious to drivers who are sensibly ignoring the farcical 20 limit what the actual limit at that point should be.
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They do the exact same in Lincolnshire, however they put a 40 limit about 200 yards infront of the 20, going into the 20, but not the exit side. So in one direction it is NSL and the other is 40. Despite me reporting it multiple times nothing has been done.Stevie D wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 22:38 I see that East Riding Council are up to their old tricks again, using signage that I'm sure is unlawful.
Where they have re-dressed the road surface, they have a signed mandatory 20mph limit on an otherwise NSL road.
The start of the limit only has the 20 sign on one side of the road, not both.
The signs are so low to the ground that they are almost hidden in the long grass, and they are in shadow, so very hard to see.
There is no sign at the end of the section.
Through the restriction there is a mix of mandatory 20 repeater signs and "Loose chippings" advisory 20 signs.
They have reduced the limit for 1½ miles but they have only re-dressed about 100m and only on one side of the road.
Thankfully no-one was paying the blindest bit of attention to it. The biggest danger there, though, is that there is a short 40 section in the middle of it, but because they have put bin bags over the 40 signs (except that two of them have come off/been taken off, but they're not to know that), it isn't obvious to drivers who are sensibly ignoring the farcical 20 limit what the actual limit at that point should be.