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Johnathan404 wrote: Sat Sep 08, 2018 20:06 Nice old one on Finglas Road
These look so much tidier than modern Irish direction signs though.
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Bryn666 wrote: Sat Sep 08, 2018 23:04
Johnathan404 wrote: Sat Sep 08, 2018 20:06 Nice old one on Finglas Road
These look so much tidier than modern Irish direction signs though.
Not so many of that style remain nowadays. I managed to photo many of the former N1 signs before they were replaced.
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How about this one?

https://goo.gl/maps/KC4UFn8s6Kt

It's got worse than this since the Google car took this, I saw it on Monday just gone. What makes it look worse is the mainline M25 sign next to it.
I also think it gives a poor impression, to say a businessman just off the plane at Heathrow, and heading to any of the high-tech industrial areas in Oxford, Banbury, Warwick, etc.
One would almost think that the 'authorities' only cared about the London area, and not the 'Provinces' . . .
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I said elsewhere that the M25 must have the highest concentration of "manky" signs of any major road. Amazing considering how many times it has been re-built.
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https://www.google.com/maps/@55.0109985 ... 8192?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.0110267 ... 8192?hl=en

The first one has probably been posted before, not aware of the 2nd one though. The top one has to be surely one of the worst signs in the country and oldest modern signs aswell.
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Well at least the numbers managed to survive. Too bad there aren't more people who see the numbers as a useful means of navigation rather than trying to follow a long list of potentially lengthy place names on the signs.
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Euan wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2018 08:15
Well at least the numbers managed to survive. Too bad there aren't more people who see the numbers as a useful means of navigation rather than trying to follow a long list of potentially lengthy place names on the signs.
I think they’ve only survived because they’re patched on, so they’re newer than the rest of the sign face. It’s a green primary route sign where the road has been downgraded and white patches with the B-road number stuck on.
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Chris5156 wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 20:10 I think they’ve only survived because they’re patched on, so they’re newer than the rest of the sign face. It’s a green primary route sign where the road has been downgraded and white patches with the B-road number stuck on.
Except that, if you go back to the 2008 images, you can see that the patches were actually yellow, but have faded so much over time that they're now white (and so, weirdly, far more correct than they were when originally put on!)
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Chris5156 wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 20:10
Euan wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2018 08:15
Well at least the numbers managed to survive. Too bad there aren't more people who see the numbers as a useful means of navigation rather than trying to follow a long list of potentially lengthy place names on the signs.
I think they’ve only survived because they’re patched on, so they’re newer than the rest of the sign face. It’s a green primary route sign where the road has been downgraded and white patches with the B-road number stuck on.
It must be a really old sign if it dates from the days when the A1 passed straight through Newcastle before being downgraded to B1318. It is rather bizarre that the sign has not since been replaced with a white one, but with the destinations now faded the majority of drivers will see a genuine reason for the sign needing replaced.
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DavidBrown wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 21:11
Chris5156 wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 20:10 I think they’ve only survived because they’re patched on, so they’re newer than the rest of the sign face. It’s a green primary route sign where the road has been downgraded and white patches with the B-road number stuck on.
Except that, if you go back to the 2008 images, you can see that the patches were actually yellow, but have faded so much over time that they're now white (and so, weirdly, far more correct than they were when originally put on!)
There is also an image on the B1318 wiki page of a similarly patched route confirmation sign from 2007:

https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/ind ... itle=B1318

The yellow patch on the sign must have been added at around the same time as the yellow patches on the arrow signs. The patches were most likely a deeper yellow in colour initially, as they already look quite faded by the late 2000s.
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From the SABRE Wiki: B1318 :

The B1318 is the route of the Great North Road between Newcastle upon Tyne city centre and the former mining village of Seaton Burn. The road originally formed part of the A1 but the B1318 number came into being in this area following construction of the Wide Open bypass in the 1960s. Following construction of the Tyne Tunnel approach roads in 1975 the A1 was able

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