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Conekicker wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 09:39
Octaviadriver wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 08:31 No motor vehicles allowed on Little Free Street, Brecon is looking rather weathered. The Google Streetview car ignored the sign and drove along the road.
https://goo.gl/maps/tX8ZeKBc3pJ2xmW36
And why not drive down it? If no motor vehicles are allowed, why place double yellows? Also there is one property with a garage on the street and an image of a car parked in a yard. At the far end of the street there is a give way and a no entry sign.

Perhaps there's an "Except for access" plate missing?
Couldn't agree more, though I don't remember ever seeing an "Except for access" plate and there isn't one on Streetview going back to 2009. I've never seen it used as a short cut anyway as I doubt if you'd ever gain anything from using it and also very few people would turn left at the junction just past this street as they'd have turned left at the traffic lights before this turn, unless their destination is just pass the junction.

Oops, I've just realised I've posted this in the wrong place - it should have been in manky signs. I'm getting old! :oops:
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Octaviadriver wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 08:31 No motor vehicles allowed on Little Free Street, Brecon is looking rather weathered. The Google Streetview car ignored the sign and drove along the road.
https://goo.gl/maps/tX8ZeKBc3pJ2xmW36
In my experience they can be rare to find in places. I was around the Leyland / Preston area recently and the place was swimming with no motor vehicles except a access. down every side street i looked. yet hardly any in my home town.
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Probably already been mentioned, and unfortunately I didn't get a picture (and it isn't on GSV) - there's a warning sign for "otters crossing" with an underplate on the A838 Kyle of Tongue causeway.
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delinquentwoody wrote: Sun Jul 04, 2021 15:10 Probably already been mentioned, and unfortunately I didn't get a picture (and it isn't on GSV) - there's a warning sign for "otters crossing" with an underplate on the A838 Kyle of Tongue causeway.
here are some other rare crossing signs:

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OliverH wrote: Sun Jul 04, 2021 16:01here are some other rare crossing signs:

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I must say, I don't like the frog sign. I feel it is a bit too precisely drawn and could have been a little more stylised to match the other animal illustrations on our signs.
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rare tram bollard: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4043339 ... 384!8i8192 / at the outher end is a no entry bollard.

also once the works were complete they seemed to replace the tram only signs along the route with no entry sign with an except trams plate underneath.
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OliverH wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:21 rare tram bollard: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4043339 ... 384!8i8192 / at the outher end is a no entry bollard.

also once the works were complete they seemed to replace the tram only signs along the route with no entry sign with an except trams plate underneath.
Couple of these near me. Different style bollard and combined with the regular tram only signs above and the no entry except trams signs for complete coverage. I think all this as a result of several incursions. Please, please don't go down here.
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multiraider2 wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:41
OliverH wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:21 rare tram bollard: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4043339 ... 384!8i8192 / at the outher end is a no entry bollard.

also once the works were complete they seemed to replace the tram only signs along the route with no entry sign with an except trams plate underneath.
Couple of these near me. Different style bollard and combined with the regular tram only signs above and the no entry except trams signs for complete coverage. I think all this as a result of several incursions. Please, please don't go down here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3995452 ... 384!8i8192 = Just incase three or two ain't enough.
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It's the Gross weight as most signs I have seen show 7.5t
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OliverH wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 12:27 Image

It's the Gross weight as most signs I have seen show 7.5t
7.5t usually means people have complained about the number of lorries going past their house.
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A 'Horse-drawn vehicles' warning sign https://maps.app.goo.gl/GnE6fwM5g98zYzX69 that I've seen a couple of times this week. There's only a sign on one side of the pole for traffic turning left into the road, not for that turning right.
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There are a small number of length restriction signs in Coventry, and I don't recall seeing very many anywhere else.

Here's one of a pair, and some new ones have popped up recently on the A45 by the Broad Lane roundabout on the opposite side of the city.
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There's a length restriction in Brecon, but it's for parking spaces rather than for use of the road.

https://goo.gl/maps/7sfJaKotkN8ZqKqX9

This could also be posted to manky signs.
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Big L wrote: Wed Aug 04, 2021 22:29 There are a small number of length restriction signs in Coventry, and I don't recall seeing very many anywhere else.

Here's one of a pair, and some new ones have popped up recently on the A45 by the Broad Lane roundabout on the opposite side of the city.
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Which I definitely didn’t take while I was driving past this morning. No officer.
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Some have appeared on the A267 in Sussex, such as this one and this one.
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The length limit signs there are on all roads in and around Rotherfield, as the tight roads in the village were a problem for HGVs going to/from Crowborough. The pub still has damage from the various scrapings it's had
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Octaviadriver wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 09:35 There's a length restriction in Brecon, but it's for parking spaces rather than for use of the road.

https://goo.gl/maps/7sfJaKotkN8ZqKqX9
Nice to see that has survived the test of time, an original 1964 sign!
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Nathan_A_RF wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 17:14 The length limit signs there are on all roads in and around Rotherfield, as the tight roads in the village were a problem for HGVs going to/from Crowborough. The pub still has damage from the various scrapings it's had
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Octaviadriver wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 09:35 There's a length restriction in Brecon, but it's for parking spaces rather than for use of the road.

https://goo.gl/maps/7sfJaKotkN8ZqKqX9
Nice to see that has survived the test of time, an original 1964 sign!
This sign didn't exist in 1964 so someone lovingly made their own presumably ahead of time?
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You're right! Must have been an experimental sign?
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Some unusual, brand new, weight limit signs.

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Seems quite bespoke for this junction. Anyone seen this elsewhere?
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