Chris56000 wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 20:12
Incidentally, is the number of Industrial HGV destinations on that new black Lorry Route sign pointing along the A1077 a UK record? I thought that sign–designers aren't supposed to list that many on a single sign?!
I wondered that too. It has seven destinations listed. Or eight if you want to insist "Ind Est" also counts as a destination.
This previously noted example has twelve if you count English and Gaelic separately but that's cheating.
TS wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 09:56
I was at Redpoint in Ross-shire in the summer, and this sign at the start of the B8056 has been changed to a ginormous one, must be about 12 feet high. I didn't take a photo, unfortunately, but someone might be able to stop by if it's on their commute or something (!) to confirm just how many names are now on it.
An extremely large sign for a very minor road! I wonder what the average population per destination is?!
Looks like someone has blindly followed the "NSL = 200+ x height" logic without actually looking at the road speeds in question which are almost certainly nowhere near 60 - going back in time shows a more reasonably sized (albeit monolingual) blue bordered sign here.
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An extremely large sign for a very minor road! I wonder what the average population per destination is?!
Looks like someone has blindly followed the "NSL = 200+ x height" logic without actually looking at the road speeds in question which are almost certainly nowhere near 60 - going back in time shows a more reasonably sized (albeit monolingual) blue bordered sign here.
Thinking about it, that junction is a bit of a guddle with a fairly fast S2 approach from that direction but a transition to S1 on both other arms - the transition is pretty much immediate for the side road, which is unusual even in the Highlands. I can see the logic that you want people to have decided exactly where they want to go as early as possible so they can devote as much brainpower as possible to negotiating the junction safely and considerately, especially given the amount of text they'll need to process!
I was more referring to the careful enumeration of every single placename along this pretty simple dead-end road. I think it would do the job to just sign it as as Red Point - the end of the road - with Badachro as it seems to be the largest settlement with a harbour and the only junction of note. You could at least drop Shieldaig, though, a place which seems to comprise of a single lodge and confusingly shares its name with a much larger settlement which you would access at the next major junction!
I wonder if the destination list was lifted directly from a very old signpost/milepost that was there before?
Here's another ten just off the Warwickshire M40. Big sign!
Stupidly big sign and it looks bloody awful. Three separate flags - one white, one brown, one black - would probably result in a smaller overall sign area, a much clearer way of showing the same information, and leave room for a lorry symbol next to the bottom two destinations, which is mandatory but has been omitted.