Botched Roadsigns
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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.89823 ... 384!8i8192
Upside down giveway ahead sign.
Also the end of 40 zone start of 40 limit sign in the foreground is odd. Don't think its incorrect, but it is certainly strange to see a sign like that
Upside down giveway ahead sign.
Also the end of 40 zone start of 40 limit sign in the foreground is odd. Don't think its incorrect, but it is certainly strange to see a sign like that
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Re: Botched Roadsigns
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.48845 ... 384!8i8192
Road markings as well:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.48689 ... 384!8i8192
Road markings as well:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.48689 ... 384!8i8192
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That's because of the specially authorised New Forest 40 Zone.jervi wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 20:42 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.89823 ... 384!8i8192
Upside down giveway ahead sign.
Also the end of 40 zone start of 40 limit sign in the foreground is odd. Don't think its incorrect, but it is certainly strange to see a sign like that
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The real problem is the designer that thought a high speed segregated left turn lane slamming into a give way line like that was a good idea in the first place. Those signs scream post-RSA3 panic.Conekicker wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 08:45 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.48845 ... 384!8i8192
Road markings as well:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.48689 ... 384!8i8192
See also this absolute blx on the A57, delivered by National England Agency for Highways Agency of Transport when they tinkered with Denton Island: https://goo.gl/maps/QM4Xvrqe7aVsH2YS9
Oh look, someone crashed into the end of it: https://goo.gl/maps/6Sd9AxTDhsWsY9An9
Do any of these "designers" ever actually use public highways or are they just unthinking borg organisms in a life support tube somewhere? They're certainly on a different planet to me, that's for sure.
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What is that random signal with no stop line doing in the filter lane?Bryn666 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 13:21 See also this absolute blx on the A57, delivered by National England Agency for Highways Agency of Transport when they tinkered with Denton Island: https://goo.gl/maps/QM4Xvrqe7aVsH2YS9
Oh look, someone crashed into the end of it: https://goo.gl/maps/6Sd9AxTDhsWsY9An9
Do any of these "designers" ever actually use public highways or are they just unthinking borg organisms in a life support tube somewhere? They're certainly on a different planet to me, that's for sure.
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Re: Botched Roadsigns
That is the wrongly placed secondary head for the circulatory carriageway of the roundabout because the splitter island is something like 3mm too narrow to satisfy the requirements for a signal pole.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 14:23What is that random signal with no stop line doing in the filter lane?Bryn666 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 13:21 See also this absolute blx on the A57, delivered by National England Agency for Highways Agency of Transport when they tinkered with Denton Island: https://goo.gl/maps/QM4Xvrqe7aVsH2YS9
Oh look, someone crashed into the end of it: https://goo.gl/maps/6Sd9AxTDhsWsY9An9
Do any of these "designers" ever actually use public highways or are they just unthinking borg organisms in a life support tube somewhere? They're certainly on a different planet to me, that's for sure.
This shoehorn filter lane has caused more problems than the old roundabout ever did, a classic example of people who just don't understand roundabouts being let loose on them once again.
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Re: Botched Roadsigns
Maybe a botched road marking rather than sign but what’s the speed limit here? The sign says 30…
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.91001 ... 384!8i8192
But the road markings have been repainted (it doesn’t matter but the sign is in the direction of the upside down marking):
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/New ... -1.9862159
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.91001 ... 384!8i8192
But the road markings have been repainted (it doesn’t matter but the sign is in the direction of the upside down marking):
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/New ... -1.9862159
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shouldn't the exemption plate be under the no HGV's over the max gross weight sign?
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That has to be the worst thing I've seen in a long time, why is that build out even there? Not to mention the cycle lane than ends with a pole in the middle of it and the far side signal head being in the slip lane!Bryn666 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 13:21The real problem is the designer that thought a high speed segregated left turn lane slamming into a give way line like that was a good idea in the first place. Those signs scream post-RSA3 panic.Conekicker wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 08:45 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.48845 ... 384!8i8192
Road markings as well:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.48689 ... 384!8i8192
See also this absolute blx on the A57, delivered by National England Agency for Highways Agency of Transport when they tinkered with Denton Island: https://goo.gl/maps/QM4Xvrqe7aVsH2YS9
Oh look, someone crashed into the end of it: https://goo.gl/maps/6Sd9AxTDhsWsY9An9
Do any of these "designers" ever actually use public highways or are they just unthinking borg organisms in a life support tube somewhere? They're certainly on a different planet to me, that's for sure.
Re: Botched Roadsigns
The Zone Ends sign applies to the side road.Jonathan24 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 23:14 Maybe a botched road marking rather than sign but what’s the speed limit here? The sign says 30…
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.91001 ... 384!8i8192
But the road markings have been repainted (it doesn’t matter but the sign is in the direction of the upside down marking):
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/New ... -1.9862159
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Re: Botched Roadsigns
Great Barr on the M6 has a number of 1970s gantry installations with backing boards that would have been large enough to accommodate somewhat-compliant signs back when they were new, but are now out-of-date. Evidently, coughing up some cash to replace or modify them has never been on the cards for the local authority so the signs on them today are compromised concoctions, this one's probably the messiest of the lot.
The place has some rather substandard ADS's as well.
The place has some rather substandard ADS's as well.
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A few to report from my trip to South Wales last week! Apologies if they have already been mentioned in the million pages of this thread.
This sign lists "A4119" and "(A4119)" on the same panel. It should read "Penarth (A4160)".
Just off Junction 34 of the M4, we have two for the price of one! The top sign is missing its "A4119" (maybe it could steal the one from the sign above!) and the bottom sign - ugh. Just ugh.
The spacing on this gantry on the M4 is non-existent. It suggests you can take the A4051 for the towns of Cwmbran, Newport, Casnewydd and Caerleon.....
No Welsh on this one in Talbot Green.
Or here in Pencoed.
And finally this - why is "Llantrisant B4595" in a smaller font size than the rest of the sign?
This sign lists "A4119" and "(A4119)" on the same panel. It should read "Penarth (A4160)".
Just off Junction 34 of the M4, we have two for the price of one! The top sign is missing its "A4119" (maybe it could steal the one from the sign above!) and the bottom sign - ugh. Just ugh.
The spacing on this gantry on the M4 is non-existent. It suggests you can take the A4051 for the towns of Cwmbran, Newport, Casnewydd and Caerleon.....
No Welsh on this one in Talbot Green.
Or here in Pencoed.
And finally this - why is "Llantrisant B4595" in a smaller font size than the rest of the sign?
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A contradictory pair here in Eastleigh, both of which are wrong, I think, but certainly one is!
https://goo.gl/maps/hffomSf5dEEdqM177
The 'Keep left' sign on the left-hand bollard must surely be wrong, as northbound traffic can pass either side of it.
But I think the 'Pass either side' sign is also technically wrong, because although you can pass either side, you don't reach the same destination from either lane because the right-hand lane is for right turners only.
https://goo.gl/maps/hffomSf5dEEdqM177
The 'Keep left' sign on the left-hand bollard must surely be wrong, as northbound traffic can pass either side of it.
But I think the 'Pass either side' sign is also technically wrong, because although you can pass either side, you don't reach the same destination from either lane because the right-hand lane is for right turners only.
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Not only that, but the lorry has its telephone number wrong! There has never been a code of "02382"!TS wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 19:26 A contradictory pair here in Eastleigh, both of which are wrong, I think, but certainly one is!
https://goo.gl/maps/hffomSf5dEEdqM177
The 'Keep left' sign on the left-hand bollard must surely be wrong, as northbound traffic can pass either side of it.
But I think the 'Pass either side' sign is also technically wrong, because although you can pass either side, you don't reach the same destination from either lane because the right-hand lane is for right turners only.
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But everyone knows phone codes are 5 digits.Gareth Thomas wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 19:34 Not only that, but the lorry has its telephone number wrong! There has never been a code of "02382"!
When my employer had an office in Coventry I had a lengthy conversation with the head office that the phone number wasn't 02476 nnnnnn. 024 76nn nnnn is the correct format.
But then they once sent me paperwork for a job around Birmingham with the phone number given as 0121n nnnnnn.
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Re: Botched Roadsigns
This sign caught me out at Southampton Airport (Parkway) station car park.
https://goo.gl/maps/ugAbBqHUfZPGERwm8
To go to Eastleigh, you turn right in front of the sign. The arrow sign rather than the chevron wrongfooted me. If you pass the sign on the left hand side, you have to turn left onto Wide Lane. Fortunately there is a roundabout immediately coming up, to do a U-turn!
https://goo.gl/maps/ugAbBqHUfZPGERwm8
To go to Eastleigh, you turn right in front of the sign. The arrow sign rather than the chevron wrongfooted me. If you pass the sign on the left hand side, you have to turn left onto Wide Lane. Fortunately there is a roundabout immediately coming up, to do a U-turn!
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I'll just read this sign and assume that I can go either side and reach the same destination. Well, it doesn't seem to be. If only this sign meant that you could go either side of the island instead of the same but then to get to the same destination. If you want more, then I can find an image that I have of one.
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I'll just read this sign and assume that I can go either side and reach the same destination. Well, it doesn't seem to be. If only this sign meant that you could go either side of the island instead of the same but then to get to the same destination. If you want more, then I can find an image that I have of one.
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yep here too: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.74329 ... 8192?hl=enOliverH wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 11:24 I'll just read this sign and assume that I can go either side and reach the same destination. Well, it doesn't seem to be. If only this sign meant that you could go either side of the island instead of the same but then to get to the same destination. If you want more, then I can find an image that I have of one.