Out of date road signs
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Old N7 sign near Castletown, Co. Laois
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I'm old enough to remember when this hospital used to be called that.
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Me too. It's Heartlands Hospital now, for non-locals. But it's still in east Birmingham. And Dudley Road Hospital has become City Hospital. There may still be one or two signs around with the old name for that too, if I spot one I'll report back.Truvelo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 20:55 I'm old enough to remember when this hospital used to be called that.
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Re: Out of date road signs
I was born in Dudley Road Hospital and that's what me and all my relatives still call it.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 21:18Me too. It's Heartlands Hospital now, for non-locals. But it's still in east Birmingham. And Dudley Road Hospital has become City Hospital. There may still be one or two signs around with the old name for that too, if I spot one I'll report back.Truvelo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 20:55 I'm old enough to remember when this hospital used to be called that.
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Prior to TSRGD 1994 there was an 'arrowhead' symbol, like the current arrow without the shaft, that was very common on gantry signs that were designed to accommodate them below voids for electronic matrix signs (example).
You've probably sussed the problem already - current regulations don't permit the symbol on new signs so the old ones gradually fade to oblivion, there's not enough space to accommodate full arrows, either below the electronic signs or on the main sign without modifying the structure at great expense. So the whole thing becomes a hodge podge whenever other changes are needed.
A simple solution would be to allow use of the arrowhead for existing structures.
You've probably sussed the problem already - current regulations don't permit the symbol on new signs so the old ones gradually fade to oblivion, there's not enough space to accommodate full arrows, either below the electronic signs or on the main sign without modifying the structure at great expense. So the whole thing becomes a hodge podge whenever other changes are needed.
A simple solution would be to allow use of the arrowhead for existing structures.
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Inverness is not a town since 2000
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And that's not a road sign, since 2014.Komi san wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 15:27 Inverness is not a town since 2000
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New signs do say City Centre. And include the Gaelic "Meadhan a' Baile" - which is correct for a city, town or village. Unfortunately there's no direct equivalent in English, except possibly "Settlement Centre" which sounds a bit awkward.
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This one may have been posted before - it's on what was the A30:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/A4PsVxvPPyeQvoRt9
Not sure how long ago the bypass was built, but it must be a good while as I don't ever remember this being the A30.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/A4PsVxvPPyeQvoRt9
Not sure how long ago the bypass was built, but it must be a good while as I don't ever remember this being the A30.
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1988 according to our very own Wiki.Paul237 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:11 This one may have been posted before - it's on what was the A30:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/A4PsVxvPPyeQvoRt9
Not sure how long ago the bypass was built, but it must be a good while as I don't ever remember this being the A30.
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1988. Answers in our Wiki under Network Changes https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/ind ... es_-_1980s From that:-Paul237 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:11 This one may have been posted before - it's on what was the A30:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/A4PsVxvPPyeQvoRt9
Not sure how long ago the bypass was built, but it must be a good while as I don't ever remember this being the A30.
1988 A30 Blackwater Bypass Cornwall The 2 .2 mile dual carriageway from Scorrier to Chiverton Cross was opened on 14 July 1988 by Jim Philip, Chairman of the County Council's transportation Committee, 11 months ahead of schedule. Contractor was A.E. Farr Ltd. of Wiltshire, cost £4.5 million. There was then a 14 mile section of continuous dual carriageway.
Edit: beaten to the punch by Bryn!
From the SABRE Wiki: Network changes - 1980s :
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Thanks both! I'd read the A30 page previously, but not that one.
When I was a child we never went that far into Cornwall, but I remember getting caught in A30 traffic further up near Newquay prior to the dualling around Indian Queens. Nightmare.
When I was a child we never went that far into Cornwall, but I remember getting caught in A30 traffic further up near Newquay prior to the dualling around Indian Queens. Nightmare.
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T'was ever so, or at least since since the 1950s. Exeter, Whiddon Down, Okehampton, Launceston, Temple, Bodmin, Goss Moor, Indian Queens, Camborne. Names to send shivers down the spine. Single carriageway bits in between those. Solved at different times; shunted the problem down the road. Loggans Moor will be the new one as soon as they finish Carland/Chiverton X. Newquay itself is getting busier by the year and as that is single carriageway once you get off the A30 and as the new Nasledan settlement going in there they are adding to the fun. Trying to make another Bournemouth/Poole conurbation.
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