It's the picket fence I have an issue with! Not least because railway crossing gates have always been steel or iron bar types. It doesn't tell you there's a railway.
The reason people don't claim to be "confused" by it when they chance their luck is they know 400 tonnes of train will win an argument. But you still need to know what the sign means.
I'd love to know where it originated as most of Europe has the picket fence and it drives me mad there as well.
Pre-Hixon Disaster Signage.
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Re: Pre-Hixon Disaster Signage.
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Re: Pre-Hixon Disaster Signage.
As a guess?
With the immediate hazard being "there could be a barrier across the road ahead", rather than "you could be sideswiped by a train", the symbol is a barrier or fence.
The picket fence is an easier shape to identify than the |XXXOXXX| of manual crossing gates (and nothing like the skirted/unskirted booms now)
Perhaps also an association of quaint picket fences on station platforms and some crossings being near stations, thus near that type of fence?
With the immediate hazard being "there could be a barrier across the road ahead", rather than "you could be sideswiped by a train", the symbol is a barrier or fence.
The picket fence is an easier shape to identify than the |XXXOXXX| of manual crossing gates (and nothing like the skirted/unskirted booms now)
Perhaps also an association of quaint picket fences on station platforms and some crossings being near stations, thus near that type of fence?