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rick_chasey
rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
edited July 2011 in Commuting chat
Confusing-road-signs-001.jpg

Surprising? No.

I've had abuse from various drivers on a stretch of road which is 'no motor vehicles allowed' for cycling there.

Comments

  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    I thought the one in the top middle meant no motorcycle stunt riding...... :D

    Seriously though, not sure about middle left. White 30 on blue circle would be a minimum speed limit (i think) so place red line through it would mean end of minimum speed limit I would of thought? I suppose that is covered by "end of 30 mph limit" ..... hhmmmm
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    Chris

    Genesis Equilibrium - FCN 3/4/5
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Yep it does mean end of minimum speed limit.

    http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/le ... eding.html
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    Chris

    Genesis Equilibrium - FCN 3/4/5
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

    Diversions sign fail on my part.

    Then again, 5 minutes trawling google and I still can't find a site to explain what each sign means.

    Anyone?
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    daviesee wrote:
    :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

    Diversions sign fail on my part.

    Then again, 5 minutes trawling google and I still can't find a site to explain what each sign means.

    Anyone?

    http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/ge ... outes.html
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    Chris

    Genesis Equilibrium - FCN 3/4/5
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Sketchley wrote:
    Yep it does mean end of minimum speed limit.

    http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/le ... eding.html

    So the sign explaining the meaning of confusing road signs has got confused over the meaning of a road sign :wink:
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • esspeebee
    esspeebee Posts: 174
    Sketchley wrote:
    I thought the one in the top middle meant no motorcycle stunt riding...... :D
    Warning: Low flying motorbikes.
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Sketchley wrote:
    Yep it does mean end of minimum speed limit.

    http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/le ... eding.html

    Good because I was sure that was what it meant.

    It sort of makes the image a bit of a fail.
  • I like this one from Romania

    road-sign-warning-of-drunk-pedestrians-in-romaina-pic-cen-174422206.jpg

    Apparently warning drivers of drunk pedestrians...
    Nobody told me we had a communication problem
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Sketchley wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

    Diversions sign fail on my part.

    Then again, 5 minutes trawling google and I still can't find a site to explain what each sign means.

    Anyone?

    http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/ge ... outes.html

    I am glad that is cleared up then :?
    That (as other sites) explains what they mean as a group but not individually.

    I can guess at - go straight on - but the others?
    Circle - Go round in circles?
    Square - Go round the block?
    Diamond - Oh, you choose. We don't have a clue either?

    I only want to know.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • pst88
    pst88 Posts: 621
    I always thought the square/circle/triangle on the diversion sign was a means of identifying which diversion you were following. For example i'm trying to get somewhere but there's a diversion sign marked with a square. I then know I have to follow all diversion signs with a square to get to my destination. If I start following a triangle sign that's probably a different diversion going somewhere else.
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    pst88 wrote:
    I always thought the square/circle/triangle on the diversion sign was a means of identifying which diversion you were following. For example i'm trying to get somewhere but there's a diversion sign marked with a square. I then know I have to follow all diversion signs with a square to get to my destination. If I start following a triangle sign that's probably a different diversion going somewhere else.

    Correct!! It's not rocket science..... and does that need to be explained to everyone?
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    pst88 wrote:
    I always thought the square/circle/triangle on the diversion sign was a means of identifying which diversion you were following. For example i'm trying to get somewhere but there's a diversion sign marked with a square. I then know I have to follow all diversion signs with a square to get to my destination. If I start following a triangle sign that's probably a different diversion going somewhere else.

    Correct!! It's not rocket science..... and does that need to be explained to everyone?

    No. Just me apparently :oops:

    And yet I have never needed to know this info prior to today, or got lost due to diversions.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.