• wander1236@sh.itjust.works
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    I’m pretty sure it’s saying you can’t turn left onto the road to the left of the intersection. Looks like some pretty bad road design.

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      I understand the intent from your graphic, but given the signage, I would not have known what they expected of me.

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      You’re absolutely correct. I just thought it made for a funny photo. It’s very on brand for this city to do dumb shit like this.

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        I’ve been confused and made dangerous choices in traffic for less stupid reasons. Not trying to deflect all blame but considering the lowest common denominator, road construction and signs really need to pay much more attention to the limits of the human brain.

        Half of us have an IQ below 100 and we could be driving in darkness, with rain pouring down and facing traffic that shines its headlights into our eyes. The road needs to have an affordance that suggests to the driver how to drive correctly, instead of causing confusion when you already have a lot of traffic to keep track of.

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      Bad road design for sure, but the sign still could be better. For example they could make a custom sign, draw the intersection and mark explicitly that you can’t turn to Oakwood.

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      This is exactly the type of content i was hoping for when i clicked on the comments. Thank you for all you hard work sluthing for an explination of a random photo. Its truly gods work that your doing.

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    Apart from what some commenters already pointed out (about the orientation of the roads there), I’m not sure how it’s going in the US, but in Europe, we have a hierarchy, where the sign on a pole takes precedence over the sign painted on the road.

    The hierarchy is:

    1. Police officer’s hand signs
    2. Traffic lights
    3. Signs on a pole
    4. Signs painted on the road

    According to this, you cannot turn left, even though it looks like a left turning lane.

    Is there such a thing in the US?

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      Is there such a thing in the US?

      Yeah.

      1. Whatever the heck I want, because “ma freedom”
      2. Police officer’s hand signs
      3. Traffic lights
      4. Signs on a pole
      5. Signs painted on the road
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      in Europe, we have a hierarchy

      This is definitely not true for all of Europe. In Germany, for instance, signs on roads have equal precedence to signs on poles.

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            Here in Finland we just wait for snow, then you can’t see the painted one.

            Which is why it was such a great idea to replace our solid “you can’t pass here” lines from their old bright yellow to EU matching white so that that self driving cars understand them correctly. So now during the winter both of us and the machines can’t see them equally well.

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          That’s the neat part: They don’t. At least I have never seen confusing signage/markings.

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              In Germany we actually test people before we let them drive cars. If you’re from the US, this concept might be unfamiliar :D

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                This has nothing to do with the drivers, and more to do with municipal workers putting up signage.

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      Lately the trend is for temporary signs to have yellow background instead of white. So if you see road construction you’ll see a yellow background sign.

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      For real. It’s not even the dumbest shit I’ve seen today. Someone missed an entrance onto i95, so they drove up the offramp intended for the opposite direction. Got 50ft before an oncoming car made them realize their mistake.

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        I overheard someone in a court house trying to argue with who I assumed was their assigned counsel that it’s totally legal to enter on an off ramp, as long as you’re going in reverse.

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    Sometimes construction makes for unexpected detours.

    (I should probably mention that it’s also a dead end road, so no backing out)

    • Decoy321@lemmy.worldOP
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      Exactly. I assume that’s why they didn’t bother doing the proper signage.

      Pa la pinga.

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    1 year ago

    Seems the mildly infuriating part is the left out information.

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    Makes perfect sense to me. Sign on a pole takes precedence over sign on road.

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    many signs should really be treated as suggestions. so many roads here with zero fucking business being 35 here