Is this the start of driving on the right?
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My dad has lived in a dead end street on a small residential estate for over ten years. At the closed end is a small turning circle to allow vehicles easy access. The circle has a small island in the middle and recently the local council ( Kirkcaldy in Fife) erected a traffic sign indicating that traffic should negotiate the circle in an anti- clockwise direction. I've attached a pic of blue sign in middle of Island...it all looks daft to me . To comply with the signage means crossing from left lane to right lane before driving around the island then breaking through ( theoretically ) oncoming traffic to gain access to left hand lane to drive on......really daft or is it correct?????? P.s. Currently the majority of residents , me included , contravene the signage and drive clockwise round the island!!!!
That's weird. Wonder if the council just messed up the sign, maybe used a euro template by mistake?
Similarly, this one has always been a head scratcher for me in Stirling...
At first glance, you may think it's a roundabout, but there's no signage or road markings to indicate that, and the only way out is to the right. Myself and most others treat it as a T junction right, then a right turn, essentially going anti-clockwise round the island. Coming from the other direction, I would treat it as a normal clockwise roundabout, or T left, left junction.
Similarly, this one has always been a head scratcher for me in Stirling...
At first glance, you may think it's a roundabout, but there's no signage or road markings to indicate that, and the only way out is to the right. Myself and most others treat it as a T junction right, then a right turn, essentially going anti-clockwise round the island. Coming from the other direction, I would treat it as a normal clockwise roundabout, or T left, left junction.
Geek mode:
It's not a recognised sign in the TSRGD. There is sign 611.1 which shows blue circle with white arrows and a clockwise direction of travel, but it has no permitted variants. Report to the council, and either disregard or assume the spirit of the signing is to travel in the standard UK clockwise direction.
http://www.ukroads.org/webfiles/TSRGD-2002.pdf
Page 79 of the document.
It's not a recognised sign in the TSRGD. There is sign 611.1 which shows blue circle with white arrows and a clockwise direction of travel, but it has no permitted variants. Report to the council, and either disregard or assume the spirit of the signing is to travel in the standard UK clockwise direction.
http://www.ukroads.org/webfiles/TSRGD-2002.pdf
Page 79 of the document.
d.Fastdruid said:
lbc said:
The OPS photo is mirror reversed. Just a wind up.
Nice idea but it's not. You can open the larger version and clearly see the number plates etc are the correct way round so unless it's 'shopped it's not a windup.Polome said:
The circle has a small island in the middle and recently the local council ( Kirkcaldy in Fife) erected a traffic sign indicating that traffic should negotiate the circle in an anti- clockwise direction. I've attached a pic of blue sign!
Dumb ass place to put it right behind a bush?
speedyguy said:
Polome said:
The circle has a small island in the middle and recently the local council ( Kirkcaldy in Fife) erected a traffic sign indicating that traffic should negotiate the circle in an anti- clockwise direction. I've attached a pic of blue sign!
Dumb ass place to put it right behind a bush?
Round these parts the general rule seems to be that an existing sign is carefully obscured by placing a completely different sign a few yards in front of it. If no other sign is available then placing it just after a flourishing bit of shrubbery will do. 
Back on topic we do have a never developed short stretch of dual carriageway which is now used mostly as a car park and is signed and used 'wrong way' so that taxis in the cab rank end up facing towards potential customers emerging from the railway station.
Back on topic we do have a never developed short stretch of dual carriageway which is now used mostly as a car park and is signed and used 'wrong way' so that taxis in the cab rank end up facing towards potential customers emerging from the railway station.
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