Bizarre roadsigns

[Veeayt]

As per topic - please post strange and bizarre roadsigns that you've seen

I'll start with this, which I found in Monaco. What does it mean?

[alpine87]

No parking, you will be towed, except taxis, 30kph limit, pedestrians (young children), for 30 meters?

[Veeayt]

But what's with the man's head? Saints for the next 30 meters?

[LiamB]

Pedophiles (In taxi's) operate in the area no one under 30 allowed?

[bimsb6]

Black people from the '70s only

[mgtony]

Persons displaying 70's style afro hair may only enter if with child.

Beat me to it!

[MarkP1973]

bimsb6 said:

Black people from the '70s only

[Johnnytheboy]

I posted a couple in a meant-to-be-humorous thread last year that was met with characteristic PH humourlessness - mind you I did put it in SPL .

So I'll post them again. Not quite the same thing, as they are normalish UK signs, but in which two things about their design contradict each other.

1. Leading to a small roundabout on a private road, there's a roundabout sign:



So it's like the usual sign:



But round, not triangular.

Now, while a triangle is a warning, a red ring means "don't do this", so what is this sign trying to tell me? Don't use the roundabout? Don't treat the roundabout as a roundabout? Or, don't travel clockwise, i.e. do travel anti-clockwise?

2. On a more satisfyingly simple note, I occasionally encounter this sign at roadworks:



So I guess this means I must not allow oncoming traffic to give way to me?

Or I am not allowed to give way to oncoming traffic?

[Truckosaurus]

Johnnytheboy said:

I recall seeing the matching version ("you don't have priority") of that sign down by Bovington army base in Dorset with the extra signage saying "Tanks have right of way" as if that wasn't a given.

[sherman]

Johnnytheboy said:

2. On a more satisfyingly simple note, I occasionally encounter this sign at roadworks:



So I guess this means I must not allow oncoming traffic to give way to me?

Or I am not allowed to give way to oncoming traffic?

It just means that the traffic from the direction off the black arrow has right of way.

[Johnnytheboy]

No, you've missed my point. It's in a red ring, so it means a prohibition of the traffic that has the right of way having the right of way, according to the size and direction of the arrows. If you get me.

It should be the other way up and mean you don't have the right of way, or it should be this sign:



...which means you do have the right of way.

[lazy_b]

Johnnytheboy said:

I posted a couple in a meant-to-be-humorous thread last year that was met with characteristic PH humourlessness - mind you I did put it in SPL .

So I'll post them again. Not quite the same thing, as they are normalish UK signs, but in which two things about their design contradict each other.

1. Leading to a small roundabout on a private road, there's a roundabout sign:



So it's like the usual sign:



But round, not triangular.

Now, while a triangle is a warning, a red ring means "don't do this", so what is this sign trying to tell me? Don't use the roundabout? Don't treat the roundabout as a roundabout? Or, don't travel clockwise, i.e. do travel anti-clockwise?

2. On a more satisfyingly simple note, I occasionally encounter this sign at roadworks:



So I guess this means I must not allow oncoming traffic to give way to me?

Or I am not allowed to give way to oncoming traffic?

There are probably some installation instructions on the back of the roadworks sign, which say:-

dn ʎɐʍ sıɥʇ

[Johnnytheboy]

lazy_b said:

There are probably some installation instructions on the back of the roadworks sign, which say:-

dn ʎɐʍ sıɥʇ

They probably thought it was in Russian.

[pinchmeimdreamin]

I Have yet to actually ever see any Triffids

[smiffy180]

[Pablo68]

smiffy180 said:

I really did LOL

[sebhaque]

And two from overseas...

[Amirhussain]

smiffy180 said:

lmao

[Johnnytheboy]

sebhaque said:

That's as good as mine!

[Prawo Jazdy]

I thought the red ring signs were 'orders'. Think about it - a 30 with a red ring around it doesn't mean "don't do 30mph". The roundabout sign would be "you must go in this direction" in this case.