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Inappropriate signage thread

  • 04-04-2006 9:56pm
    #1
    mike65
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    startovertakingnow.jpg

    and the road gets narrower from this point on!

    Mike.


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  • #2
    murphaph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,050 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    That's a great pic Mike. Where was it taken? How long is the restriction? Short or a few Km's? Note the sign on the right is actually incorrectly made! the strikethrough is supposed to be offset to cover the overtaking car only like the sign on the left! Incredible stuff apart from the road actually getting narrower!

    How long are those signs up?


  • #3
    mike65
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    The sign is on a back road which runs alongside part of the Waterford-Tramore road, the first sign is ahead of the Outer Ring Road flyover bridge which is easily wide enough for two vehicles to pass, then after the bridge you see the above as the road falls away and goes round 3 tight bends in quick succession! I had'nt used that road for some months until this evening so dunno how long they have been up.

    A few hundred meters further on at 3rd sharp turn.

    startovertakingnow2.jpg

    Mike.


  • #4
    MT
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    Madness! It's almost as if the LA is trying to encourage people to overtake on narrow bends. 'Ah, gwan ahead, ye'll be grand.':)

    The other stupid thing about this is placing signs so close to the verge on such a narrow road. I predict these will meet their end on the side of a truck or silage trailer. That or one of the 'END's will get knocked off adding even more confusion - the two signs on each post should really be on one grey-backed panel for increased durability.

    I wonder did Rennicks manufacture the incorrect sign? :rolleyes:

    Oh, and on a point of pedantry, aren't signs in the Republic supposed to have a Gaelic translation above English phrases?


  • #5
    mike65
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    The really silly thing is the road serves no real purpose as a through route, the local authories spent about 10 million on the Outer Ring Road and the bridge proberly accounted for 5% of that. They should have simply have made the Lacken road a cul de sac from both ends. I guess there must be a land access issue for a local farmer.

    Mike.


  • #6
    MT
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    No doubt, given the ongoing bungalow blitz down there, it'll become lined with houses in years to come. Then there'll be the usual whining about potholes, lack of lighting and accidents on the bad bends.

    Ireland simply has far too many minor roads in comparison to most other places. Many of them should have been sealed off decades ago. Think of the reduction in maintenance costs/accident rates.:(


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