Poor Road Signage Pictures

Victor · 21-10-2010 07:16PM

Made up as they went along.

Similar here: http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=52.341298,-6.461946&spn=0,0.009645&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.34153,-6.46171&panoid=zFL_fgQPEmssM7Rf_SE4dQ&cbp=12,193.33,,3,-1.28

Alun · 21-10-2010 07:36PM

Victor wrote: »

Similar here: http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=52.341298,-6.461946&spn=0,0.009645&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.34153,-6.46171&panoid=zFL_fgQPEmssM7Rf_SE4dQ&cbp=12,193.33,,3,-1.28

Identical I'd say

They use something pretty close to that, if not the same, for cycle routes in the UK don't they?

Colm R · 22-10-2010 10:24AM

I've seen lots of Blue signs in Monaghan along the N2.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.320429,-6.962415&spn=0.007809,0.022724&z=16&layer=c&cbll=54.320385,-6.962432&panoid=ofI9-mBgWxoWxxAOxl1LSA&cbp=12,35.08,,0,2.49

mackerski · 22-10-2010 11:29AM

Alun wrote: »

Identical I'd say

They use something pretty close to that, if not the same, for cycle routes in the UK don't they?

Similar, but brown. Unfortunately this particular example has the route number blurred. That said, there's also this: http://www.peasepottage.info/cycling

Here's a nice oddity. It's a cluster of Irish cycling route signs with a a mixture of Irish and UK route number styles.

Alun · 22-10-2010 11:40AM

mackerski wrote: »

Similar, but brown.

I don't recall ever seeing brown ones, but I used Google images search and found a whole bunch of blue ones from the UK, including these examples ...

.. they even have bilingual ones ...

I do a lot of long distance walking in England and often these routes intersect or follow long distance cycle routes for a while, which is probably where I remember them from.

mackerski · 22-10-2010 11:49AM

Alun wrote: »

I don't recall ever seeing brown ones, but I used Google images search and found a whole bunch of blue ones from the UK, including these examples ...

That's pretty compelling

Looks like both colours are out there.

Carawaystick · 22-10-2010 10:20PM

Victor wrote: »

Made up as they went along.

Similar here: http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=52.341298,-6.461946&spn=0,0.009645&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.34153,-6.46171&panoid=zFL_fgQPEmssM7Rf_SE4dQ&cbp=12,193.33,,3,-1.28

Are those not the same signs Victor?

Is the pole not on CIÉ land there? that organisation that would ever have badly presented information, rather than the local Auth?

Victor · 22-10-2010 10:33PM

No, its council land - they and the RPA jointly put some of their surplus land their up for sale. Not sure if it was sold.

Empire o de Sun · 23-10-2010 11:00AM

http://maps.google.ie/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.848266,-8.476124&spn=0.014236,0.045447&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.848273,-8.476009&panoid=GYMV44yUKvxJmG7LPUfFxA&cbp=12,175.28,,0,7.12

humm

icdg · 23-10-2010 11:23AM

I've seen UK-style blue cycling route signs in Dundrum. To add to the colour confusion though, there are ones on the N4 Lucan Road that are white!

I'd imagine that they are just making them up as they go along - in the absence of any Irish guidelines there would probably be an understandable tendancy to look at the UK rules.

triple-M · 23-10-2010 05:43PM

Empire o de Sun wrote: »

http://maps.google.ie/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.848266,-8.476124&spn=0.014236,0.045447&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.848273,-8.476009&panoid=GYMV44yUKvxJmG7LPUfFxA&cbp=12,175.28,,0,7.12

humm

why is there a word blurred out on that sign?

GizAGoOfYerGee · 23-10-2010 07:04PM

triple-M wrote: »

why is there a word blurred out on that sign?

Google mistook it for a license plate.

Victor · 28-10-2010 04:38AM

At Confey in Leixlip.

I've added the last one for the surreal factor.

Cookie_Monster · 28-10-2010 09:31AM

No camping in the graveyard, :rolleyes::D

Richard · 31-10-2010 10:16AM

Victor wrote: »

At Confey in Leixlip.

I've added the last one for the surreal factor.

Sorry - I don't get it. Why are the first two poor?

Alun · 31-10-2010 10:23AM

Richard wrote: »

Sorry - I don't get it. Why are the first two poor?

I presume because of the SLOW road markings that coincide with the speed limit actually increasing (albeit by a massive 10km/h). In other words, they probably painted them on the wrong side of the road. Alternatively they could be for the minor road entering from the left just afterwards, I suppose.

chewed · 13-11-2010 01:16PM

Now which way is the N51 to Athboy?

icdg · 14-11-2010 08:22PM

Victor wrote: »

At Confey in Leixlip.

Kildare County Council have erected new signs in Leixlip this week. Something to do with the parking. I couldn't tell you any more, there is so much text in such a small size squeezed onto such a small sign that it is impossible to read in a moving vehicle. Though that may have been the idea...

Carawaystick · 14-11-2010 10:10PM

Victor wrote: »

At Confey in Leixlip.

I've added the last one for the surreal factor.

Are these (camping excluded) not down to the classification of the road in the 60 zone being rural or semi-rural and the urban limit finishing at a certain boundary ?
As in it's more to do with how speed limits are set and town boundaries are defined more than bad signage per say.

I'd imagine there are towns and villages in Europe where the name of the village sets the default urban speed limit and the name crossed out indicates the end, but which would have a bad stretch of road just outside the boundary.

Obviously in Ireland it's cheaper to paint lines on the road than have the necessary public consultations etc to change the rural limit....

Victor · 15-11-2010 02:41PM

Carawaystick wrote: »

Obviously in Ireland it's cheaper to paint lines on the road than have the necessary public consultations etc to change the rural limit....

Quicker, but not necessarily cheaper if they fixed them all in one go.

flazio · 17-11-2010 06:50PM

So look at the two attachments. This was taken on the bridge over the M6 motorway beside the village of Aughrim in Co. Galway. Some 200 miles away from the Northern border.
The second picture would have been enough but I think it's only fair to show both sides so as to provide context as to what the signs are meant to be.

murphaph · 17-11-2010 07:44PM

flazio wrote: »

So look at the two attachments. This was taken on the bridge over the M6 motorway beside the village of Aughrim in Co. Galway. Some 200 miles away from the Northern border.
The second picture would have been enough but I think it's only fair to show both sides so as to provide context as to what the signs are meant to be.

wow, just wow. Those are NOT remnants of the metric changeover, they are brand spanking new. Who on earth ordered them, paid for them, sanctioned them? Ireland is broke and our public sector signs off on junk like this?!

Empire o de Sun · 17-11-2010 07:49PM

murphaph wrote: »

wow, just wow. Those are NOT remnants of the metric changeover, they are brand spanking new. Who on earth ordered them, paid for them, sanctioned them? Ireland is broke and our public sector signs off on junk like this?!

Well with an incomplete out of date TSM, it's not surprising mistakes are made

murphaph · 17-11-2010 08:10PM

Empire o de Sun wrote: »

Well with an incomplete out of date TSM, it's not surprising mistakes are made

But not in this area. Even the average irish motorist (not know for their roadsigns knowledge) would spot that mistake a mile off.

18-11-2010 09:46AM

murphaph wrote: »

But not in this area. Even the average irish motorist (not know for their roadsigns knowledge) would spot that mistake a mile off.

Most drivers would just think that the NSL is back!

Anyway having signs on roads that are at the national speed limit is an unecessary expence.

Seth Brundle · 18-11-2010 11:09AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Most drivers would just think that the NSL is back!

As its slightly lower than the 100km/h limit, at least people won't get done for unwittingly speeding because of this error.

Cookie_Monster · 18-11-2010 11:21AM

kbannon wrote: »

As its slightly lower than the 100km/h limit, at least people won't get done for unwittingly speeding because of this error.

The "No Speed Limit" sign as many people used to think :pac:

EDIT:
That sign can mean either 60 or 70 mph in the UK so could have people over the limit.
60 single carriageway or 70 dualer, at least thats what was explained to me on my last trip over

etchyed · 18-11-2010 12:35PM

flazio wrote: »

So look at the two attachments. This was taken on the bridge over the M6 motorway beside the village of Aughrim in Co. Galway. Some 200 miles away from the Northern border.
The second picture would have been enough but I think it's only fair to show both sides so as to provide context as to what the signs are meant to be.

Forgive my ignorance, but is there a proper way to show "end of no overtaking restriction"?

18-11-2010 02:17PM

etchyed wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance, but is there a proper way to show "end of no overtaking restriction"?

Yes, it's a circle with a black border and grey cars with several thin black diagonal stripes. Used on mainland Europe, I've not seen any here or in the UK.

Edit: found an image http://www.alkhebradriving.com/images/Road%20Signs.pdf (page 7)
edit2: the whitelines in the middle of the road change from a solid line to a broken line, (the official answer)

Zoney · 19-11-2010 08:42AM

Think I have seen a solution used here where you have the ordinary no-overtaken signs with "Críoch"/"End" on a plate underneath.

Poor Road Signage Pictures

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