Cycling up the south circular (A205) the other day approaching Shooters Hill crossroads the bus lane disappeared, and so I had to squeeze up the inside of the stationary traffic (lights on red) so that I could wait next to the nice lady who was hogging the ASL box.
But I noticed a sign on a lampost - blue circle with people and bike, positioned to face across the road. Ie. best read from the opp. pavement. Now I undertand this to denote mixed use path, but it was facing 90degs the wrong way, and there was nothing to back it up. eg. white paint on pavement, or anything to denote when this situation ended. It was a tad unconvincing.
Presumably this is some half-arsed way of signing off that the area is cycle-friendly? When in reality it means one could whizz round the blind pavement corner, and then cycle forever on the pavement until you came to a 'cycling prohibited' sign? Drans.
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Cycling up the south circular (A205) the other day approaching Shooters Hill crossroads the bus lane disappeared, and so I had to squeeze up the inside of the stationary traffic (lights on red) so that I could wait next to the nice lady who was hogging the ASL box.
But I noticed a sign on a lampost - blue circle with people and bike, positioned to face across the road. Ie. best read from the opp. pavement. Now I undertand this to denote mixed use path, but it was facing 90degs the wrong way, and there was nothing to back it up. eg. white paint on pavement, or anything to denote when this situation ended. It was a tad unconvincing.
It probably means that the sign was set wrong or that it has been turn by those pesky kids.
But I noticed a sign on a lampost - blue circle with people and bike, positioned to face across the road. Ie. best read from the opp. pavement. Now I undertand this to denote mixed use path, but it was facing 90degs the wrong way, and there was nothing to back it up. eg. white paint on pavement, or anything to denote when this situation ended. It was a tad unconvincing.
Probably just the mounting clamp rotated on the lampost so its not pointing in the direction it was intended to.
Presumably this is some half-arsed way of signing off that the area is cycle-friendly?
It means that the the LA is incompetent, but you probaly knew that anyway, which shows how incompetent they are for puttign up signs that aren't needed.
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Cycling up the south circular (A205) the other day approaching Shooters
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crossroads the bus lane disappeared, and so I had to squeeze up the inside of the stationary traffic (lights on red) so that I could wait next to the nice lady who was hogging the ASL box.
But I noticed a sign on a lampost - blue circle with people and bike, positioned to face across the road. Ie. best read from the opp. pavement. Now I undertand this to denote mixed use path, but it was facing 90degs
the
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wrong way, and there was nothing to back it up. eg. white paint on
pavement,
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or anything to denote when this situation ended. It was a tad
unconvincing.
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Presumably this is some half-arsed way of signing off that the area is cycle-friendly? When in reality it means one could whizz round the blind pavement corner, and then cycle forever on the pavement until you came to a 'cycling prohibited' sign? Drans.
I've seem this before - I think it's to indicate that you can cycle across the road from a shared-use path to another shared-use path.
It what we're stuck with until someone has the sense to design a zebra-like cycle crossing.
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Cycling up the south circular (A205) the other day approaching Shooters Hill crossroads the bus lane disappeared, and so I had to squeeze up the inside of the stationary traffic (lights on red) so that I could wait next to the nice lady who was hogging the ASL box.
But I noticed a sign on a lampost - blue circle with people and bike, positioned to face across the road. Ie. best read from the opp. pavement. Now I undertand this to denote mixed use path, but it was facing 90degs the wrong way, and there was nothing to back it up.
Hmm - haven't been back to Saarf Lahndan for *years* now (and I didn't have a bike when I lived there), but I would suspect (as others do) this sign *was* correcly denoting a shared-use path, and has since been spun round to point in an incorrect direction by vandals.
This happens regularly in Reading - if you took some of the towpath signs at face value you would need to have an *amphibious* bicycle 🙂
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Hmm - haven't been back to Saarf Lahndan for *years* now (and I didn't have a bike when I lived there), but I would suspect (as others do) this sign *was* correcly denoting a shared-use path, and has since been spun round to point in an incorrect direction by vandals.
For officially sanctioned 'comedy' signposts, see;
For officially sanctioned 'comedy' signposts, see;
A particular favourite of mine pointed the way to Little Snoring and Great Snoring. That would be my son Michael and me, then :-)
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Hmm - haven't been back to Saarf Lahndan for *years* now (and I didn't have a bike when I lived there), but I would suspect (as others do) this sign *was* correcly denoting a shared-use path, and has since been spun round to point in an incorrect direction by vandals.
For officially sanctioned 'comedy' signposts, see;
Completely genuine, rather than Photoshop-doctored. A bit of a minor
yep - I would guess it amused the council staff in the old days (those sort of signs are technically obsolete, although I think some still exist in S. Oxon) - and due to this the sign has been kept over the years.
A rather more rebellious one is the green man aspect in a certain pelican crossing in Reading (GT knollys St, towards West Reading / Central swimming pool end) 🙂
Now, I don't want to go all Uri Geller here, but this year's was held in Welwyn Garden City on the weekend of 25/26 January. I was born in Welwyn Garden City on 26 January (in 1964).
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A rather more rebellious one is the green man aspect in a certain pelican crossing in Reading (GT knollys St, towards West Reading / Central swimming pool end) 🙂
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Now, I don't want to go all Uri Geller here, but this year's was held in Welwyn Garden City on the weekend of 25/26 January. I was born in Welwyn Garden City on 26 January (in 1964).
You're Welwyn there then! Badoom ching, thank you, thank you.
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(those sort of signs are technically obsolete ...
Also still lots of them to be seen near York, especially in the Ryedale & Hambleton districts. Other favourite roadside oddities include the milestone on the A61 in middle of town at Alfreton, Derbys.[1], which reads "Alfreton 0 Miles" ;-)
Other favourite roadside oddities include the milestone on the A61 in middle of town at Alfreton, Derbys.[1], which reads "Alfreton 0 Miles" ;-)
Round Cambridge road signs give distances to Puckeridge, a little known village on the northern outskirts of London. Presumably at one time it was a key destination but it is still preferred over London on new signs
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Other favourite roadside oddities include the milestone on the A61 in middle of town at Alfreton, Derbys.[1], which reads "Alfreton 0 Miles" ;-)
Round Cambridge road signs give distances to Puckeridge, a little known village on the northern outskirts of London. Presumably at one time it
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a key destination but it is still preferred over London on new signs
Its a nice little town -- village, indeed!!
Its miles from the outskirts of London.
There is shed loads of excellent cycling in the area.
The choice of Puckeridge as the destination probably reflects the fear of the yokels to go near the smoke. Its like the M1 signs in Yorkshire -- lots of data on distances to obscure little places like Sheffield and Leeds -- but no data on anything outside Yorkshire.
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It always rather amused me, that heading away from London, many road signs read 'The North', but you never see signs going the other way saying 'The South'.
That's because Southerners know which way home is.... -- DP
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Other favourite roadside oddities include the milestone on the A61 in middle of town at Alfreton, Derbys.[1], which reads "Alfreton 0 Miles" ;-)
Round Cambridge road signs give distances to Puckeridge, a little known village on the northern outskirts of London. Presumably at one time it
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a key destination but it is still preferred over London on new signs
Its a nice little town -- village, indeed!!
Its miles from the outskirts of London.
There is shed loads of excellent cycling in the area.
The choice of Puckeridge as the destination probably reflects the fear of the yokels to go near the smoke. Its like the M1 signs in Yorkshire --
lots
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of data on distances to obscure little places like Sheffield and Leeds -- but no data on anything outside Yorkshire.
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It always rather amused me, that heading away from London, many road signs read 'The North', but you never see signs going the other way saying 'The South'.
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It always rather amused me, that heading away from London, many road signs read 'The North', but you never see signs going the other way saying 'The South'.
Try roads south out of Glasgow and Edinburgh. There always used to be plenty saying the South.
