Impossible road signs

[Night Train]

It's one of the little things I always enjoy, the fact that the chap is wearing wellies and they've drawn the little lip where they stick out at the back of his knee.

Shows its age that they haven't given him a hard hat though.

I reckon under that black there would have been a bloke wearing a shirt and tie.

 

[Peteaud]

The car skidding sign, the car only has two wheels on the road, the NS are off the ground. Its a james bond car

 

[Globalti]

Here's a really interesting website on road signs: http://www.cbrd.co.uk/roadsfaq/

....and here's a typically interesting picture, explaining road numbering: (All motorways and A roads take their numbers from this web)

 

[benb]

That is fascinating - I had never realised that before.

Here's a really interesting website on road signs: http://www.cbrd.co.uk/roadsfaq/

....and here's a typically interesting picture, explaining road numbering: (All motorways and A roads take their numbers from this web)

 

[vernon]

....and here's a typically interesting picture, explaining road numbering: (All motorways and A roads take their numbers from this web)

I've often wondered about the underlying logic behind road numbering. It's obvious once it's pointed out. Thanks Globalti for the enlightenment.

 

[srw]

(All motorways and A roads take their numbers from this web)

Not quite. Somewhere on CBRD, or perhaps on the Crap Motorways website, there's a list of some roads which are wrongly numbered. For instance the A404 goes south of the A4, so ought to start with a 3.

 

[Globalti]

GROAN!

 

[CopperCyclist]

The skid marks CAN happen... ish. I always thought they were impossible until I witnessed some at a scene!

Imagine this: The skid mark that is relatively straight is the cars FRONT RIGHT tyre. The skid mark that curves is the cars REAR LEFT tyre. The car was completely locked up, initially travelling sideways, then the driver corrected the skid causing the rear left tyre to swing back round so that the car was travelling forwards again.

However, what's missing from the sign is the skids left by the other two tyres of course, which makes it confusing - however I think we can allow that to artistic licence!

 

[Fnaar]

With all the rain we've had, the council have put these familiar signs out in places:

And it was only today that I noticed that the car has, in fact, just done something impossible!

Yes, look at 0.56 - 1.00 of this, and (briefly)you will see how it's done

http://www.channel5.com/shows/dangerous-drivers-school/episodes/episode-2-363

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Here's a really interesting website on road signs: http://www.cbrd.co.uk/roadsfaq/

....and here's a typically interesting picture, explaining road numbering: (All motorways and A roads take their numbers from this web)

That's really interesting, although, do I need to re-number the M5 that runs past my office here in Taunton?

 

[Fnaar]

That's really interesting, although, do I need to re-number the M5 that runs past my office here in Taunton?

Seemingly not:

2.2.2 How are motorways numbered?

Motorways use their own numbering system. The principle is the same as for A- and B- roads (see 2.2.1 How are A- and B- roads numbered?), the main difference being that in England and Wales the single-digit motorways M1 to M6 serve as zone boundaries. The different placing of the A5 and M5 means that the motorway zones look quite different to the A- and B- road zones, with zone 4 being a landlocked box in the Midlands.

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[subaqua]

That is fascinating - I had never realised that before.

sabre is also a good site if you are a road saddo (like me) and the crapmotorways one is great. the london box plan just shows how carcentric we were in the old times.

 

[benb]

the london box plan just shows how carcentric we were in the old times still are.

FTFY

 

[XmisterIS]

Yes, look at 0.56 - 1.00 of this, and (briefly)you will see how it's done

http://www.channel5....s/episode-2-363

Too fast! I missed it ... I tried watching the rest of it but the adverts which you can't fast forward through gave me road rage so I switched it off!

 

[PpPete]

my favorite silly sign... or rather pair of signs, on a short local suburban path.

At one end :

And at the other end of the path ... all of 20 metres away