Strange Road Signs

[mjr]

My avatar is a road sign encouraging motorists to look out for cyclists. It's a main road on the Yorkshire coast often used for time trialling.

What's unusual about it? That the local highways department is concerned enough for cyclists to erect a prominent sign.

But not concerned enough to actually improve the road?

Is it official then? Looks like an event organiser sign, on correx in non-standard colours.

 

[Mike_P]

But not concerned enough to actually improve the road?

Is it official then? Looks like an event organiser sign, on correx in non-standard colours.

And cable tied in place, hardly a proper official sign.

 

[Moodyman]

But not concerned enough to actually improve the road?

Is it official then? Looks like an event organiser sign, on correx in non-standard colours.

No idea if it's official. But it was one of several signs in the local area, so I presume it came from the local authority. They were mounted high up on several lampposts.

It's not an area I'm local to, but have ridden round there a few times and this was the first time I saw these. So, they may have been temporary due to a planned event/s.

 

[kynikos]

 

[Hover Fly]

But not concerned enough to actually improve the road?

Is it official then? Looks like an event organiser sign, on correx in non-standard colours.

The official warning sign is a cycle within a red triangle, which is not as one “road owner” by the side of Thirlmere tried to tell me, a “Cycling prohibited“ sign.

 

[ColinJ]

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That is funny. (I assume that parts of the cycleway had been damaged/dug up but pedestrians could walk round or over those bits.)

 

[sabcycling]

The first funny road sign I saw was in Runcorn, Cheshire in 2005 or so... It was one of those triangular 'humps ahead' signs, that somebody had drawn two nipples onto..... A rather simple, yet effective modification lol I wonder if it's still there now... I think the new bridge might have been built where the sign was. I would love to go back for a visit now, but C19 and all..

 

[kynikos]

That is funny. (I assume that parts of the cycleway had been damaged/dug up but pedestrians could walk round or over those bits.)

Yes, pretty much this!

 

[sheddy]

Not UK

 

[Brummie53]

Haven’t got a picture of it now but driving through Norway many moons ago we came upon the hamlet of Helle . It was a warm day but certainly not an inferno and we got through the other side unscathed.

 

[sheddy]

Makes sense

 

[PeteXXX]

Makes sense

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Looks like there's icing on the road!

 

[mjr]

Looks like there's icing on the road!

No, it's only frosting.

 

[Chromatic]

Saw this while out and about.

 

[mjr]

Saw this while out and about.

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Bonus points if the noise is the sign slamming shut!