Strange Road Signs

[Freds Dad]

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1211855

Nice cycle route.

 

[Alex H]

National Cycle Route 1 has an offshoot to Lindisfarne.

 

[winjim]

And on special occasions the signs state; Beware Of The Low-Flying Lancaster

May 16 for the Dambusters anniversary flight.

http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/visiting/events-and-activities/dambusters-anniversary-flight

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

May 16 for the Dambusters anniversary flight.

http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/visiting/events-and-activities/dambusters-anniversary-flight

I've seen that, on social media, bit sadly working that day

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1211855

Nice cycle route.

That's the same location (near Heysham, Lancashire), as my red sign

 

[Bodhbh]

I came across signs like this around Salisbury Plain

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Salisbury Plain is quite good for this sort of thing....

And in case you thought about digging for it....

 

[Dayvo]

Technically speaking more of a river sign than a road sign as you can see from a boat on the Norfolk Broads but hard to beat for irony or just plain stupidity! View attachment 406868

In the same vein:

 

[greenmark]

 

[ColinJ]

[Not so much a strange sign, as an unusual one]

I rode the excellent (Morecambe) Bay Cycleway last year. When I went for a pub meal in Grange-Over-Sands the tide was out so there were vast stretches of sand with a few shallow water channels criss-crossing them. I emerged from the pub only just over an hour later but by then the sea had swamped the Bay. It made me shudder to think of the 23 poor Chinese cockle pickers who drowned there in 2004. I found the signs in Arnside very poignant, knowing that the Chinese workers could not understand them ...

 

[booze and cake]

Not really a road sign, but I saw this while cycling through the swanky part of town today.

 

[ColinJ]

Not really a road sign, but I saw this while cycling through the swanky part of town today.
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If I had a Ferrari, I would LOVE to leave it parked it in front of those garage doors!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

[Not so much a strange sign, as an unusual one]
I rode the excellent (Morecambe) Bay Cycleway last year. When I went for a pub meal in Grange-Over-Sands the tide was out so there were vast stretches of sand with a few shallow water channels criss-crossing them. I emerged from the pub only just over an hour later but by then the sea had swamped the Bay. It made me shudder to think of the 23 poor Chinese cockle pickers who drowned there in 2004. I found the signs in Arnside very poignant, knowing that the Chinese workers could not understand them ...

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When I first mooted the idea, to my wife about entering the event to run over the Bay (organised event!!), the quicksands are the first thing that she mentioned
Second is the speed of the tide, & it's nature; encirlcling due to channels, it's ability to outpace a galloping horse!

Conversely, it's not that dangerous with a guide who knows the sands
In the 1970s, Prince Philip drove a 'Carriage & 4' over, & I know someone who's driven a Land Rover over!!!

We had a (carefully) waymarked course, by the local Fishermen, & Bay Search & Rescue escorting us, in their HaggLunds

Another aspect that people forget is that the rivers enter the Bay, whether the tide's in or out!!
We were in water (anything from 1/2 inch, to crotch-deep, for well over 2 miles - from memory)

 

[ColinJ]

Conversely, it's not that dangerous with a guide who knows the sands
In the 1970s, Prince Philip drove a 'Carriage & 4' over, & I know someone who's driven a Land Rover over!!!

We had a (carefully) waymarked course, by the local Fishermen, & lBay Search & Rescue escorting us, in their HaggLunds

A lot of charity events still seem to be held across the bay. As you say though, you need people who know what they are doing to keep you safe. Such as 'The Queen's Guide to the Sands'!

 

[User16625]

not a road sign but:

 

[sheddy]

Just one example from the Warrington Cycle Campaign

http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/July2017.htm