Strange Road Signs

[ColinJ]

Is that an old image, as I thought he had died?

It says in the box in the top left that the picture was taken in July 2016.

 

[ColinJ]

Cedric is still earning his £15 a year!

 

[steverob]

It's long since been fixed (Street View link), but I do remember seeing a road sign to a "Canal museum" near Northampton, where some scamps had painted over the "C".

The best thing was the attention to detail - they'd actually gone to the trouble of sourcing (almost) the correct shade of brown paint to match the rest of the sign (only if you weren't going past at speed could you tell for sure), proving that maybe they were actually quite anal about it, just maybe not quite in the way people would think now reading the sign!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Cedric is still earning his £15 a year!

So pleased to read that!

 

[mjr]

It's long since been fixed (Street View link), but I do remember seeing a road sign to a "Canal museum" near Northampton, where some scamps had painted over the "C".

The best thing was the attention to detail - they'd actually gone to the trouble of sourcing (almost) the correct shade of brown paint to match the rest of the sign (only if you weren't going past at speed could you tell for sure), proving that maybe they were actually quite anal about it, just maybe not quite in the way people would think now reading the sign!

I remember it well... it was as you headed towards Northampton and is visible on archived Streetview from 2011: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.143...4!1sQV6Hfw_3rrBJoS8LMVjQRQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Let's just be thankful they didn't change the symbol...

 

[Alex H]

Just when I get to a suitable bridge to jump off, I see this;

I going to be keeping an eye out now, for a sign that says "No strong currents OK to jump off"

 

[mikeymustard]

I'm always impressed by this tastefully altered sign
In Pembrokeshire:

 

[plantfit]

Beckingham ranges Lincs/Notts border

 

[Lozz360]

Not a road sign but straight from the current Nigerian Highway Code:

 

[mjr]

Can you tell where our migrant workers come from recently?

And it's always useful for motorists to be allowed to do 60mph on a gravel road between two stretches of 40mph tarmac:

 

[Profpointy]

Not a road sign but straight from the current Nigerian Highway Code:
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I think you may be being a bit naughty there. The UK HC also has (or had) that as a way of telling a constable directing traffic where you were going. I doubt anyone has done this in the last 60 years.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

The UK HC also has (or had) that as a way of telling a constable directing traffic where you were going. I doubt anyone has done this in the last 60 years.

Ahem!
*raises hand*

 

[Lozz360]

I think you may be being a bit naughty there. The UK HC also has (or had) that as a way of telling a constable directing traffic where you were going. I doubt anyone has done this in the last 60 years.

I’m being serious. Check this link for yourself if you wish,
http://www.highwaycode.com.ng/vi-hands-signals.html
Then tell me if I am still being naughty!

 

[mjr]

Ahem!
*raises hand*

Are you going straight on, then?

 

[toffee]

I think you may be being a bit naughty there. The UK HC also has (or had) that as a way of telling a constable directing traffic where you were going. I doubt anyone has done this in the last 60 years.

Funnily enough the driver in the car in front of me a couple of days ago used hand signals.

Cannot remember what car he was driving but it was so old the indicators were flashing rear lights