ebikeerwidnes
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- Widnes
Strange Road Signs
- Thread starter DRM
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classic33
Leg End Member
I wonder if they're trying to say no way in?
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Maybe. Why don't you open it and ask?
DRM
Legendary Member
- Location
- West Yorks
Way back in the late 1970's I was serving on a trials team and temporarily stationed at Aberport in west Wales. During the time I was there it was my wedding anniversary and my wife arrived so that we could go out for a meal to celebrate. We decided to eat at a local pub (good food and good beer) and when we arrived the conversation in the room just stopped until we had sat down and started viewing the menu. From that point on everyone in the pub spoke Welsh exclusively and during the meal I sensed that my wife was a little distracted by a couple on a nearby table. At the end of our meal we paid and made to leave, at which point my wife turned to the woman on the table and spoke to her in perfect Welsh saying (something to the effect of) if you're going to slag off the English make sure the bu99erz can't understand you first
SWMBO had lived with an aunt for a few years and went to school in Caernarfon where they spoke Welsh exclusively. She used to curse me in Welsh too so I wouldn't know what she'd said/called me
Had a similar situation on holiday in France years ago, we got on great with our neighbours on the next caravan pitch to us, one morning we decided to say "Bonjour" to a particularly miserable woman who came past every morning, when we piped up she shouted something I couldn't pick up, but my neighbour said something back, equally unintelligible to me, at which point she scurried off, with a bright red face, we never saw her again, turns out she'd said, in Welsh " I don't speak bloody French, only Welsh" turns out my mate said "So do I" in Welsh, she didn't have a clue he was from North Wales as their caravan wasn't plastered in Welsh Flags, and Cymru stickers like hers was
SuffolkBlue
Senior Member
- Location
- Framlingham, Suffolk
Not exactly a strange road sign but here are the "New" 50mph gateway/threshold signs on A12 - can anyone see them? Threshold is approx 50 metres away here!!
Bristolian
Über Member
- Location
- Bristol, UK
I could be wrong (won't be the first time) and I'm sure someone with better knowledge will correct me if I am but I'm sure that one of our local IAM examiners (a serving police ARV driver) told a group of us that without the larger gateway signs they can't enforce the speed limit.
The 50 already existed immediately before the part they reduced from 60 to 50.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
When I was doing my IAM test teh instructor warned me of a little test one of the examiners had
WHen you got to a long straight road in one part of the Wirral you went from a 30 mph to 50mph
BUT
one of the signs showing it had been turned round so you could only see the back
just after you passed it the examiner would ask you what the speed limit is
I have no idea what the legal situation for something like that is
is the one of the signs is invisible - can you speed up - or could a Police Officer give you a ticket for doing 50???
Bristolian
Über Member
- Location
- Bristol, UK
Another sneaky examiner. I think they're bred specially
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I believe the speed limit would still be 50mph because the offence would be ignoring whatever Traffic Regulation Order set the speed limit and requires the sign, so you should not be penalised for driving up to the official speed rather than the signed one, but it's probably simplest to wait for the first repeater sign before accelerating and avoid having to waste your time fighting any penalty issued - or risking offending if they did ever really reduce it to a 30mph limit!
