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That sign usually means no entry for bikes so I was confused for a moment
Since the sign is turned towards the viewer, it just seems as if someone drunk placed it a few meters right from where it was supposed to be.
Also fits because tourists would ignore most posted signs.
Don't signs usually have a line through it when it means "no", or is that just american signage?
You must pay the rent
I can't pay the rent
We ain't got the money for the mortgage on the farm!
instructions unclear, the banana is up my ass
You missed the "Caution: A Bannana" sign then didn't you?
there were three bananas before the caution sign and I slipped
Also, stop signs are ~~hexagonal~~ octagonal and yield signs triangular so you could notice them even when they're not facing you.
Edit: octagon/hexagon
Or when covered in snow or if the sign is badly damaged
Stop signs are octagonal.
Red state. We can't afford the extra 2 sides.
European bike lanes (like this one should probably depict) are round and solid blue with a bike depicted on them.
In Europe, lanes, where biking is prohibited are denoted by a round white sign with a relative wide red border (circle) and a bike depicted at its center.
I feel like a single line through would have been the correct design choice, still, because in practically every other context, that's what's used (no smoking signs, for example).
Seems like many, many other places around the world put a line through for road signs (though a couple outside Europe don't, and even some inside Europe do): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_traffic_sign
My 2¢, Europe is wrong on this one, despite being right on so much else haha
if I didn't already know better, i would have interpreted these two signs to be synonymous.
Mandatory signs are road signs that are used to set the obligations of all traffic that uses a specific area of road. Most mandatory road signs are circular in shape and may use white symbols on a blue background with a white border, or black symbols on a white background with a red border, although the latter is also associated with prohibitory signs.
i am now more confused than I was before.
The white zone is for loading and unloading only. There is no parking in the white zone.
Learning Vienna Convention road signs takes a few minutes for the basic principles, an hour or two for the really arcane signs such as "watch out for carriages" and "levy ahead".
The system is superior to the North American hell system by a huge margin, not least of which because it allows me to drive to Spain or Czechia without needing to study their traffic laws and learn the local language. The signs will be very similar and their meanings otherwise easy to intuit.
Now let me blow your mind: you already do this in NA. But you stopped at yield signs and stop signs. Their shape is immediately recognizable and parseable even if you don't speak English or even if they are covered in snow (that's on purpose). Now just imagine every sign is like that instead of the designers giving up and writing some text on a yellow rectangle. "Road work ahead"? Bitch, just put a schematic road worker in a red triangle instead of making me read shit at 90 km/h, this ain't book club!
You can’t claim superiority just because a lot of countries adopted it, you can only claim wide adoption
… I joke have gone with your view on the assumption that it’s a newer standard so likely better thought out, but not from this thread. Y’all are convincing me of the opposite
Us system makes better use of shapes, colors, and slashes to be more explicit
US system uses a lot of text, which is unquestionably bad. Also, it uses more slashed singes, which has upsides, it is indeed more intuitive, but also downsides, it's more cluttered.
But it doesn't really matter because you need to learn the system in any way, there isn't one that is just intuitively known, and you have to learn both of them. And in this case I would prefer one that is more widely adopted.