Signage
Posted: Sun 15 April, 2007 Filed under: Charm School, Weirdness 2 Comments »Last weekend, a couple of new road signs appeared in Attleborough. They’re the flashing ‘slow down’ type, which are supposed to be effective against speeders. Yeah, yeah.
They’ve been installed in a 30mph area, but they’ve actually been set to somewhere around 20mph.
As such, they just flash at every single vehicle, telling them to slow down even though they’re well within the speed limit for the area. And as a result, they’re just being ignored. If they were set accurately, they might have some effect – but in this case no, people just ignore them.
Or, in my case, wave two fingers at them, and tell them to fuck off. I’m charming like that.
That’s pretty much been my reaction too. Strange that, eh?
In about three or four weeks you’re going to find that suddenly it’s a 20 mph zone. The same happened on a road here. Flashing signs were introduced about 6 weeks ago and two weeks ago, new speed limit signs, road markings and the rest.