Let's post here about examples from your countries like bad signage, bad roads... telephone posts in centre of road and stuff like that

Let's point out stuff which shouldn't exist roads branch :)

Pics are welcome


http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/5/6103/z6103505X.jpg

Poland :bash:

Croatia

(focus yourself on destination Ploče)

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/ixic/pc230581zs0.jpg

and 10 km after

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/ixic/pc230583pv7.jpg

:nuts:

:lol: Every single destination is flawed here. Unbelievable :bash:

A similar thread in polish subforum with lots of pictures :D (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=272514&page=175)

I was inspired by this thread ;)

But now can see worldwide examples ! :D

IMO this is quite stupid. Those overhead cameras should have been placed further from that sign.

http://www.dialnice.info/album_pic.php?pic_id=788
source: http://www.dialnice.info/album_page.php?pic_id=788

^^ If that counts, Belgium has hundreds of those.

Belgian style infrastructure :D

in my city we have new crossroad with traffic lights and they have put stop sign and pedestrian crossing sign just in front of traffic lights, which are quite invisible now :S

On the Dutch wegenforum (www.wegenforum.nl) we have a section with "wegweizers". A wegweizer is a misspelling of the correct wegwijzer, which means a road sign, hence a wegweizer is a road sign that has a mistake on it. Over the years, hundreds of examples have been collected, most of them are road numbers not shown as they should be (especially direct/indirect signage) and spelling errors on signs.

By the way, what's meant with Cretinism (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cretinism)?

By the way, what's meant with Cretinism (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cretinism)?

At first i thought that this is a new thread dedicated to radi... :lol:

By the way, what's meant with Cretinism (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cretinism)?

in most slavic languages that word is used to sign dumb, stupid people, generally - idiots (shouldn't be misplaced with illness with same name, although it comes from it probably), i'm sure it is in other languages similar, isn't it??

Well, I took it from a dictionary :)

I looked for a English word for Polish 'kretynizm'

At first i thought that this is a new thread dedicated to radi... :lol:

Ditto. :lol:

Belgian style infrastructure :D

http://dd50.inducks.org/wegen/imgz/z003/118n43n357n382onzichtbaar.jpg

Croatia

(focus yourself on destination Ploče)


Dubrovnik: 205 ------> 194 (-11)
Ploce: 98 -----------> 108 (+10)
Makarska: 68 -------> 54 (-14)

:nuts:

Here in Portugal we have also lots of these things :lol:

Croatia

(focus yourself on destination Ploče)



I got crazy because of this when heading to Plitvička Jezera last summer! Pity that I did not take any picture.

I got crazy because of this when heading to Plitvička Jezera last summer! Pity that I did not take any picture.

did you take D1 or A1?

did you take D1 or A1?

Rijeka => Karlovac => Slunj. I'm not sure whether this is the best way but I forgot my map in the hotel that time :)

khm, i haven't noticed there some wrong (official) signs. maybe you got confused because there are 2 entrances which are quite far from each other, i'd say near 10 km.

khm, i haven't noticed there some wrong (official) signs. maybe you got confused because there are 2 entrances which are quite far from each other, i'd say near 10 km.

I remember at least 2 points where the signs are confusing. After passing the 1st one, I was not sure whether me or the sign was wrong, after the 2nd I was pretty sure...

Anyway I might be wrong since I was quite angry due to another "clever" signs... 60 kmph limit on a straight stretch etc.

This road is exactly on the Dutch-Belgian border near Sas van Gent.
http://home.wxs.nl/~fluks4/wegen/b016/sas6070_marina.jpg

So you can drive 70 km/h, but only 60 when overtaking? :D

^^ I bet one of these signs is closer to the border, so everything is OK ;)

BTW Do you often have 70 in build-up area?

Actually the border is on the middle of the road. Right is Belgium = 70, left is Netherlands = 60.

70 km/h in urban areas is common for arterials in the Netherlands. They usually have no cyclists or direct pedestrian crossings on it.

Right is Belgium = 70, left is Netherlands = 60.

I see now. Even the cars are parked on 'their' side :D

But how does it work? Cars driving on the left side (coming to the camera) can drive 60, while cars on the other side can do 70?

^^ Yeas, and more precisely: on the left side of road's axis you can drive 60, on the right one - 70, so it also means that...
...you can drive 70 km/h, but only 60 when overtaking

http://img.motorpasion.com/2007/12/tramo-demencial-faro-sabinal.jpg

^^ Yeas, and more precisely: on the left side of road's axis you can drive 60, on the right one - 70, so it also means that...
you can drive 70, but only 60 when overtaking


So you can only overtake in one direction :lol:

Why would they keep it like this? Just because Zeeland is the province that no one cares about?

Croatia

(focus yourself on destination Ploče)

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/ixic/pc230581zs0.jpg

and 10 km after

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/ixic/pc230583pv7.jpg

:nuts:

I think its because Ploce is to the other side ! :nuts:

few pics from Israel.

sing for midgets
http://www.mifgaim.co.il/media/301152376.jpg

http://www.mifgaim.co.il/media/306488037.jpg

^^Can you only cross there when you're 50 cm or less tall? :D

^^Can you only cross there when you're 50 cm or less tall? :D

You can jump as well.:D

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/3164577223_f49670683a.jpg?v=0

Hwy. 49 south of Grass Valley, California.

Crossposted from http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=25585204&postcount=795 :

One of my favorites: bridge over a bifurcation, showing the narrow shoulder widths. As with most bridges in SC, there's a sign giving the overhead clearance even if it's obviously far in excess of any standard. On this one, though, the clearance is listed as 15'-10" (4.8m). "WTF?" I thought. "That bridge looks a lot higher than that, and the other roadway is a lot closer to the bridge." So after I crossed under the bridge I glanced over at the sign over the other roadway, which said "Clearance 19'-9"! The fricking idiots swapped the signs. :bash:
http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/Himg401/scaled.php?server=401&filename=carywr018xpm9.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=480

Croatia

(focus yourself on destination Ploče)

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/ixic/pc230581zs0.jpg

and 10 km after

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/ixic/pc230583pv7.jpg



"Aw, come on, you didn't really want to go to Ploče, did you?"

This road is exactly on the Dutch-Belgian border near Sas van Gent.
http://home.wxs.nl/~fluks4/wegen/b016/sas6070_marina.jpg

Could it be they put the "Zone 60" sign at the wrong side (not left or right, I mean the other direction)? Perhaps the sign we're seeing was actually supposed to be the end of the Zone 60...

Weird anyway.

Greetings,
Glodenox

"Aw, come on, you didn't really want to go to Ploče, did you?"

i didn't :D and i never think serious about those distance signs, it would be enough for me if they would round all distances on 10 because i naver believe so precisely to them :D

Me neither. We also have such cases, and it often happens that distances just aren't right, even when the sign is new. But they aren't useless either; distances are still correct more or less. Another example:
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee119/Verso1/a1a5028am2.jpg
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee119/Verso1/a1a5033dm9.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/2hoyd52.jpg

I remember there being a similar situation near where I used to live in Newbury, England. What, I ask you, is the function of a roundabout with connections in only two directions?

^^ Possibly there were ramps initially planned but never built.

^^ Possibly there were ramps initially planned but never built.

I thought of that, but I don't see why they wouldn't close off the sections of the roundabout that make it a complete circle so that through traffic does not have to give way.

Is that in Spain, possibly near Madrid?

Is that in Spain, possibly near Madrid?

Yes, I was looking at the stack interchange that was posted in the other thread, and followed the M-40 a short distance to the west. How did you identify it?

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17418541
http://static2.bareka.com/photos/medium/17418541.jpg
Electric posts in the street (Tirana, Albania). :D

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17418639
http://static4.bareka.com/photos/medium/17418639.jpg
Again the same street ;)

Yes, I was looking at the stack interchange that was posted in the other thread, and followed the M-40 a short distance to the west. How did you identify it?

The road looks new, and has typical SW European markings. I knew Madrid has a lot of new motorways including a collector/express setup.

Arid landscape and large right of ways in combination with roundabouts and aereal developments... all signs point towards Spain and Madrid in particular.

http://i39.tinypic.com/23ms1s.jpg

Just what is the speed limit here, 50 or 70? :lol:

50.

Signs always go before other road markings.

Reminds me of the picture in the highway pranks thread :D

http://www.bordermail.com.au/multimedia/images/large/426394.jpg

A couple from Brisbane, Australia...

This northbound-to-NWbound left turn slip lane at the corner of Creek and Old Cleveland Roads, Carindale (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=Creek%20road%20and%20Old%20Cleveland%20Road%2C%20Carindale), has no signage.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5954/creekroadyl3.png

The road markings indicate that left-turning traffic has to merge, but nearly all such intersections in Brisbane have a "Turn Left at Any Time with Care" sign (the equivalent of a "Give Way" or "Yield" sign, but only used in such situations.) So when there is traffic on the NWbound carriageway, left-turning traffic is unsure whether to merge or stop. It's made worse by the fact that while the dotted lines continue on until the border of the image, the merging lane is only the width of a full lane for half that distance, as you can see - so people who try to merge find that they have a much shorter distance to do so than expected. Most people do not try and merge, but instead stop and wait for a gap in traffic. But as a pedestrian, I once witnessed a rear-end collision where the car in front was stopping, while the car behind was trying to merge.

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Then there's this nonsense on the Ipswich Motorway at the Stuart Street exit, Goodna (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=ipswich%20motorway%20and%20stuart%20street%2C%20goodna), a western suburb of the Brisbane metro area:

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4202/ipscf6.png

^^ I don't see why an exit at Stuart Street is needed in the first place. There's a full diamond at Church Street less than a kilometre to the east; why not just close that exit off altogether?

^^ I agree; Ipswich Mwy has too many exits and entrances altogether.
Though with the impending upgrade, it could be on its way out - I haven't seen any plans for the area though.

Tram lines crossing the roadways a total of five times on and near the multi-lane Elizabeth Street and Flemington Road roundabout (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=elizabeth%20street%20and%20flemington%20road%20melbourne), Melbourne, Australia. It appears on Street View that although one crossing are signalised, the other four just feature "Give Way" signs.

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9155/melb1en1.png

Spelling error in Steenwijk:

Nie -> Niet
(sounds stupid in Dutch)
http://i42.tinypic.com/11tly1c.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/2912ck7.jpg

The whole white sign is stupid though. The blue sign already only allows through traffic, and they add a sign "so do not turn right". (what, are we stupid?)

Haha, sign for dummies. The best part is the word "dus" (so). If they just wrote "do not turn right", but adding "so" sounds really dumb.

"Nie" is some kind of slang. Probably they only had one 't' left for this sign :lol:

Nie sounds like hillbilly Dutch.

Wouldn't it be easier to just use this sign:

http://www.tomputtemans.com/images/c31b.gif

I could be wrong, but I think that's used a lot more in the world... It would take about 15 seconds before I'd actually understand what that blue sign with the upwards arrow means because I've never ever seen it anywhere before. So basically, the undersign isn't such a bad idea (though it will probably only help Belgians and South-African people ^_^)

EDIT: To explain the text on the undersign better: it literally says "So do not turn right". The "so" shouldn't be added indeed.

Greetings,
Glodenox

I think they should use those signs too, but for some reason they've stopped using them in NL.

In the Brisbane suburb of St Lucia, there's a street named Coleridge St.
But when the bus stop signs were replaced, they misspelt the street as Coldridge St.
Later, when the street name signs were replaced, they also misspelt those as Coldridge St.
And later still, when some additional street name signs arrived, the street was misspelt as Cold Ridge St.

I look forward to driving on Gold Beach St in a few years’ time…

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And here’s what you get if you have no imagination when naming roads (also in the suburbs of Brisbane (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&q=mount+cotton+road,+sheldon,+qld&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=au&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title))…

So, are we taking Mount Cotton Road, Mount Cotton Road or... Mount Cotton Road? (In yellow).

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/432/sheldonih0.jpg

Actually, they ended up renaming a 300m stretch of the east-west Mount Cotton Rd to the east of the reservoir bridge to Broadwater Rd, to avoid confusion at the intersection. Google Maps and Live Local incorrectly don’t show this though.

Serbia... (thanks to liman_drzava (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=31839362&postcount=14))

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6908/srpskidrumie8.jpg

Some bizarre junctions in the UK...

http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/57-58-59.shtml
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/diag/57-58-59.gif

http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/60-560.shtml
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/diag/60-560.gif

An enjoyable eastbound-to-northbound movement in this one:
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/58-577.shtml
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/diag/58-577.gif

Uh-oh
http://www.denexa.com/roadgeek/motivator6187663.jpg

Thats unbelievable

:crazy:

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/images/forest/rd_fill_fail2.jpg

http://www.monkeyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/exit-enter-error.jpg

http://punchingkitty.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/trucksinks625feb11.jpg

2. Turned around, most likely
3. 'I told ya not to park here!' ;)

Well here in Switzerland there ins`t much wierd stuff to see...

Maybe this one:
http://static2.bareka.com/photos/medium/19886677.jpg
GPS+ HQ: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19886677
So much signs for this "roundabout" on a parking area...

^^ The weirdest stuff in Switzerland is when you get a permission to drive 80 km/h just before a sharp turn, or in a steep slope on a narrow local road.

Well, it hard to see the sign when yu're behind it.

Well, it hard to see the sign when yu're behind it.

Well the roundabout is for nothing. Its for protect the "Lamp"...

Well one more from my Thailand trip last month.

Ko Samui:

http://static2.bareka.com/photos/medium/19725941.jpg
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19725941

2. Turned around, most likely
Not possible, this is the same image with the sign rotated 180°, like it would be possible in real life (so not mirrored).

http://www.tomputtemans.com/images/RotatedSign.jpg

That sign should normally be placed in a situation where there's a smaller street where you have to give priority to the car at the other side... But I can't say it's well positioned there...

Greetings,
Glodenox

Well here in Switzerland there ins`t much wierd stuff to see...

Maybe this one:
http://static2.bareka.com/photos/medium/19886677.jpg
GPS+ HQ: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19886677
So much signs for this "roundabout" on a parking area...

How about this Dutch one... It's not even for cars, but for cyclists...
http://www.ad.nl/multimedia/archive/00201/Schenkelweg_Spijken_201163h.jpg

A roundabout for cyclists :hilarious Typically Dutch :D

:nuts:

i wonder when will they present cloverleaf intersection for cyclists :D

^^Or a stack for cyclists :D

From our Polish thread (200 pages :lol: )

Pedestrian Crossings :nuts:

http://www.phototrans.eu//images/photos/big/9/305725.jpg

http://www.gs24.pl/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=GS&Date=20090213&Category=SZCZECIN&ArtNo=286898603&Ref=AR&MaxW=580&border=0&title=1

http://images44.fotosik.pl/51/27bd00ad28bad665.jpg

Some roadsigns :P

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5199/drogatm7.jpg

http://lorenc.home.pl/kr92/1.jpg

http://i.wp.pl/a/f/jpeg/19742/remont_bydgoszcz.jpeg

Sign says "Tree IN street"

http://images26.fotosik.pl/85/c6af63101f85ed1b.jpg


Extremely long cycle lane :lol:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2612461289_86df1e7af8_b.jpg

No comment :lol:

http://www.semtex.pl/img/image_01394.jpg

http://www.semtex.pl/img/image_03357.jpg

Try not to lose your mind :nuts:

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1582/sulejowskarondo20071201qr5.jpg

Some pavement

http://images37.fotosik.pl/24/ac1afbad7a47aef6.jpg

Ok, that's all for now, that's link to thread
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=272514

I saw some of those 'inaccessible' pedestrian crossings in Slovakia and the Czech Republic as well. Quite hilarious actually :lol:

This is actually not that hard, it seems. The right lane is a bypass for the roundabout, the center lane goes onto the right lane of the roundabout, the left lane on the left lane of the roundabout.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1582/sulejowskarondo20071201qr5.jpg

I thought this thread could use some boosting:

here the wonders of hungarian construction
what happened here? probably they got paid for laying the asphalt.....but not for uprooting the tree they cut:


http://sunflowerdesigns.hu/tmp/fotohost/0401.jpg

:lol:

Here is another one... http://www.rtl.hr/index.php?cmd=show_video&video_id=2672

:lol: :nuts: :lol:

At least its a double wide. You can see the paint! Originally they painted one right through the F'IN TREEE! and then thought better of it

I thought this thread could use some boosting:

here the wonders of hungarian construction
what happened here? probably they got paid for laying the asphalt.....but not for uprooting the tree they cut:

If you have SUV you can park there.:D

From Croatia...

Not in use since 1991:

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/1078/dsc038251.jpg (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc038251.jpg)

But, be careful!

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9448/dsc039731.jpg (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc039731.jpg)

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/4719/dsc039611.jpg (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc039611.jpg)

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6933/dsc039641.jpg (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc039641.jpg)
link:http://www.zeljeznice.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9166&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 @narcis

^^ Good Lord... :lol:

An Irish contribution or two (not taken by me, from boards.ie)

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=52164&d=1204583653

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v458/THE_Chris533976/IMG_5851.jpg

oh my Lord, this is funny.

The post in the road is a standard thing when building new roads and stands there in most cases for a few days until it's removed.

The post in the road is a standard thing when building new roads and stands there in most cases for a few days until it's removed.

The Irish pole was there for a while until some newspapers published the photo and it was gone the next day. :)

This site (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-month/book.htm) has pictures of wierd cycle paths, mostly in Britain.

Like this

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-month/hulme.jpg

or this

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-month/york-fence.jpg

I love that last one. The guy's riding along on his bicycle and then bam, out of nowhere a fence. :laugh:

i wonder when will they present cloverleaf intersection for cyclists :D

hahaha. speedlimit sign for cyclists

somewhere in Croatia... :nuts:

http://www.shrani.si/f/3Y/2r/45BL1mUr/post-11595-1236679118.jpg

^^ hillarious... :rofl:

those spots look awfully small...and also freshly painted ;)

those spots look awfully small...and also freshly painted ;)

This is probably the reason.

Is it a coincidence that a Slovenian guy posted this picture? :D

^^ It`s a conspiracy! :lol:

Another masterpiece from Croatia:

http://www.shrani.si/f/2D/9D/1EPgEwRV/1/dolgdan.jpg

And penalty for wrong parking in Maribor: :lol:

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/461/2433306drevo0ln.jpg

The first one was somewhere in DLM, but I don't remember the explaination for this (though there was one)

^^ Pwned :lol:

^^ It`s a conspiracy! :lol:

Another masterpiece from Croatia:
http://www.shrani.si/f/2D/9D/1EPgEwRV/1/dolgdan.jpg[/IMG]

whats the problem with it?

1 day means: between 6 and 24

if you dont go away till 24 you have to pay 50kn...

somewhere in Croatia... :nuts:

http://www.shrani.si/f/3Y/2r/45BL1mUr/post-11595-1236679118.jpg

Would you park your vehicle on the freshly painted surface?

:cheers:

those spots look awfully small...and also freshly painted ;)

This is probably the reason.

Would you park your vehicle on the freshly painted surface?

:cheers:

it is organized conspiracy against parking payment. photo was taken in Osijek and most of those cars are from people who are living in that street.

the person who invented paralell parking should be shot in the face*


* what a thing to say for my 700th post huh?

What's wrong with parallel parking? It's often the only possibility in narrow streets....

What's wrong with parallel parking? It's often the only possibility in narrow streets....

it could be hated by women and some men with womens' parking abilities :D

^^ My car is often too big (Ford Crown Victoria (http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/images/photos/full_ford_crown_victoria.jpg)) for parallel parking. At least with 'regular' parking I can let the back stick out. My motto is if I want my ass hanging outta the back of my parking spot, that's my problem :D

Dutch parking spots are rather short though, like only 4 - 4.5 meters, sometimes 5 meters. But why do you need a driving bathtub anyway :D

Here it seems parking markings are just to point where is "general area" for parking, and it is up to people to use it best as they can :)


http://www.shrani.si/f/3Y/2r/45BL1mUr/post-11595-1236679118.jpg

Maybe they were painting it that day :)

(dont know the story, but in my town, tenants of one building protested for not being able to choose parking so they also decided to park around, although they were just lazy IMO)

Dutch parking spots are rather short though, like only 4 - 4.5 meters, sometimes 5 meters. But why do you need a driving bathtub anyway :D

Bathtub, I like that :D

It's comfortable. Like an ocean liner.

I'm actually better at parallel parking than at regular nose-in parking. :nuts:

The street pictured though, seems wide enough for angle parking.

The street pictured though, seems wide enough for angle parking.

but if it isnt, there is enough space to widen it... :lol:

NSW, Australia - photo credit: Winston Yang

(Speed limits are km/h.)

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9913/sptu3.jpg

Bairnsdale, VIC, Australia - photo credit: Bairnsdale Advertiser, scanned by Darren Hodges
Found at: http://archive.aussiehighways.com/msg12139.html

http://archive.aussiehighways.com/msg12139/Slow_Point_1.jpg

NSW, Australia - photo credit: Winston Yang

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9913/sptu3.jpg

Sadly, this is common thing in many countries, including my own.:ohno:

It would be better if that left picture was in miles per hour :D

I think that even considering km per hour would make an exciting trip to nearby lawn.:lol:

It would be better if that left picture was in miles per hour :D

Luckily the right one isn't :D

Sign says "Tree IN street"

http://images26.fotosik.pl/85/c6af63101f85ed1b.jpg

So they put a sign instead of buying a chainsaw??:nuts::lol:

^^ 'cause greenies didnt allow to cut it... :bash:

There used to be a tree growing in a street in my city (i never saw it though) but i remember when it was on the news cause it fell down in a storm. (it was all rotten out inside)

imho every city should have a unit that examines all the trees with ultrasound

Problem? No problem!

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6745/lazyjobjpg.jpg

http://this-world-is.boldlygoingnowhere.org/andinet/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/odds-sods/road_marking2.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuOo8x3WXWE/SbFg1gCa2gI/AAAAAAAAfhA/tqy61B6wTFw/s400/Shit_Road_Markings.jpg

^^Where are the upper two pics taken? :lol:

Lol, I got that above pic in my office too.

The very last one? :D

Hehe no, I want to be able to eat at my office.

This one:
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6745/lazyjobjpg.jpg

Haha, sign for dummies. The best part is the word "dus" (so). If they just wrote "do not turn right", but adding "so" sounds really dumb.

Oh, you see that a lot. Probably the most abundant (and hilarious) one is:

[sign indicating a bicycle path]

[sign underneath: "dus niet brommen"]

Especially the ambiguous meaning of the word "brommen": in this case, it's referring to the "bromfiets" or moped, but it can also mean 'to grumble'. In other words: you shouldn't be grumbling that you can't drive your moped on a bicycle path...:lol::nuts:

My avatar is a nice example.

Translation:

90
does not apply to bicycles

Sofia:


http://i.dir.bg/CMS/2009/04/28/a_105245.jpg
http://i.dir.bg/CMS/2009/04/28/a_105249.jpg


Those should be bicycle lanes... I guess people who painted them have never got on a bike...
Особености на велоалеите в София...

http://kaladan.hammer.bg/photos/bikefail.jpg

http://kaladan.hammer.bg/photos/bikefail2.jpg

Not wrong per se, but I find these funny.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3652/3500527283_ea697c461f_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3601/3500530327_188be8eb8b_b.jpg

Very exact sign in Austria:
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z202/keber1/razno/malnitz-sign.jpg
This is a bit after a sign for 80 speed limit, for 1320 metres.:lol:

In Romania:

http://www.realitatea.net/media/image/200905/w480/image_124137196391365800_1.jpg

http://smihai.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/stalp1.jpg

http://smihai.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/stalp2.jpg

http://www.realitatea.net/media/image/200903/w480/image_123782509527857000_1.jpg

This one goes through a building :lol::lol::lol:
http://image.stirileprotv.ro/media/images///400x300/Feb2009//60242997.jpg

So, what's it gonna be?

http://img.thedailywtf.com/images/200610/stopDontStop.jpg

Look in the low right corner :D

http://i40.tinypic.com/1zew7bo.jpg

Cyclists should be upside down here.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2431/3689550411_dd3a348310_o.jpg

New roundabout in Püspökladány:

http://img7.indafoto.hu/3/9/28459_afb10ddfce75e4a231f083365f04e08f/4632123_890fb6f7597fa2e45c6d46b1647aaa56_m.jpg
(urbanista.blog.hu (http://urbanista.blog.hu/2009/07/07/hihetetlen_korforgalom_puspokladanyban))

How come they don't move those poles when they build a road there? I assume there's another company that has to take care of that which is a lot slower to do its job than the road construction company?

Greetings,
Glodenox

Typical Belgian.

New signs, but forget to trim the trees, so you can't read the new signs. :nuts:

http://www.roadpics.net/temp/N746a.jpg

I assume there's another company that has to take care of that which is a lot slower to do its job than the road construction company?

you assume correctly
e.on is a biájcs

http://www.shrani.si/f/2U/FJ/4UlZT9B9/img0166.jpg"Sever" = north. This is taken when the north of Maribor is already behind us. Luckily the motorway isn't open yet.

A new subdivision was built a few years ago which was accessed by a driveway onto a road where the limit was 80km/h. The driveway could only just old two cars but to make things even more difficult, they put a large palm tree on an island with hardly any room left for traffic.
They have since then removed it, I think.

Someone turned these signs around, or they installed them wrong.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2571/3749735336_18ff753f4a_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3507/3749735520_f36858311e_o.jpg

Someone turned these signs around, or they installed them wrong.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2571/3749735336_18ff753f4a_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3507/3749735520_f36858311e_o.jpg
Or maybe the signs are right, but someone turned to road around.

^^

That's just a crafty revenue enhancement technique. :lol:

Hungary :dunno:

http://kepfeltoltes.hu/090723/1137224505DSCF3832_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg

^^^^


Hungarian pork barrel :lol: :lol:

:uh:

Install those in Amsterdam, and enforce them, great way to bridge the financing gap on the subway :D

this is at road beside Balaton lake between Balatonmáriafürdő and Balatonberény. here is one more from panoramio:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/20765477.jpg

i dont think cyclists actually know the meaning of the signS

i dont think cyclists actually know the meaning of the signS

Cycle path. :lol:

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1427135,00.jpg

http://static.rp-online.de/layout/showbilder/6878-Platz3_FF.jpg

http://www.fs-hartmann-gmbh.de/images/v004.jpg

http://www.hartl.info/images/684.jpg

http://www.carmondo.de/upload/images/post/20080126165829_schild7.jpg

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/4381/dpa3277.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,752040,00.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,752607,00.jpg

;)
http://www.kupilas.de/media/7/nikolaus_frei.jpg

These are not so weird, I had to follow this kind of detour once near Dortmund.
http://www.fs-hartmann-gmbh.de/images/v004.jpg

yeah, it might look complicated, but it isn't at all. it reminds me to this one (http://www.prometna-zona.com/znakovi/znakovi_obavijesti/84_smjer_kretanja_vozila_koje_namjerava_skrenuti_ulijevo_na_krizanju_na_kojem_je_skretanje_ulijevo_za/smijer_kretanja_ako.gif)which is very normal and often

http://www.hartl.info/images/684.jpg

I don't get this one. How are you supposed to drive to get to Osnabrück?

^^
I think it's supposed to mean the same thing as the other detour sign Chris posted above. Except, whoever put up the sign doesn't like Osnabrück. :) ... no wait, Weyhe. :nuts:

I don't get this one. How are you supposed to drive to get to Osnabrück?

Go up and turn right on the furthest way exit, which I preumes the gos under the road, and back onto the main road on the other side, then you exit again, go under the road and you will be going towards the locations on the side...


I THINK :nuts:

Just follow the cloverleaf 3 times...

http://www.klawitter.de/schilder/vorfahrt.png

http://www.klawitter.de/schilder/umleitung.png

i guess upper shield beats bottom shield
http://p3.focus.de/img/gen/V/J/HBVJA7dba70_Pxgen_r_309xA.jpg

do not enter, only left if you aren't smart enough to figuer out urself you shouldn't enter a closed street
http://www.rsa-95.de/galerie/DSC00239.jpg

i guess bottom shield beats upper shield
http://www.rsa-95.de/galerie/4cxed8ef.jpg

go only straight in a straigthen street, do not turn left or right where it's impossible to so!
http://www.rsa-95.de/galerie/88pwb.jpg

No passants allowed, only women with childs
http://www.rsa-95.de/galerie-auswahl/bh18.jpg

http://www.rsa-95.de/galerie-auswahl/sdh1.jpg

http://p3.focus.de/img/gen/b/A/HBbAPKAt_Pxgen_r_467xA.JPG

:)
http://p3.focus.de/img/gen/D/p/HBDpBxVX_Pxgen_r_467xA.jpg

no drinking water
http://p3.focus.de/img/gen/D/I/HBDIAMRaq7p_Pxgen_r_380xA.jpg

choose one
http://data.lustich.de/bilder/l/17920-dreifache-umleitung.jpg

Just follow the cloverleaf 3 times...

ohh it's a bridge! I recognize this now, haha!

a biger version of the photo
http://www.motorradshop-wuerzburg.de/gfx/umleitung.670x533.jpg

omg i am stupid! :D
http://imblog.aufeminin.com/blog/D20090607/359253_737388252_behindertentoilette_H174343_L.jpg

http://usualredant.de/images/drogen/lesen-denken-posten-umleitung.gif

No bycicles, expect bycicles
http://stefanie.westphaelinger.de/assets/images/Verkehrsschild.jpg

Bad sign. We had the same in Koper, but I doubt any such sign was installed, just signs when you had to turn. Perhaps people didn't understand why so many right turns, but signing cities on detour signs (yellow/orange) would've made things much easier and more understandable.

Bad sign. We had the same in Koper, but I doubt any such sign was installed, just signs when you had to turn. Perhaps people didn't understand why so many right turns, but signing cities on detour signs (yellow/orange) would've made things much easier and more understandable.

can't disagree!

some more
http://img8.myimg.de/InteressanteBeschilderung9a705.jpg

http://img8.myimg.de/schilderwalddortmund2000163af.jpg

http://i5.tinypic.com/4m1o0t0.jpg

Where can I go? (Piacenza, Italy, some roads closed for works, the panel is in the in the bottom right corner of this "map")

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/4326/dsc06995ghq.jpg (http://img44.imageshack.us/i/dsc06995ghq.jpg/)

http://p3.focus.de/img/gen/V/J/HBVJA7dba70_Pxgen_r_309xA.jpg
Theoretically speaking, this means that instead of still being in a zone where you're not allowed to drive more than 30, you may now only drive up to 30 until you've passed an intersection. Could've been made a lot easier by just placing the "end zone 30" at that intersection.

Nice collection of signs! Sometimes you wonder why nobody noticed those big errors in those signs before they were installed...

Greetings,
Glodenox

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/BlasterMillennia/BlasterMillennia1/sk1.png
"THE [something] CENTRE - LABYRINTH". The [something] is either "DEVIC" or "DEVIL".

Theoretically speaking, this means that instead of still being in a zone where you're not allowed to drive more than 30, you may now only drive up to 30 until you've passed an intersection. Could've been made a lot easier by just placing the "end zone 30" at that intersection.


Huh? The speed limit is 30 as long as you stay on that road. If you turn onto a different street it's no longer 30. Within the zone it's also 30 if you turn onto a side street. At least that's how I would understand it.

No, within city limits there is a fixed speed limit (mostly 50 km/h). Other signposted limits are only valid until the next intersection, unless they're a "zone". So Glodenox is right that the 30 limit only applies to the next intersection, because you are leaving the 30 zone.

^^

Is that a Benelux thing? I've never heard of a speed limit sign only being valid until the next intersection. I'm also pretty sure that's not the case in .at

I thought it was a Europe-wide thing based on the convention of Geneva.

Remember it only counts if

1) the speed limit is higher or lower than 50 km/h (general urban speed limit)
2) it's not in a "zone"

Hm. Now that you mention it, it does make sense: If the speed limit is higher or lower, there needs to be a sign after every intersection for the people who come from the intersecting streets unless it's a zone.

What I didn't know is that if there's no sign after an intersection (and no sign ending the higher or lower limit) it automatically goes back to the standard city wide limit.

What went wrong with the person who painted these yellow lines? You see them all over the place on this Baustelle near Würzburg (A3 westbound). There are far worse examples than this one.

http://i25.tinypic.com/veci89.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/295pmo5.jpg

http://i26.tinypic.com/29w8umo.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/2roknq9.jpg

What's wrong with them? The left lane is probably 2m wide to make enough room for trucks on the right lane.

http://www.hartl.info/images/684.jpg

That would make a lot more sense if they'd drawn it with a bit of white space separating roads that are vertically separated. Assuming they are vertically separated!!

@Chris: They aren't straight :D

Sometimes they make almost a 90 degree turn, but I haven't made pictures of that situation, unfortunately.

Oh I saw only one pic a few minutes ago. They have just come loose, you'll see that in NL too sometimes.

New sign near Eindhoven. Antwerpen is not 46 but 76 kilometers from here. :eek:
http://www.dse.nl/~koef/jalbum/A2-Eindhoven/2009-Week29/slides/20090719-162001.jpg

http://www.autotouring.at/na_pro/wrapper/jpegs.php3?filename=leitartikel=/0906_schild_c_2.jpg

http://www.autotouring.at/na_pro/wrapper/jpegs.php3?filename=leitartikel=/0905_schilda_e_2.jpg

http://www.autotouring.at/na_pro/wrapper/jpegs.php3?filename=leitartikel=/0902_schilda_c_2.jpg

http://www.autotouring.at/na_pro/wrapper/jpegs.php3?filename=leitartikel=/0901_schilda_c_2.jpg

http://www.autotouring.at/na_pro/wrapper/jpegs.php3?filename=leitartikel=/07_09_schilda_b_0.jpg

http://www.autotouring.at/na_pro/wrapper/jpegs.php3?filename=leitartikel=/okt_08_schilda_d_0.jpg


(source: http://www.autotouring.at )

New sign near Eindhoven. Antwerpen is not 46 but 76 kilometers from here. :eek:
http://www.dse.nl/~koef/jalbum/A2-Eindhoven/2009-Week29/slides/20090719-162001.jpg
The age of the house movers is over. Here come the city movers! By the way: the image didn't show up, I had to quote your post to get the link :P

Many of the pictures above are clearly signs that have been turned around by other people, might confuse some people though.

Greetings,
Glodenox

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg72/lslcrew/73D88D09A0872B4EA985D4B6B8A77B49.jpg

^^ This looks like a serious situation. :P

@Chris: They aren't straight :D

Sometimes they make almost a 90 degree turn, but I haven't made pictures of that situation, unfortunately.

those temporary yellow lines ar not strongly glued to the asphalt because they must be easilly pilled off. that's why they get easily deformed.

What I didn't know is that if there's no sign after an intersection (and no sign ending the higher or lower limit) it automatically goes back to the standard city wide limit.

Where are you from? I had no idea that somewhere on the earth the speed limit (and any prohibitory sign) is still valid after the intersection.
How do those turning from the intersecting street know, what speed limit apples on the street?

any idea what this sing could mean? from hong kong
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1338295,00.jpg

:nuts:
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1338303,00.jpg

more stange shield from around the world, dont get afraid because the articles are in german langugae ;)

http://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrkultur/0,1518,k-7065,00.html

Do bad drivers count?
We get a lot of tourists who rent campervans and travel the country and to get up to the motorcamp near my house, the road splits into two different one way systems. This easily confuses some and we end up going up a narrow road the right way and end up coming face to face with a large camper coming the other way.
Also, this is a house in Baldwin Street in Dunedin which boasts the World's Steepest Street.
http://http://s570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/MichaelW_photos/?action=view&current=15042007.jpg

Can someone tell my why my pictures aren't showing?
Thanks. :okay:

I think you picked the wrong URL.

Where are you from? I had no idea that somewhere on the earth the speed limit (and any prohibitory sign) is still valid after the intersection.
How do those turning from the intersecting street know, what speed limit apples on the street?

That isn't true. For example, in Austria, sign isn't repeated after the intersection but it is still valid. But then, on the sideway, you have a sign telling you what speed limit is on the main road you are connecting to.

4 lanes to 1 lane in Valencia, Spain :lol:

Aquí van unas fotos del complejo, hechas hace una semana, el pasado 19-07-2009 Domingo:

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/AvFenix55/Fotos%20Urbanas/Valencia/AvCatalunyaTunelRotonda/P1010534.jpg


More pictures here: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=40348568&postcount=2401

Is there often congestion at that spot? Man, we should introduce that on the A2 in the Netherlands, that would be fun (except for those driving there)

:D

Geez... is that a toll plaza?

Looks like some near biiig interchange

It's shown U/C on Google Earth.

8 lane Avenida de Catalunya becoming V-21 Autovía.

Do bad drivers count?
We get a lot of tourists who rent campervans and travel the country and to get up to the motorcamp near my house, the road splits into two different one way systems. This easily confuses some and we end up going up a narrow road the right way and end up coming face to face with a large camper coming the other way.
Also, this is a house in Baldwin Street in Dunedin which boasts the World's Steepest Street.
http://http://s570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/MichaelW_photos/?action=view&current=15042007.jpg

Can someone tell my why my pictures aren't showing?
Thanks. :okay:

http://s570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/MichaelW_photos/?action=view&current=15042007.jpg

This shot was taken today (August in the northern hemisphere!) in Austria:

The sign says "Road closed for winter". :nuts:
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww38/glacial_snowman/misc/winter.jpg

7-2 lanes, thats crazy. Btw, where is that?

7-2 lanes, thats crazy. Btw, where is that?

Here: http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&ie=UTF8&ll=39.481612,-0.351203&spn=0.002513,0.007725&t=k&z=18

It's shown U/C though.

http://www.shrani.si/f/3B/rl/3MvzS9NP/cestninska60320482.jpg

They couldn't decide who will go first through ex-toll station.

:rofl:

:omg: :rofl: This could easily have been in Poland :D

ha ha dicks, one of them should stop before

OMG this is hilarious! outrageous! fantastic! this is even better than Matiz at Maribor bypass which couldn't decide wether to take an exit or not

x-type's enjoying this :D

http://www.shrani.si/f/3B/rl/3MvzS9NP/cestninska60320482.jpg

Idiots.

Here: http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&ie=UTF8&ll=39.481612,-0.351203&spn=0.002513,0.007725&t=k&z=18

It's shown U/C though.

It has been completed now. When I was on the tramway yesterday the tracks crossed the roundabout. The deviation on the southern side was no more in place.

x-type's enjoying this :D



Idiots.

well, not really, here in HR you can find idiots as well. but this case and the one with Matiz (i hope you remember it) are my favourites, and somehow both are from SLO

Lille (http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=Lille&ie=UTF8&z=13) and Rijsel (http://maps.google.be/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=Rijsel&sll=51.238508,4.824304&sspn=0.076091,0.154324&ie=UTF8&z=13)

Truckers often end up in the village of Lille, Belgium instead of the large city of Lille, France due to the inadequate signage in Belgium.

I suggest you use your GPS (correctly) or first take a course in Dutch/French exonyms when travelling through Belgium! Driving in Wallonia and looking for the city of Antwerp? You won't find it unless you know it's signed as Anvers. Same counts the other way round, driving around Flandres and looking for Liège or Mons? You won't find it unless you know they're signed as Luik and Bergen.

^^
uf, once i was in hurry at job and i've sent my lorry driver to some village in Austria in Steiermärkische Alpen, somewhere around Sankt Michael, and correct location was the same named city somewhere around Fulda, Germany, if i remember well. i had stopped him in the last moment before i saw my stupidity :D i forgot the name of that place.

I suggest you use your GPS (correctly) or first take a course in Dutch/French exonyms when travelling through Belgium! Driving in Wallonia and looking for the city of Antwerp? You won't find it unless you know it's signed as Anvers. Same counts the other way round, driving around Flandres and looking for Liège or Mons? You won't find it unless you know they're signed as Luik and Bergen.

Haha, that also happened to me once. I was expecting Liege and went right past the sign saying Luik. Eventually it dawned on me that Luik=Liege. :)

That's why I prefer cities to be signed in their native language. After all, signs are supposed to help drivers. They shouldn't be abused for political statements.

Those signs were already there before there were political struggles. They were placed when only the people of the region needed them. Nowadays the whole of Europe passes through and for them it is -indeed- completely not logical that one region uses the local language for places in another region.

So it's more something historical than political.

PS: I'm all for using the native language of the destination on signs. But then that has to be applied in the whole country and not just one region.

Greetings,
Glodenox

My two cents (from Czech Republic, except the last one):
http://image018.mylivepage.com/chunk18/829831/995/Doprava02.jpg

http://nd01.blog.cz/391/470/cb94cacb32_3004517_o2.jpg

http://nd01.blog.cz/040/656/61269ebbe6_3546452_u.jpg

http://magor.xf.cz/image/200406151526_P6153306.jpg

http://mm.denik.cz/5/92/100_1865_znacky_rimov_denik_clanek_solo.jpg

http://mm.denik.cz/62/94/jarosov_znacka_doprava_2311_denik_clanek_solo.jpg

The orange arrow marks the diversion route:
http://ondra.vanis.cz/pics/kuriozity/objizdka_do_slepe_ulice.jpg

"Horses"
http://dk.2i.cz/fotos/gallery/200508/14430.jpg
(this is actually correct from the legal point of view, but funny anyway)

What's this, road markers' training ground?
http://image018.mylivepage.com/chunk18/829831/995/Doprava04.jpg

And quite famous road sign from Montenegro (edit - not Croatia) for our Slovak friends:
http://motorky.ruina.cz/Motorky/Aktuality/018/kokoti.jpg
"Kokoti" means "cocks" in Slovak...

This is not in Croatia. Police car and uniform don´t match. Probably in Montenegro.

http://motorky.ruina.cz/Motorky/Aktuality/018/kokoti.jpg
"Kokoti" means "cocks" in Slovak...

nothing beats fucking: :lol: :cheers:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Fucking%2C_Austria%2C_street_sign.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

This is not in Croatia. Police car and uniform don´t macth. Probably in Montenegro.
Mea culpa. They have Kokoti as well. :)

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009080704024082589.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009080703583069084.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009080504594974587.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009080101174784217.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009072811180042892.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009072601411947428.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009072401443948031.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009072401441118656.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009072209284741934.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009071507193845130.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009071507163347357.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009071303244461899.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009071303210254769.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009070503063036320.jpg

http://miljons.com/im/lv_l_2009070211484611816.jpg

cretinism:

A condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to the untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones.

Mea culpa. They have Kokoti as well. :)

:cheers:

cretinism:

Right you are, Chris. The title of this thread is a fine example of "false friends trap". Maybe it should be changed to "Weird stuff and sheer moronism", or summat?

Well in some languages people will use the word cretin just like the word moron, I actually thought it was a funny title, maybe because I am Polish like the OP.

The Latvian ones are hilarious! :lol:

(of course, you can find similar examples all over Europe, not just Latvia) ;)

this "zone 30" is hilarious :lol:

(of course, you can find similar examples all over Europe, not just Latvia) ;)

All over the World. :laugh:

Look at the first text that shows up, when I enter "why" in Google.

http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q420/Ripley9895/LOL.jpg

:rofl:

Normal, you live there. ;)

Yeah, on the Dutch Google it doesn't work :D

It only works on Latvian Google ;)

Oh, never thought about it?:baaa::lol:

Of course, but that's why I added the ":D" smiley ;)

wait on your head
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz221/karim543/P8160001.jpg
walk upside down
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz221/karim543/P8160002.jpg

This is in Albania
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/qq75/albanian_photo/DSC_9352-1.jpg?t=1232557092

Ha ha, that's funny, someone put it upside down

http://i28.tinypic.com/2qcoylc.jpg

:ohno:

scroll down (http://www.vol.at/galerie-anzeigen/130531/Lamborghini-stuerzt-in-Schwarzachtobel) .... shame :dunno:

(btw: also a good overview about austrian emergency vehicles)

It only works on Latvian Google ;)

On the standard google.com it doesn't mention any specific country's awesomeness, but it's still funny:
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq330/nerdlydood/Untitled1-1.jpg

Huanggang, China:
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7695/img7551a.jpg
G45 Expressway entrance road, 2 km. ACTUAL INTERCHANGE, 30 KM.

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/6862/img7717.jpg
Just another 30 km. Hope you'll remember the stuff on the sign.
I'm not sure if the canola is actually blocking the roadway.

http://www.shrani.si/f/L/7X/2L8mQWwW/car02.jpg
http://www.shrani.si/f/2O/L2/Z4C6CYU/car04.jpg
http://www.shrani.si/f/g/L2/2aIAQJhA/car05.jpg

^ Straight in the eye! :lol:

Huanggang, China:
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7695/img7551a.jpg
G45 Expressway entrance road, 2 km. ACTUAL INTERCHANGE, 30 KM.

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/6862/img7717.jpg
Just another 30 km. Hope you'll remember the stuff on the sign.
I'm not sure if the canola is actually blocking the roadway.
i dont get it, can someone explain pls

你怎么能不明白？？？ :lol:

And in Israel:
http://www.ereverev.co.il/UploadImg/Articles/5134_1.jpg

i dont get it, can someone explain pls

The sign says 2 km to that interchange, while it should be 30 km (at least that's what Matchut says). On the second photo there's canola on the road.

Here are a few of my pics...

Go straight into the water: :P
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/2442187887_3887f98111.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/auswy/sets/72157622219469007/)

Just try and follow these road markings ;P
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6231/dsc08006.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/auswy/sets/72157622219469007/)

You must be blind if you miss this traffic light...
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/8782/dsc00749rm.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/auswy/sets/72157622219469007/)

An unusual "car care" product...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2061/2075669458_7be6e288f5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/auswy/sets/72157622219469007/)

This sign is real and correct. Good luck to any kid hit at 80km/h...
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2913/clipboard0255.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/auswy/sets/72157622219469007/)
Does Australia (QLD) have the world's fastest school zones? :P

"Attention, grass snakes" :)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Pozor_užovky.jpg/450px-Pozor_užovky.jpg

Something for cyclists:
http://www.k-report.net/discus/nahledy/276085.jpg

Cars transported with a ropeway in a Volkswagen's plant in Bratislava:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrtvcY-eEe0

Wow that's unique... :)

Not really:

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/8199/sanstitrefl6.jpg

http://www.alpinforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=12050

http://www.alpinforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=12050&start=25

http://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-522.html

This one is used mainly to transport materials to a dam, and leads to a small network of roads not connected to the rest of the world. The other cabin is for passenegers and opened to public, but the freight cabin is only for freight (up to nearly 20 tonnes).

It arrives here: http://maps.google.ch/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=it&geocode=&q=Robiei&sll=46.687131,9.063721&sspn=5.079754,9.832764&ie=UTF8&ll=46.44321,8.512977&spn=0.004983,0.009602&t=h&z=17

And starts from the end of the road to the south.

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z58/ciceron00/Aviso_preventivo_obras_AVE.jpg

Translation:
Caution
Gipsy children on the road


A little explanation: Due to the works of a new HSL in Galicia, lots of trucks started to use this road, which is close to a gipsy settlement. That road is the place where these gipsy children used to play. The sign was put by one of the inhabitants of that settlement, and they seem to be satisfied because the trucks drive slower. The municipality, however, wants to get it out of there because it's xenophobic.

Source, in Spanish: http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/coruna/2009/09/22/0003_7987480.htm

Some cases in Venezuela:

Where the hell is the Av. Libertador???? :lol:
http://www.soloenvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/barquisimeto-500x375.jpg

Translation: Hangover double vision???? :cheers:
http://www.soloenvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/av-sabaneta-zulia.jpg

Donkeys in the way xD
http://www.soloenvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/burrosenlavia.jpg

Multi use signs :nuts:
http://www.soloenvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/letrero-multiuso.jpg

Cows in the highway :)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2372/2170834590_145a298ef5.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2245/2170834158_45991aba0c.jpg

Translation: "I said you!, dont drive drunk!" :lol:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1254/975213682_b2f178d459.jpg

Translation: Do not stop here, don't be donkey:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/2175962195_913a5a8f8f.jpg

Direct TV "Underway"
http://www.esquizopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/puente.jpg

Natural Street Geiser!!...rainbow included ;)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/2401532200_e2587b0840.jpg

this is the romanian A2 highway
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i149/zosolino/11/HPIM1418.jpg
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i149/zosolino/11/24-10-06_1045.jpg

WTF^^^^^:O