All I know is, by the time I'd even begun to get my head around what was happening in that sign the first time I saw it, I was past both the sign and the intersection.
And with this, I'm convinced that almost nobody in the state could make a proper sign to save their life.
Cross Traffic Does Not Stop: Arrows are pointing the wrong way.
This is giving Oklahoma a run for their money in the shittiest signs department. However, Alabama's freeway guide sign quality seems to be much higher in that regard when you compare it to Oklahoma.
I think I'd rather have that bold font used above compared to Helvetica. Both are terrible for road signs. Though I can happily report most of the signs here are FHWA or Clearview (real ROAD fonts).
The font is Franklin Gothic on most of those, if anyone was wondering.
How you resisted leaping from the car and using anything you could to destroy this is beyond me.
I would have put this whole lot in "worst of road signs."
He seems to be on the sidewalk.
I wanted too, but I didn't want to get in trouble with the law. Besides, the only thing that I had that I could do reasonable damage with at the time was my car.
I was thinking about it, but I wasn't sure just how many of them would actually qualify for that thread (since some of them appear to just be standard signs with the wrong font), so I decided to make it easier on myself and put them all in this thread.
If anyone wants to cross-post them into that thread, feel free to do so.
Better question: Since all the weight limits are "10T" for all vehicle classes, why bother separating out an excessive amount of vehicle classes and icons at all? The sign could have been less than half the size.
And since the signs are for the rated gross weight of the truck, you're not going to find 5 and 6 axle trucks with a weight of 10 tons or fewer.
Well, at least you always have THE FULL WRATH OF THE INTERNET at your disposal.
I think this is the first example I've seen of km/h actually being specified on a Canadian speed limit sign.
Depends on the Province. Some, such as British Columbia and Ontario, use "KM/H". Others, such as Alberta and Manitoba (among others), do not.
And in the case of Ontario, depends on the municipality within the province. MTO uses "km/h", as does Niagara Region and some other border municipalities. Toronto and Hamilton do not.
I think that 5-piece Cullman assembly has been posted in the Worst Of Road Signs a few times. Usually, Alabama state route signs are fairly consistent, but a few uglies show up.
Just to remind people I guess.
Is it just me, or is this completely meaningless?
Not meaningless in a place with designated truck routes. Signs like that are very common in New York, where there is a large nework of state-recognized truck routes.
The angle of it, though, is intriguing. If I were a truck on that street facing that sign, wouldn't it be indicating that I wasn't on the truck route yet?
Not really. It's indicating which way to go. No different than approaching an intersection where a route sign points you in different directions for the route...it doesn't mean you're not on that route yet.
The 3 arrow truck route signs seem a bit meaningless at first, but it's also reassurance that the truck is permitted on all legs of the intersection.